So what I find interesting is that this exact story was reported in CTV like a week ago, but in this one, the reasoning has changed somehow?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/stop-sending-butt-plugs-to-bahrain-toronto-sex-store-receives-letters-from-us-department-of-war/

Originally reported, the problem was that Bahrain does not allow adult items to be shipped to them. But the adult shop said that it actually doesn't ship to Bahrain and most of Asia because of rules like that making it more complicated to do business. Owner said that it was likely forwarded to a base (so a third party shipper, something the shop has zero control over.)

But in this one, the rationale has changed to "these objects are dangerous", and I don't see focus being placed on the third-party seller shipper.

edit: shipper, not seller. We don't know if this was after market, just that it's not directly shipped. They might actually have some amount of control over that, if that's the case, because they would have needed to label the original package as being shipped to Bahrain.

The more I think about this story, the more I think that it's being ramped up as a "look how the US military is interfering with canada on behalf of a middle eastern country!" instead of like "someone made a mistake by ordering something not allowed in Bahrain, and the business didn't check whether they were allowed to ship it there or not." I dont get what the big deal here is. This actually kinda looks bad on the business now that I take a second look at it.