📝 🚢 🇺🇸 "This is genuinely one of the prime signs of a collapsing imperial order; the trade routes aren't safe any more."

🔶️ "It's a telling day when one of the world's largest container companies effectively says that the Red Sea isn't safe for commercial shipping -- despite the presence of TWO American aircraft carrier groups in the Mediterranean / Persian Gulf region"

🔶️ "Tellingly, too, is the fact that five -- 5 !!! -- nations have military bases in Djibouti, on the mouth of the Red Sea, within striking distance of the shipping incidents: the US, China, Japan, France and Italy (and Spain, UK and Germany typically have deployed planes there, too)"