I don’t understand how in the realm of hourly war crimes against humanity, attacking a trade route is seen as a controversial tactic when it’s quite a common tactic used by literally every nation with a semblance of an armed forces, for as far back as historically recorded warfare.

Even the USA enforces naval blockades all the time by seizing tankers. You just don’t see any bullets fired because no one wants to fight the US navy.

Further, their aggression towards cargo ships is particularly problematic since this is likely to lead to 20+ day shipment delays on supplies of all types which could be vital and also closes off low margin shipments to places which may not have many options.

Israel was notably affected with a port closing due to this exact scenario, but more importantly, it directly affected the trade of Israel’s primary military sponsor, the USA.

afaik, no deaths have occurred due to the US spending a tremendous amount of time and money intercepting missiles, and because even the ships that were hit sustained medium damage due to the nature of anti ship missiles usually needing several to sink a ship.

Federation.

There’s a reason why worldnews@lemmy.world and worldnews@lemmy.ml are not federated with eachother, yet lots of users are subscribed to both.

If I understand it correctly, Lemmy has a similar “landed gentry” moderation scheme, where the first to create a community control it. This was easily exploited on other platforms, particularly in regards to astroturfing, censorship, and controlling a narrative.

For lemmy, it’s again a federation thing. You just don’t see many multiple defederated examples due to the small user count.

It’s not the most optimal solution, but it’s still miles better than dealing with single instance or single community issues.

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