By Bombing the Houthis, America is Also Pressuring China
Liberating international shipping isn’t the campaign’s only benefit.
March 21, 2025
And the tax windfall it could generate.
Earlier this week, Google announced that it had agreed to acquire the Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz—which offers essential services to companies employing large and complex software—for $32 billion. It marks, by far, Google’s largest acquisition ever, and the largest ever acquisition of an Israeli-founded company. (Wiz is based in the United States, though its founders and many of its employees are Israeli.) Sharon Wrobel examines the deal’s background and consequences:
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Login or SubscribeLiberating international shipping isn’t the campaign’s only benefit.
A perversion of reason and a rejection of human decency.
Not a description of what was, but a prediction of what will be.
And the tax windfall it could generate.
It’s 1,600 years old and just outside Rome.