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minus-squarepikl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoAnd how do you suppose you close an entire waterway without killing anyone? You sit in canoes with a stick and tell people to pay the toll?
minus-squarebuddascrayon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoIt’s called a blockade. And the U.S. has a long history of using it.
minus-squarepikl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 hour agoWhich is enforced by threat of force using warships and/or troops that will ask for tolls I guess…
And how do you suppose you close an entire waterway without killing anyone? You sit in canoes with a stick and tell people to pay the toll?
It’s called a blockade. And the U.S. has a long history of using it.
Which is enforced by threat of force using warships and/or troops that will ask for tolls I guess…