A unilateral blockade.
Nuclear weapons cannot be used for most conflicts.
But about 30 middle East countries discovered they can bring the highly leveraged US to their knees by mining/drone attacking the two middle east shipping chokepoints.
Strait of Hormuz — Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates; very near: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq
Bab el-Mandeb — Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea; very near: Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, Oman
(maybe add the straits of singapore too)
No. Anyone whose idiotic socialist government made them dependent on external energy needs the strait open. Or anyone whose economy depends on selling oil to the aforementioned idiots.
Oh. So a little thing called the “petrodollar”? kek
Yes that's my point.
This weakens the petrodollar and demonstrates the foolishness of using it.
Israel doesn't care about that, they're perfectly content with sacrificing this entire country if it means getting their stupid "greater israel project" started.
They care very much about it. They invented it, it's the foundation of the globalist banking system they use for controlling a lot of things, and they've spent decades propping it up.
Throwing away their fraudulent system chasing maximalist goals benefits pretty much everyone.
Pedodollar is more valuable anyway
There's not much of a difference between 'external energy' and 'internal energy'. You're still paying $200 a barrel if the price skyrockets. Problem is, you just don't understand economics.
There's an enormous difference. Firstly being resiliency. This isn't hard, so either you're dumber than I thought or you're just feigning ignorance again.
Yes, I'm talking about economic effects. You need to pay for oil at the world market price regardless of whether the oil is external or internal. I guess you may advocate socialism and confiscation in cases of emergency, hence your resiliency, but other than that, I guess I'm too dumb to see your great points.
Yes, you are too dumb to understand what I'm saying.
I'm celebrating the newest step in dissolving the idiotic concept of "the world market price."
And you're blithering on about it as if it was an insoluble surety. You're literally declaring that the status quo must be the status quo because it's the status quo.
While most of those governments are indeed made up of idiotic globalist socialists, they didn't have much choice. Not every country has oil that they can simply pump out of the ground.
They had a choice to shutter their nuclear plants.
True, but closing the straight still creates oil scarcity, which universally drives up prices. Great for American oil producers and the American government, but still shitty for Americans