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But it didn't work. Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea weren't ended by that strike. They didn't stop until the Gaza ceasefire was entered into:
You have the cause and effect all wrong. The Houthis stopped when the Iranians told them to. And they'll start when the Iranians told them to.
We could have done the same thing with Maduro. Impose a full blockade of oil tankers - and then offer to release the sanctions against Venezuela and remove all the pressure to have him step down? Just in exchange for having us volunteer to be his broker? He would have taken that deal in a heartbeat.
How do you know that? The point of some of these actions is getting rid of the hard core losers and replacing them with people who are more pliable, like Delcy.
Wonder why Iran's President is still breathing? We've had ample opportunities to whack that guy and yet he's not only been seen and heard, he's been out in public.
Why do you think that is?
Because we don't "control" their oil flows. We're acting as Venezuela's oil brokers, selling them to whoever wants to buy them.
Oh, we don't control their oil, just tell them who they can sell it to out in the open. Distinction without difference.
But soft power is boring and doesn't make for exciting press conferences or use the word "warfighters" the way big military operations or special forces missions do.
Yeah, we're not doing *any* diplomacy work at all. Just bombing the sh1t out of people.
