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It's crazy how Iran deciding to start taking fees for shipping is a blockade, when the entire national business models of Singapore and Panama hinge on their ability to do exactly this.
No no, you see, if the middle east does it then it's terrorism. If we or anyone we like does it then it's the free market.
Agreed on Singapore, but Panama is a little different. There is infrastructure and labor that needs to be done to transit.
Panama makes some sense, because of the loch system. Each ship that passes takes a lot of their drinking water, and they don't need to bomb ships to stop them passing.
It helps to know the history of Panama. Namely, how it exists because an independence group was sponsored by the US to break away from Honduras, because that group would then give the US better terms for using the soon-to-be-constructed canal.
Ask Noriega about that.