HOW PARALYSIS WORKS

 Plucky little Bahrain asked the UN Security Council to issue a Fatwa Resolution that would allow the opening of the Strait of Hormuz if anyone could find the means and the will. It went like this:

 On the face of it, a simple resolution that puts into words the way the Strait is supposed to work. Transit passage is the rough equivalent of a right that we have, like the Right to Bear Arms. Nobody argues or quibbles with a basic fundamental right like transit passage any more than they try to destroy the 2nd Amendment. Well, perhaps nobody but those who are seriously ticked off at the way the Rules Based Order only seems to ever work in favor of those who made the rules.

China, Russia and France promptly vetoed the Resolution. Bahrain watered it down and tried again. This time only the dangerous countries vetoed the Resolution and the Security Council showed real leadership in the vote because:

Bahrain, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, France, Greece, Latvia, Liberia, Panama, Somalia, the United Kingdom and United States all voted in favor while Columbia and Pakistan stuck to their firmly held beliefs and Abstained. 

One of the many reasons I could not work in our State Department, any Atlantic Fleet Staff or the United Nations is because I'd die trying to draw two honest breaths in a row without dying from the sheer hypocrisy of being in the same building where people say things like this:

"No one should tolerate that they are holding the global economy at gunpoint, but today, Russia and China did tolerate," U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz said Tuesday.

 If we are honest, and we are, the United States and Europe have launched an all out Economic War against Russia and have been interfering dramatically at gunpoint with every aspect of its trade with the rest of the world. The Chinese are all too aware that our actions to close the Strait of Hormuz and deny them the oil they need to keep their economy going are way worse than ruinous, they are catastrophic. It is a Two Ocean Economic War being waged on two countries that did not attack any of the economic belligerents but are suffering drastic damage from their attacks on them.

When China goes into industrial shutdown as they shutter industries to keep their essential needs fueled we will see a return of the devastation of Supply Chain disruptions and the downstream catastrophe they bring. 

You know, if someone wanted to totally destroy the world's economy from a cold standing start, this is how they would do it. A prolonged shutdown of the Strait is going to wreak global havoc and people bleating about the OPEC shutdown as some sort of counterpart just don't realize that when OPEC shut it down places like China didn't even notice because they hadn't industrialized and the rest of the world barely noticed because America and Germany were the only really industrialized countries on the planet and could make do. This affects a much larger and much more interconnected world and as far as I can see, it is all proceeding in some kind of news vacuum.