“Interdicting exports cuts off revenue and reduces the adversary’s ability to fund the war, pay salaries, support its population, or fill other functions,” said Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank.
She noted that the U.S. blockade when confined to the Middle East “met the requirements for a legal blockade, under international law.”
But, Kavanagh said: “The expansion of the blockade to the global level does not meet these standards.”
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