Royal Caribbean suddenly cuts 20 cruises just days after Carnival canceled 11 sailings, report says

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9. Yes but this time

there are actual hostilities going on in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, with purported "drug boats" being blown out of the water in both locations.

You also have a U.S. aircraft carrier (docked in Greece at Crete for repairs) and its group in the Mediterranean and Red Sea (and some of the cancelled cruises were in that area, where an Iranian missile hit Cyprus).

Reduce the ships and you reduce the risk that an errant missile that someone figures fell "harmlessly" in the water, actually hits one of those ships. That is the whole issue with the Strait of Hormuz.