With Iran and Israel in full-on war, the world’s energy nerves are fraying. Central to this anxiety is a narrow strip of water just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz. More than a chokepoint, Hormuz is the jugular vein of global energy trade. When Iran’s leadership, in a display of calibrated brinkmanship that is the diplomatic equivalent of givig Trump the finger, threatens to block it, global oil and gas markets jolt awake.
For government planners and defence chiefs in Asia, the region most dependent on oil and gas flows through the Hormuz chokepoint, an extended period of the total blockade of the Strait presents a nightmare scenario. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshide Suga, for instance, stated in May 2019 after the tanker attacks in the Strait that it is a “matter of life and death of our country in terms of energy security”.
Iranian officials have often made threats to the security of the shipping, but the Government has never actually attempted to close the Strait. The Strait, thus, has never been blockaded, although shipping traffic was badly affected during the ‘Tanker War’ phase of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. In the most recent statement from the Iranian Government, Esmail Kosari, a member of the Parliament’s Security Commission, said that the closure of the strategic Strait of Hormuz is “being seriously reviewed”.
In 2024, approximately 20 million barrels of crude oil passed through the Strait every day. That’s around 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption, and about 30% of all seaborne crude oil trade. On the natural gas front, nearly a fifth of the world’s LNG exports — mainly from Qatar and the UAE — navigate these same waters. Together, oil and gas transiting Hormuz power the economies of East Asia, Europe and beyond. This isn’t some obscure regional pipeline; it’s a linchpin of the world economy.
This is the ultimate catastrophic mistake on so many levels. It is horrifying but on another level I understand that it has to happen as part of the process of destroying the US$ empire. Geopolitical orders and and military balances can change very quickly. In some ways it is understandable why western leaders want this war but ultimately, like all wars, it will create more problems than it solves.
Religious fanatics have been writing doomsday scenarios since mankind learned to write. Actions speak louder than words and the current Israeli fanatics have determined their religion is prime. They are the ones doing what? Bombing the hell out of their neighbours and depriving their own people of the basic necessities required for life. No, not Hamas, not Iran, not Muslims but Israeli Jews are murdering en masse while on the verge of ordering the US President, another one of the world’s more questionable figures, to wipe a sovereign country (Iran) off the map.
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Is America Heading For Civil War?
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Ilhan Omar (with Bernie Sanders behind thinking "I wouldn't mind giving her a taste of my pork sausage) - picture credit www.thenation.com
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soon after the suicide bomb at The Manchester Arena, I felt obliged to defriend someone on facebook, whom I have known online for around ten years. So what did this sweet lady, who writes books on medieval witchcraft and calls herself a pagan, do to piss me off? She showed herself to be a hypocrite by posting a whinge about people reacting with anger and 'hate' to this latest atrocity; "I'm all about compassion, I will not stand by and see Muslims victimised because of this." Oh yeah? And what about the dead and injured victimised by a muslim extremist?
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ISIS: Know Your Enemy - Who Of Those We Think Are On Our Side Is Helping ISIS
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The supporters of the wannabe King of the American Empire like to describe themselves as 'liberal', 'progressive', and left wing. If they were really any of those things they would not be as fanatically committed to the idea of suppressing free speech as they are.
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