If you shoot missiles at civilian ships, then you die. Even if you are allies of Hamas and Iran. It is a good policy.
will push up prices of consumer goods in Europe in particular
Oh, yeah, the dead children, of course they're important. Way more important, of course. But yeah like I was sayin, this consumer prices is really a bitch, we gotta get down there
Would you care to demonstrate the connection of stopping the Houthis attacking random ships in the Red Sea with dead children?
What I meant by that was:
Dead Palestinian children? Oh no please stop we'll send Blinken down, we gotta do something, I don't know, what do you want to do, this is a pretty thorny issue. I'm not really sure what we could do though. (It could be also be dead Kurds or Iraqis or any number of people who weren't doing anything; it's not unique to the Gaza situation)
More expensive stuff for us? Warships and bombs, right away. Sort that shit out. Don't even wait for congress. Just bombs.
I get that it's not as simple as taking the motivation from #2 and switching it over to happen any time there's a #1. I'm being a little unfairly reductive you could say. But also, that is exactly the behavior and it's hard not to be struck by it.
No children involved in shipping nor would be saved by stopping it.
Makes sense. Their tiny hands cant handle the weight of the cargo.
If you shoot missiles at civilian ships, then you die. Even if you are allies of Hamas and Iran. It is a good policy.