As I watch the avalanche of glee that delights in President Trump getting the reluctant dindu's of our alliance to offer to consider a meeting to discuss putting together a planning group to propose ways to possibly pony up a few things, I cannot help but note that the historical form of their support took on qualities you might best describe as ghostly or nebulous or transparent or missing altogether and it makes me laugh just as it always has. Sure, the countries that are offering ships to 'help with Hormuz' are finally awake to the danger of US just walking away from the faux alliance but I doubt they will offer anything even remotely like assistance with the problems presented in the Gulf. This is their nature.
Not just by their nature but also by their relentless parsimony and idiotic rules of engagement and meaningless integration, they are each and every one marked by an inability to wage war or anything at all like war. Their warships are as useless in the air threat environment as are our LCS platforms and their minesweeping assets will comport themselves in great comfort in Fujairah or possibly Muscat as they await the opportunity to 'safely' enter the Gulf and commence some serious permanent R&R in Dubai.
Some people imagine that this time will be different, this time they'll do it right. Those people are idiots. Pigs will fly before any working warships from either the West or Japan show up to make a difference. What they will meet to discuss in about 3 months is the possibility of establishing something like their Observer operations in Lebanon or in the Sinai or in xYugoslavia where they sit around and do little or nothing to stop the bad guys from doing things. Their 'mission' in the SOH will probably have a nice set of offices in Dubai and their ships will range the area from Abu Dhabi to Dubai with perhaps a rare sortie to Fujairah or Muscat.
Nobody takes OTAN seriously anymore and this is why.
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Let the those who NEED Hormuz open undertake the work of keeping the it open. Or not....their choice.
As long as American has any interesting in being the world reserve currency they are obliged to be the navy that keeps the trade going. England failed and now can barely keep a frigate running.
The petrodollar was losing ground to the Ruble and Yuan as major OPEC nations stopped only accepting US Dollars for oil from the Petrodollar agreement of the Kissinger era.
SNIP 16%
The US imports approximately 16% of its total fertilizer consumption, with the majority coming from Canada and the Middle East. The top imported fertilizers include nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, accounting for over 70% of total imports
Why do we import fertilizer? Well, our domestic factories are running at full capacity, and it was cheaper to buy it from overseas. Maybe in a few Years we can build enough factories to use our oil and make it ourselves.
I could list a lot more examples of basic manufacturing we did the SAME THING too in order to use Cheaper Labor and so on.
I'll not bother to point out what % of Non-USA fertilizer has been eliminated by this Hugely Successful Beautiful war.
In a few months we will see how many nations cozy up to China as they've started selling fertilizer to "friendly nations". How long before Taiwan's FOOD Supply is crippled up by this war and they look to China for their daily rice.
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