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I actually didn’t know that about fertilizer, very interesting I’ll have to look into that. I think regime change would be a good thing but I don’t think it’ll be easy and would likely require boots on the ground as they say.
Maybe you could really decimate the country with bombs enough to weaken the ruling power so that the people can revolt, but presumably you run the risk of destabilizing the whole thing into chaos and large terrorist groups take power and it’s even worse than it was.
Because it's not true, nitrogen typically gets fixed from the air via the Haber Bosch process into ammonia for fertilizer, which specifically uses methane, aka natural gas, to produce hydrogen, not crude oil. I dunno how much natural gas exactly gets shipped on freight ships, but I'm pretty confident it's a tiny fraction compared to what goes through fixed pipelines. You do need phosphates for fertilizer too, and a sizable amount of phosphate salts are shipped from north Africa, but that only makes phosphate a shipping problem going China's way, not to us.
The correct element is sulfur.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/ugvskk/eli5_how_is_petroleum_used_to_make_fertilizer/
I doubt we will trust that area anytime soon. This makes me think of all the replaced by clone theories.