if the answer isn't "blockade it and seize every non-US vessel until we get what we want, and keep up a bombardment campaign the like of which the world has never dreamed", it's not going to be a long term solution.
And he doesn't even know how to apply that properly. If you're going to be a bully and use hard power, you have to exercise said hard power against anyone who argues.
Yes, because it was designed to appeal to "people" (executives, the rich, and all the other guillotine fodder) who are used to always being told that they're right.
Oh good. Are we going to go back in? Or are we just going to choke them economically?