True. But it keeps happening.

Be it two thousand years ago or 500 years ago. Sexy armor proves that humans haven’t really changed.

Kings and generals don’t really find themselves alone on the front lines. The armor is nearly ceremonial, no one is supposed to take a shot at the king. Even if the king were expected to visit the front lines.

As such, kings, princes and other nobles never had practical armor. It’s all armor-fashion and status symbols (including sexualization, when said sexualization was in fashion).

I raise you Emperor Ferdinand I Armor, specifically it’s Codpiece.

I’m just saying. Sexualized armor is very historical.

And my point is that effects are often deflationary. IE: The great depression dropped the price of goods.

That means when one country has an isolated recession or isolated depression, its something the rest of the world could easily benefit from. Its not all bad. The full effects are extremely unpredictable, and assuming worst-case scenario over-and-over is counterproductive.

Then “why are gas prices through the roof?”

You mean, “Why are gas prices so damn low?”, because a giant economic recession in China will CUT gasoline prices as huge swaths of Chinese citizens run out of money for gasoline cars and switch to busses or other cheaper forms of transit.

Economic calamity causes lower gasoline prices typically.

Its not all bad. The real issue is that bad loans can be transferred to other countries through unknown means. Ex: Apple may have had some Evergrande bonds for some real estate issue in China, and then Apple suddenly loses a lot of money affecting S&P500 funds and then cutting people’s 401k accounts or something.

But economic calamity == less consumption of gasoline (fewer trips, fewer vacations, fewer cruises) == lower gas prices typically. As some people like to point out: all an economic recession is, is when the value of cash grows dramatically (meaning the value of everything else: vacation packages, luxury cars, technology, etc. etc. declines). This “everything else” includes oil, because when no one is going on vacation, oil builds up faster than we can use it.

We don’t have to bomb them to extinction. We just need to bomb them so that they can’t threaten the Red Sea with cruise missiles or drones.

This is a group with ships, helicopters, cruise missiles, anti-air, and drones. They’re “large” enough to have legitimate military targets for us to disrupt. Every cruise missile we blow up of theirs is one fewer missile for them to launch into the Red Sea.

EDIT: In particular, all we gotta do is sit there, watch our RADAR. Whenever they launch a cruise missile at the Red Sea, we launch an attack back and kill those people. Eventually they’ll run out of missile-launchers (or people brave enough to push the launch missile button). If that’s a “never”, then I guess we keep patrolling the Red Sea from here on out, but it seems like a rather straightforward, low-risk mission to me. The main risks are the possibility that someone on board of our Destroyers / Cruisers gets complacent and lets a cruise missile through to actually take a hit. But given our anti-air capabilities and RADAR to detect enemy missiles, it seems unlikely that this would happen.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but consider another story.

LiFePo4 cells from China could be stalled due to Red Sea traffic, and going around Cape-of-Africa is about 1-week longer than through the Suez Canal. And 1-week shipment delay could lead to 2-week production delays in practice depending on how various logistical details line up.

But yes. Tesla famously removed RADAR and Ultrasonics from their cars two years ago in response to supply-chain disruptions. They were the “never stop production” companies, keep producing at all costs no matter what. Its a bit strange to me that they think that things will slow down in this case.

There’s good reason to believe that Elon Musk is truly worried about collapsing European demand due to the union issues. And is instead using the Red Sea attacks as an excuse to blame someone else for the shutdown.

The artillery rounds are the main thing needed in any case.

I’m surprised we still have Stinger missiles to give. I was hearing reports that our stockpiles of those are pretty bad.