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Blockades and strategic bombing of German oil refineries left the Wehrmacht with fuel shortages by 1945 and without key inputs to build munitions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Blockades are also taking place at several border crossings with Ukraine.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2024
Blockades also severed more than a dozen other highways, Vinci said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Blockades of the U.S.-Canada border stymied flows of critical supplies for the fourth day on Friday, leaving companies scrambling for materials and shutting down major auto factories from Ontario to Alabama.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022
Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
