The Brits enforced their blockade, stopping ships and searching for contraband (and contraband had a pretty broad definition...).
The Germans started and stopped unrestricted submarine warfare at least twice.
The object of a war is to win. The only effect these stupid ‘humanitarian’ rules have had is make it impossible to win a war and to extend the duration and suffering of the war.
IF you can no longer feed your civilians, YOU HAVE LOST THE WAR. Ask for terms.
Wonder why Pat focuses on Yemen, and not North Korea.
The British prevented American companies from selling FOOD in Germany; that was considered “contraband”. In the meantime, when the Lusitania was sunk it contained arms - and the German embassy in NY warned passengers embarking on it that the ship was a target because of those weapons.
I live within a dozen miles of TWO sites used by the US to violate our neutrality in WWI - Black Tom Island in Jersey City and the “Canadian Car and Foundry Company” in Lyndhurst NJ. Both were destroyed by pro-German saboteurs (though the Lyndhurst incident is less clear), and both were providing weapons to kill German troops before our entry into the war. Our neutrality was a hoax, exposed when we had to engineer an excuse to enter the war when Russia fell. There was plenty of justification for the Zimmermann telegram, considering our “un-neutral” actions; it was a convenient excuse for war (along with the Lusitania lie).