I’m not even going to read that tripe.
This is the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth. The only way either the Navy or the economy collapses is because the billionaires see profit in it for themselves.
We have the means to easily pay for everything, but the greedy bastards calling the shots want it all for themselves. If the shits who have stolen all the income of this nation paid like they did between 1945 and 1970, the debt would be obliterated in a few years and we could have universal healthcare, childcare and elder care.
That will never happen until we party like it’s 1795. Even then, some other megalomaniac will hijack it and leave us in a reign of terror.
If you don’t know my references, you are sadly lacking basic history education.
Not to mention ego collapse.
not if americans are kept in the dark as they usually are; that’s why tiktok mattered so much.
Dumb headline. Those use the meme where he presses both buttons simultaneously.
Yeah, if the Strait becomes “death valley” then that quickly transforms into economic collapse anyway.
A bunch of immovable wrecks will close of the Strait just as well as a blockade.
A bunch of immovable wrecks will close of the Strait just as well as a blockade.
In the same way a needle can clog a fire hose.
One needle can’t. Wanna find out how many flaming wrecks Iran can fill the Strait with?
Never mind the fact that workers aren’t going to sail to their deaths into “death valley”. Even with hazard pay it’s going to be hard to actually find crews for every vessel, and the costs of insurance would be enormous.
It’s a geometry problem. We’re not talking the Suez Canal here. You don’t seem to realize just how wide and deep the strait is. Crews not wanting to run the blockade is another matter, but there is no possibility of physically blocking the strait. You could sink every ship on Earth into it and it wouldn’t even notice.
It’s only 24 miles wide at its narrowest point. You’re right that they couldn’t clog it completely, but making the waters un-navigable for large oil tankers seems doable. Especially since the crews wouldn’t just have to watch out for the sunken ships, but also large and dangerous chunks of floating debris and hazards they can’t see under the water.
The imagery conjured by “death valley” to me is a boat graveyard - endless wrecks from shore to shore.
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I’m guessing this situation is the existential threat they feared most. They are ruthless. Revenge is in the culture (so I hear), so I think they are acting on “if I’m going down, you’re coming with me” mode.
