Do the math. Two million or so folks in Tripoli, a large metropolitan city which has no indigenous food/water supply.
Two million people need how much food, water, medical supplies, on a daily basis, to be happy and productive?
International assets are already frozen, and could, for example, be earmarked for humanitarian relief to the east (but not to the west), so trade, and especially new weapons, will be chaotic at best, begging the question of whether even a naval blockade is critical. If no access to global credit, what shipments need to be intercepted?
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