Charting totally dysfunctional box lines
…and the weapon of mass destruction
It started with a video of US embarrassment from the Pentagon, shared by Mr Blue, essentially contrasting the Russia-Ukraine conflict against how to deal with the Gaza situation. These two distinct events presented as being totally unrelated in the way, ethically, we ought to think about them.
Regardless of that, you probably know I am not into politics. But politics shape and drive supply chain considerations, especially at the moment.
And freight rates both in air and ocean have been broadly depressed ...
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