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I mean... disrupting international trade is just asking for trouble.
That's not even a "capitalism bad" thing; it's just a matter of fact that safe international trade needs to be a thing in order to have a global economy
Yemen has the right to embargo whoever they want from using their waters.
This isn't Yemen, it's the Houthis. AFAIK, the internationally recognized State of Yemen isn't involved.
We're talking international shipping routes. What the Houthi movement is engaging in is piracy, plain and simple.