"Exercises" and "Drills". Is there more to the Suez Canal blockage than they are telling us?

Group Arabian Sea Warfare Exercise 21 Underway in U.S. 5th Fleet

ARABIAN SEA - France, Belgium, Japan and the U.S. are participating in Group Arabian Sea Warfare Exercise (GASWEX) 21, a multilateral maritime exercise in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman.

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