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)
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.
Is that a surprise? You've been calling me 'retarded' for years, after all.
Well... you may have many faults, but not being unduly optimistic is not one of them.
By the way, you didn't answer my question from a while ago.
How many boosters did you get? That's really all anybody here needs to know about you.