blockade
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Mr. Booker recounts how Robert Smalls ingeniously snuck a boat with both fellow slaves and arms past a Confederate blockade.
Qatar has navigated strains before, including a yearslong blockade by neighboring states that forced it to draw on sovereign reserves, maintain liquidity and recalibrate regional ties.
“This appears to be driven by heightened tensions and precautionary decisions by ship operators and insurers rather than a confirmed physical blockade by Iran.”
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would be “very much a last resort,” Parmar says.
The economics points to three principles, none of which involves naval blockades.
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