Ah they're attacking civilians because their feelings on attacking civilians are so strong they'll do anything to stop it. Like attack civilians.
Literally any other course of action for their "protest" would be better. What they're doing is abhorrent, like Hamas, like Israel.
Ironically demonstrating why the EU needs to invest more in defences. Cyber and physical
If you let them do this with no response every idiot nation with a coastline is going to think shooting civilian sailors is a good way to get shit done.
Allowing them to get away with it is escalatory for the world.
If its indistinguishable from random attacks to the victims and anyone else at sea the (internationally coordinated) response should be one appropriate to random attacks on sea vessels
The russian oil tanker?
It's not a blockade as they're no where near Israel. They don't have the ability to enforce a blockade of Israel, just to attack random ships
The action of attacking random ships in international waters?
This is piracy, and it puts huge numbers of civilian lives at direct risk and increases the chance someone else will also do it in future.
The entire international community has a duty to stop this by almost any means.
Their reasons for attacking civilian shipping in international waters could not be less important to the situation.
I agree with this but also I'm not sure if this isn't already a proxy war with iran-russia, and it also seems to benefit china too.
And even if netanyahu wasn't an arse, he's totally reliant on some awful people to stay in power, and out of prison, for however long he can manage both.
Pushing back publically against his actions now is equivalent to demanding regime change in Israel and while I think it would be a good thing I can see why geopolitically it's difficult for the US to do.
The requirement to adopt the euro is not something that can be forced. You can agree to do it eventually when you join, when any country joins, but the EU would never kick a country out of the EU unless they moved to the euro at a specific time.
The UK will one day rejoin, will agree to one day use the euro and then like many other countries in the EU will never use the euro
Someone will have to be there still, but they can do more useful things than sit in a box staring at signals
Also not sure why firing at military vessels is worse than firing at civilians