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minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·edit-211 months agoAFAIK they didn’t kill anyone. They’re also pretty clear about their condition for allowing ships to pass. Shooting violators is just how you enforce a blockade; it’s what the British did against the Germans.
minus-squareGBU_28@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-211 months agoAnd that’s a good thing, but if you attack ships with people on them, you’ve endangered them. Via some bad luck they could have killed people. Also the waters are shared and highly contested, so the blockade isn’t clean. And as I said ultimately you can only have a blockade if you can enforce it. Day by day it is becoming clear they cannot.
AFAIK they didn’t kill anyone. They’re also pretty clear about their condition for allowing ships to pass.
Shooting violators is just how you enforce a blockade; it’s what the British did against the Germans.
And that’s a good thing, but if you attack ships with people on them, you’ve endangered them. Via some bad luck they could have killed people.
Also the waters are shared and highly contested, so the blockade isn’t clean.
And as I said ultimately you can only have a blockade if you can enforce it. Day by day it is becoming clear they cannot.