Macron says it is unrealistic to open Hormuz Strait by force

He who controls the Epstein Files controls the United States.

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it"

Let's see; disgusting fat lump of flesh, fucks kids, has a crush on his own daughter, aspirations to rule the world, believes that might is right, and has the backing of all the major US companies... Holy shit, he's Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.

Man. If only we had invested in green energy to kick our dependence on fossil fuels and eliminated the petro-nations' soft power over the world economy. Maybe we even could have been the dominant force in green science and tech and sold that energy independence globally. But who could possibly have foreseen that?

My Gulf, My Straight, My oil

Never forget the golden rule whoever has the gold makes the rules

Trump does look like a orange harkonen

Just now realized that a throwaway line from Rick and Morty S1 is referencing this quote. “He who controls the pants controls the galaxy” I don’t know why I felt like sharing this

Don't forget you gave Russia billions by lifting sanctions on Russian Oil.

With friends like these, huh? This is likely the beginning of the end of the petro dollar, as well as the beginning of normalizing relations between Europe and Iran. Not to mention, there is now a more hardline Supreme Leader and IRGC command, who likely will even further pivot towards ballistic missile development. Oh, and let's not forget the gulf countries, basically up the creek without a paddle and potentially in for a rough ride and could be overthrown in the near future. Mission accomplished! Great job.

Trump basically clogged the toilet taking a shit, flooded the bathroom and started telling everyone else they need to go clean it up.

Never play chess with a pigeon  They will shit on the board and strut around like they have won

The next step is to blame Europe for not spending more money on defense, when we have to spend an enormous amount of money to deal with the mess the US created.

> “well you all need to figure this out yourselves” 100% sure if they do figured it out trump won't be happy with it.

> expect others to clear up his mess. Not even that -- he won't give it a single wandering thought unless he starts blaming Biden or perhaps Obama for it.

Larger tankers can carry 2-3 million barrels of oil. So it would add about a dollar to the price of each barrel of oil passing through.

It's easily payable. The cost will get passed on to consumers. It will increase Iran's GDP by like 25%, too. ART OF THE DEAL, FOLKS

It’s about 2%

About 215 Million USD, the supertankers carry about 2 million barrels of oil.

According to google a large tanker can transport ~2 million barrels, current market price 109USD per barrel = total value ~218 million usd, 2 mil fee /218 total tanker oil value ≈ 0.92% price, roundup to 1% increased cost Bear in mind this % increases as the cost of oil decreases

It's a precedent we can't allow to take place, freedom of navigation and all. It can spiral completely out of control. At the same time, force is not needed. Without the US/Israel bombing, there isn't much bargaining friction. A long time ago, couple of months back, they used to be open.

There are 3 countries at the waters of the strait. Iran claimed that the strait belongs to it, including the waters at UAE and Oman and wants to charge the world for using it without Oman's approval or UAE's approval. So, a country like Kuwait or Bahrain that build oil facilities, buy expensive equipment, pay salaries for many employees and spend a lot of time to extract the oil, and Iran gets a cut of that just to not shoot the ships carrying it. Kuwait and Bahrain has no alternative sea routes than to pass through the strait. Charging ships will increase the price of the product for the rest of the world. Besides, Iran isn't allowing the other countries in the region to use it no matter what.

Not everything is a "distraction". Have you considered the fact that he's both implicated heavily in the files and has been on camera saying very nasty and vile things several times about children, AND he's also just an evil war criminal that seeks to do nothing but enrich himself and his buddies with insider trading by causing global chaos AND he's likely following orders from Israel / Russia to disrupt global peace and order? There can be simultaneous forms of evil, you know. He isn't pretending to be a war criminal to distract from his pedophile implications. He's just both at once. I'm so sick of people trying to downplay what he's doing to the global order and global economies by acting like he's just a silly little guy doing this as a stunt to distract from a domestic issue and he doesn't actually intend to hurt the global economy, he just wants the news to focus on something else! No. He wants to destroy the global economy and he wants to get away with his association with Jeffrey Epstein and child sex trafficking. Both things are true and both things are evil..one isn't a """DiStRacTioN!!!!!" From the other thing

It’s a mature adult approach. The civilized approach. Breaking things is easy, fighting is easy, too. Anyone can sabre-rattle. Stupid people can do it all day every day. 

>The entire world is suffering because a whole nation was stupid enough to elect this person for A F****** SECOND TIME!!

Jesus Christ, why don’t you grow up and start reading grown up news. No, this isn’t a “distraction”. There’s an alignment between incompetent hawks in the administration and certain Israeli interests. Trump is a decrepit narcissist who is easy to manipulate by them. The war is a MUCH BIGGER political risk for Trump et all than the files are. None of the people taking us to war give a single shit about the files. Edit: OP gets it, I was being shrill

"it's safe, oil tankers, trust me! You just have to have some guts and go through!" -Trump  "Heck no we're not escorting any tankers through! It's not safe!" -US Military

Surprised that someone didn't tell the carrier to adopt a Warrior mindset and just do it.

Doesn't Europe get only 4% from that area ? So it is not going to be paying much ... The prices are rising because other producers are charging more because there is more demand from people that got the stuff from here.

Why do people think Europe is reliant on oil and gas from Hormuz? Have you seen a map? It's going the opposite direction. The issue here isn't all the oil and gas Europe gets from Hormuz, it's that since all oil and gas is sold on the global market, this shortage affects prices for everyone.

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Almost certainly. Thanks Trump for the extra costs and making it necessary to send even more funds to extremist regimes. Good job /s. 

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step 1 would be to destroy the other guy's navy without having a navy of your own but also Odessa doesn't have Russia sitting 100 miles on the other side of the Black Sea, so Ukrainians have experience but it's not 100% relevant

The strait is really narrow. It's 55 km at minimum. You can't defend it perfectly if the other country launches hundreds of low cost drones that you can't intercept. Ukraine can't block everything with drones that flew hundreds of km. It will cost way more than just giving money to let it pass.

Most part of the safety is because they are going thru NATO corridor Romania>Bulgaria>Turkey.

Offset only by the emissions from the war itself

More like a few 100 miles. 26 is probably just the strait (?) but if they can hit Qatar or UAE, they can hit boats in the Persian Gulf.

It's also worth mentioning how tankers full of oil or LPG are, kinda flammable.. So while you might need a hundreds of Shaheds to take down a carrier, which the US doesn't even dare to send, a single one hitting an LPG vessel could be a total calamity.

Thanks to Trump they have so much more leverage now than before the war. Sure, they could've blocked it anytime but there was no reason. Now, its their only weapon and, like you said, can be wielded cheaply with drone threats.

Surely the renowned military genius Gen Bone Spurs can invent an innovative solution.

it's not just that they've been preparing for decades, it's that drone tech makes what they're doing infinitely easier than any other time in history