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The west should not protect merchant ships from Houthi drone attacks in the Red Sea. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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US and other Nato countries should not bother with protecting merchant ships attacked in the Red sea. The shipping companies have to rely on the navies of their flag states for protection. The 10 largest flag states for shipping are:

Panama, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malta, Bahamas, China, Greece, Japan

Hong Kong is now China. But there is still an independent shipping tax haven there. The shipping companies avoiding taxes in western countries does not deserve protection from the same countries.

They can get a return of the tax money by letting the mentionee countries send their navies. Greece is a NATO country, so NATO can participate to some degree with support to the flag state navies.

*Guess this was a popular opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right idea , wrong solution maybe ?

Everything you’ve said about flags of convenience is true. In addition, it helps the shipper circumvent labour laws and pay proper wages.

On the other hand, I can’t really support putting those ships at risk and the the lives of the people on them. The west maintains expensive forces for reasons just such as this.

Plus, if we suddenly stop getting cheap shit by the boat load, the world grinds to a halt, literally.

So, good idea, wrong solution because the price of it is too high, given the dependencies in place .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Im actually a surprised how much this hot downvoted. Its either incredible popular, or this place is a carbon copy of reddit where only popular opinions get upvotes.

Unpopular opinion: Trump is not suited as president.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm not who you're replying to, and I certainly haven't downvoted you. I don't downvote people for having a different opinion. Downvotes are for posts that actively poison conversation or where posters are treating others poorly.

However, your cited problem and suggested solution appear to be lacking in larger understandings of geopolitics and global commerce.