The thing is, it's usually true. Even when it's not hard it's often complicated - just think about climate change over the last several decades, for example. I don't envy politicians, who have to keep everyone distracted and happy while their staffers do the real work. They seem to enjoy the gig though.
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Lol, you really don't like the Houthis. Why do you care? It's a little ethnic paramilitary, like a bajillion others all across the MENA area and other unstable regions.
No, I'd say they should keep parking warships in the area and eating all the missiles. It's expensive as all get out, but said Gulf contries would be obliterated by mass bombardment on the first day if the region really goes boom, and a few more weeks to let things settle and ship Anthony Blinken around would have been great.
The funny thing is, after a while you get used to it, and are just as breathtaken when you get to see a distant horizon again.
And I, at least, agree with Uncle Sam there. Do we really want WWIII over a stupid symbolic declaration?
No. The Soviets had one that was basically C but a decade early called Адрес (address). The higher-ups were skeptical of the concept of computers, though, so computing in the USSR languished anyway.
I think the Chinese have something going too. Mostly educated global people know some English anyway, though.
I, too, ate the spicy danger oats.
Fun fact: You have to give PII including street address to get a refund, and they reserve the right to do whatever they want with it as per their privacy policy.
That doesn't actually undercut my point. Yes, they carry important crap for the West too, and some amount amount of crap not ultimately for the West. It would still get there going via the Cape, and either way, the stakes are way higher for the Arabs than "more expensive stuff" and everyone knows it.
Escalate to what? They're already doing all kinds of pirate stuff, and I don't think they're strong enough to threaten anything else the West cares about on their own. What seems like the obvious Western play would be to keep intercepting attacks from warships for at least a few weeks. It's more expensive, but would give critical time to deal with all the other, bigger issues in the Middle East.
What are you talking about? We do have several surviving codices from the pre-Columbian Americas.
Exactly. I would fully support expanding welfare and funding the shit out of Ukraine, and then raising upper tax brackets to pay for it all (in my country or theirs). I doubt OP does, so obviously money's not the real problem.
Well you're in luck then, because I don't think it is either. Maybe they'd have a leg to stand on if they were actually Israeli ships, but it sounds like they've been attacking random ones and then declaring them Israeli. It's a stunt, and now the West is making it look even better.