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The Bab-el-Mandeb has tons of ships in it, and as far as I know the only ones Ansar Allah have attacked are the ones who have ignored their very clear criteria.

It’s incredible to watch in near-real-time how hollowed out the US’s ability to project its will has become. They announced Operation Prosperity Guardian, and within days it seemed to collapse. Looks like there aren’t many folks signing up to be vassal states these days.

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It’s such a cringe name, I wonder if that hurt the adoption. I think the real issue is that the Operation gives a bit too much power to the US to direct the participants. There is cooperation and then there is subordination.

> It’s such a cringe name, I wonder if that hurt the adoption.

Yeah, because governments make critical decisions about their economic and security interests based on how cringe the name a given operation has.

I work a lot with governments and from my experience naming matters a lot, way more than it should. They’re basically always in campaign mode even when they’re in power. Often the first question is what will people think when they hear the name of the project. Most people don’t read briefs so often their entire perception is from the title and what they’ve been told to think about it by others. I’ve had to kill projects due to too much time taken up in committees over the damn name of the thing.

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