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[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

there's no way that israel is more strategically important to the west than the suez canal

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They're joined at the hip. The Israelis control a number of ports that load and unload cargo off the Suez. And some of the more notable Zionists are international shipping magnets.

Israel exists, in no small part, as a dagger to the neck of the Egyptian government, to prevent another Nasser from taking office. It is a means by which western states exert diplomatic, economic, and military control over the canal.

But the Yemenese aren't threatening the Sinai Peninsula. They're guarding the gates to the Red Sea all the way down by Djiabouti. That's something Saudi Arabia was supposed to manage, and they've pooched it. So now the Americans are being forced to take a direct hand in a conflict that they'd invested trillions of dollars expecting proxies to handle.

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