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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45055501
March 26, 2026
https://archive.ph/3k5rEThe blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages.
Many ambulances are parked because drivers can’t find gas. Pharmacies are largely empty because the virtually bankrupt state is struggling to buy medicine.
Production of medicine has been mostly halted because factories run on diesel. Vaccine makers are searching for ingredients because flights that once carried them are canceled because of a lack of jet fuel. And refrigerated vaccine stocks could soon spoil if the blackouts continue.
My opinion: one may not like a country, one may even oppose its existence, but one should not try choking it to death.
Blockade is usually considered an “act of war”. That is, something comparable to war.