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.
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Ah that global interconnectedness and it's really about America crippling China show up.
Like maybe grabbing Venezuela after China got a oil deal with them and having Panama take the Panama Canal from China running it even though they were running it simply like a good business, no favoritism shown.
We got LOTS OF OIL Trump brags about and Braggs how HUGE numbers of oil tankers are coming to America for oil.
SOMEONE has to make Bank for all that lost Middle East oil.
Oil sells at world prices. Unless we go protectionism, AMERICANS will be paying the same prices as "expensive" Asia and EU for fuel.
Wonder what that will do for everything that has to be shipped, like groceries and stuff? Can you say fuel surcharges and general price increases?
BTW ALREADY affecting American Farmers:
https://www.fb.org/news-release/nationwide-survey-most-farmers-cant-afford-fertilizer
Seems the world needing fertilizer that ONCE came from the Middle East have already started buying up as much American made fertilizer at any price.
The food on the shelves today is from LAST YEARS production.
Going to get ugly about November when the effects show up in the grocery stores.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. Remember when the world economic forum told us that by 2030 we would own nothing and be happy? This is all part of their plan to take everything that everyone has and those that are left will be happy just to be alive…imho
I also remember population reduction and what George Soros said:
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
George Soros
American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.
George Soros
The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.
George Soros
And many more about removing America as a capitalist obstacle to an open society aka Own nothing and be happy crowd.
Seems some folks are encouraging this defanging of the US military.
BTW despite messing with China's oil, it seems not a kilogram of Chinese rare earths (still some 95% of world production) has gotten to America.
Maybe China doesn't want America to rebuild their expended long ranged "smart weapons" and perform repairs and such on heavily used F35's and Stealth Bombers.
Odd that.
Yes....we are engaging in economic warfare against Russia and China. So effing what. They BOTH have been engaging in asymmetrical warfare against the US for DECADES. It's about time we had someone in office willing to return that favor.
Take the long view. Step back and look at the situation in 10 years time and see what the end game of various strategies could be.
–If fertilizer is your pet bugaboo, it is made with petroleum and if there is a shortage in America because of interference elsewhere in the world, wouldn't a sane approach for us be to go about establishing our own fertilizer plants in Texas and north coast America?
– Consider the Panama Canal. Just what bunch of idiots convinced Panama to try to vastly expand the canal despite the fact that it runs hydraulically and there is no more water falling from the skies to power the system even if the triple the size of the locks? That was probably China ruining something someone else really owned.
–Driving home very hard once again that Petroleum is the underlying basis of civilization is not a bad thing. One might almost call it a unique public service.
_ Our grocery stores will survive just fine and moaning about any prospective cost increase of a few pennies on the $ is stupid given the way inflation alone keeps driving the costs up by $ per pound.
I think we can rely on the media to make sure everyone knows this is all Donald's fault. Unfortunately, that trick has played out and there is nothing left in the mine. Nobody watches or believes or gets their news from the media anymore.
To coin a phrase, that ship has sailed.
The Soros team want a world of slaves. They know that the USA is literally the final bastion keeping that from happening. The elites everywhere else in the world have won and control everything and they want to extinguish American 'exceptionalism' and they want it dead now.
The effing is the 'fucking around part' that we have become so familiar with on youtube, x, and facebook. The 'finding out part' is where they both decide that they cannot win the game as played and decide to go kinetic and we find out if the West can take hardcore elemental war again. I don't think Europe can, I doubt America can and I don't see it making any difference in Asia or Africa.
Ask yourself. You have gone to the very limit imposing economic warfare sanctions against both Russia and China so what do you do if they take it to the next step and use cyber attacks in relentless non-stop fashion to take down your power grid and destroy it if possible everytime you power it up? What if they spread radiologicals or there is another outbreak of something far far worse than Wuhan Flu?
You've shot your wad and now you have to go kinetic.
But there you are standing in a muddy field holding a broom stick with 100,000 other losers because there are NO rifles and there is NO ammo and there are no tanks and no APC and no artillery and nothing else that matters on a battlefield.
That's why I like to point out that waging economic war is usually followed up by waging actual war. You better be ready for it because it comes out of 'nowhere' and by golly, 'nobody could have seen that one coming!' You know the refrain, it happens every single damned time.
The results of this little "controllable war" will be showing up around August. When the last of LAST YEARS harvest is "replaced " by this year's harvest season.
Building factories is something that should have been done and on f*ing line BEFORE destroying the world's fertilizer systems.
Or at least an strategic SUPPLY set aside first.
But our "Economic HEROES " don't think about next month as Trumps dumping a large amount of our strategic oil that wasn't totally refilled last time to "calm the oil market ".
To anon at 9:26 a few comments:
1. Remember when all of Africa and Egypt starved to death 3 years ago when the Russia Ukraine war cut off the endless supplies of grain? Yeah, me neither.
2. The best time to build a factory to produce something already being produced elsewhere is to eliminate production elsewhere and then build. This is such a basic economic rule I'm surprised you didn't know it. This is how the WTO worked.
3. If you look you will learn that the administration did argue to replace the POL reserve but that CONGRESS refused to budget the money to buy the oil. That's about all the admin can do you know.....they propose and Congress funds. or not as the case may be.
There was hunger in the last Ukraine scuffle, but America sent food and it resolved. Not sure if enough slack in the system this time.
Economic theory of waiting until loss of CRITICAL fertilizer supply is an idiotic notion.
Americans don't want to wait a year plus to build fertilizer factories and then wait until that fertilizer helps farmers FEED them.
Please remember your comment when some people try to rob you as your loading your car with groceries this fall.
Folks get violent when they cannot buy food.
Hell,when the EBT cards had a 24 hour "failure " in a few states a year or so ago Folks just walked out WITH their carts and it seems Gov.com just reenbursed the stores.
The COVID "supply chain issues " showed how poorly our Gimmedats act out when denied mere toilet paper.
Food is more socially explosive than that.
I carry but don't want to be in a Rodesia lifestyle.
BTW after our agricultural secretary spoke about high fertilizer prices I took a look at exports and oddly enough seems a spike in fertilizer sales for Asia and South America. Guess our farmers have even less to buy now.
I wonder if overseas buyers are buying up groceries to ship overseas now?
Fertilizer and food are sold to the highest bidders.
In a few months we will see.
Honestly, you sound a little stressed but let me put you at ease. We live in a Republic that oozes money to poor people and thieves without even being squeezed. Nobody in N. America is going to suffer food shortages unless the marxists manage to own the grocery stores the way they're trying again in SF and NYC.
If you're really concerned, drop the bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis and that will kill almost 100% of the food shipments out of the midwest down to the Gulf for overseas markets and based on our efforts in Baltimore it will only take 4 to 9 years to remove the obstacle and get on with exporting our food. Or we could suffer some more midwest drought and the barges cannot make it south Cairo. I mean, look on the Bright Side.
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