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Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a research institute that favors restraint in foreign policy, said Europe had, indeed, gotten a free ride on American military power. But she added that the Europeans had decided they could absorb the extra shipping costs and that a big military effort against the Houthis was probably not worth it.
“The United States shouldn’t be taking military action in the Red Sea — even if Europe continues to refrain from doing so,” she said.
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