It’s just we let international shipping become a tangled mess under US driven deregulation, and as long as it’s just basic worker and human rights of sailors were affected we didn’t give a shit, but now that this Cold War II idiocy is coming, it’s biting us in the ass.

It’s like the whole US ideological system and everything that was influenced by it assumed only corporations and the wealthy would be abusing the lack of sensible regulations, not hostile nation states.