EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas: Iran's control of Strait of Hormuz is 'everybody's problem' and could lead to a 'dangerous slippery slope'

The price is the death of freedom of navigation as a principle of maritime law. That’s a substantial cost. The current US administration seems incapable of understanding anything more complex or longer term than a single transaction however.

Well more like military intervention> no toll but cost of intervention vs open strait + toll. I mean USA and Israel should be ones paying toll on all ships as reparations for f****** up so massively

That is not how free works. The price of oil will always be raised because of accounting for the toll, just because they come down from the strait being closed does not mean the toll doesn’t raise the price past what it could be otherwise.

so the answer is NO proof.

Disagree.

Well the world is guilty of lack of imagination. That’s true.

Yeah and that’s where I disagree. We ignore the elephant in the room because we are worried that the dog diarrhoea’d on the carpet. Let me clean that dogshit up. No one is mentioning the mounds of elephant shit that has dried over the last few years.

It’s not. My frustration is with people and governments who continue to accept US supremacy.

So your take is, I can come into your house. Take a shit on the carpet. Piss on your plants. You are mad and making a noise. But because I have now exited the house, you should shut up?

All classified by US which refuses to use the same barometer to measure own and Israeli aggression

Nope. I refuse to classify Iran as terrorist if US and its allies are responsible for more civilian deaths in the contemporary history.

I do not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine either. But Iran supplying weapons to Russia ain’t the same scale as the amount of destabilisation that US has done for a long time. And getting away with it.

Yep.

I don’t know of a single country that can have the president and their sons indulge in open market manipulation and threats and enriching themselves but still pretend to be a country. Wait I do recall Saddam Hussein and his Sons doing something similar ….

Renewables just simply can't move ships, with current technology that is. Our world is reliant on ships and sea travel. Nuclear is too dangerous and expensive solar is not efficient enough yet Batteries are too heavy and not good enough to last for month long trips Biofuels help, but they don't really fix the pollution problem. Also biofuels are expensive compared to heavy oil. Wind works, but its too slow.

Yeah sure, investments dont move things from A to B. Ships do that. Guess what, they rely on fossil fuels and they dont have a safe, c**** and fast alternative

Except this war with Iran has strengthened Russia.... The oil trade embargo on Russia has been lifted / relaxed so now Russia has had a flood of income it wasn't going to get till the USA and Israel fucked everything up for everyone. Tell me how attacking Iran has hurt Russia and made Europe and Ukraine stronger?

Iran provided Shahed drones, but doesn't Russia produce them domestically now? I suspect Iran providing less support to Russia won't have much of an impact. We also now see the US claiming shortages of patriot interceptors due to the sudden spike in usage and demand from this war, which will quite likely be used by Trump and Vance as an excuse to reduce supply of those to Ukraine. Currently looks like Iran could come out of this better off geopolitically than before it started. If it can toll the strait, it might even come out better off economically. In addition, it now has battle tested it's own tactics and technology and can begin adjusting strategies accordingly. The only way this would have panned out differently would be if a full scale invasion took place. Given thay the two primary aggressors didn't seem to have any interest in putting an invasion force on the ground, why should anyone else have chosen to do so?

The harm Israel and the US are causing isn't a threat limited to the EU but world wide in regards to Economy and Security (Israel and US cannot be trusted and thus pose a real Security risk). Funny enough Russia benefits in the meantime from this. So sanctions against US and Israel would be the first thing to do, while strengthening defense capabilities (especially Anti Air) at the same time. It's the logical thing to do, really, given that the actions of the US and Israel are what directly caused the worsening for everybody in regards to the strait.

Russia borders several European countries. Iran is far away. Yes, they've been supporting Russia But think about it this way, if Russia is defeated, Iran won't be a direct threat to Europe. If Iran is defeated, Russia will continue to be a threat... In this sense, Iran doesn't matter much

Iran is sharing the Strait with Oman. That was in their own proposal. And they're being fired upon! That's what precipitated the whole situation. It's like the US firing upon Canada and them going well since y'all need this f****** Strait, pay us to fix all this havoc you created.