The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most critical sea lanes in the world today, transiting some 18.5 million barrels of crude and refined products per day, representing roughly 20 percent of all oil produced globally. There is universal consensus among energy analysts that any closure of the Strait of Hormuz would result in “catastrophic” consequences for the global economy.
The general answer to the above question: it wouldn’t be good. From Scott Ritter at theamericanconservative.com:
Some 18 million barrels of oil transit through every day. The economic impact would be catastrophic.
The effort on the part of the Trump administration to shut down Iran’s ability to export oil is predicated on the false notion that the rest of the world will fall in lockstep with U.S. policy. But has President Donald Trump really thought through what would happen to the economic health of the world if Iran retaliates, shutting the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world’s oil flows daily?
The Trump administration’s push to reduce Iran’s oil exports to zero has entered a new, critical phase, with the United States refusing to extend the waivers
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Total insanity. If the jews and neocons use tactical nukes on irans mountain facilities and cities, as cheney-rumfeld-wolfowitz-bloton planned , it will be world war 3. Evil crazy nucleoape bastards!
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Gloria, I hear the Pentagon has the numbers all worked out. They predict 1 billion survivors from a total nuclear war, which in their crooked way of thinking makes it all good.
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And, I’m sure that they have plans to be among the survivors.
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Rosaliene, i think they think they have plans but are gravely misguided. All the supposed plans I’ve ever seen don’t include any realistic plans for producing food into the future.
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I am a radionuclide toxicologist. You know i and I know that that, is all bullshit bramhall so why even bring up such bullshit.
Perhaps you do not y stupid, the psychotic, the uneducated , the extremely brainwahed could believe such bullshit
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Only the stupid, the psychotic, the uneducated , the extremely brainwahed could believe such bullshit. Oh I forgot this is the internet the ultimate meme machine
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And you may ask yourself What haven’t I done? That is when another tohoku 9.0 earthquake hits or a meteorite stikes or there is a carrington event or a nuclear war. It is when a dozen or so, of the 400 rickety-shit old reactors from around the world, that should have never been built go off. They go off w hundreds tons of st90, cs137, co90, uranium, plutonium, yada stored next to them. Highlevel radionuclides, MOX and zirconium that will burn relentlessy into the atmosphere. To finish of the northern hemisphere and the rest of the world a few months later. The angry sky will be Black and red and dark with a green glow. The human genome destroyed. Life support destroyed.
When the hundreds of tons of nuclear waste dumped into the arctic, starts bubbling up from the depths. When massive nuclear armed nuclear submarines and other, have core meltdowns adding to the final nuclear inferno
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https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/24/pepe-escobar-war-on-iran-calling-americas-bluff/
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Thanks for the link, carinaragno. It’s all very worrisome.
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A good question. As Gloria notes, that would be “total insanity” and could only result in a nuclear World War 3.
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The one interest group pushing this craziness gets its own oil smuggled to it by the Iraqi Kurds via the Mediterranean ports of Turkey so it won’t care if the world faces a fuel crisis courtesy war on Iran:
‘It is astonishing to read neoconservatives, who have done little else since the 1970s but lobby for exerting American hegemony in the Middle East, decry the results of the exertion of European hegemony in the Middle East. It reads like an artificial intelligence that just briefly verges on full self-awareness before pivoting and falling back to safer ground. It’s particularly rich for Makovsky, whose JINSA predecessors promoted the ouster of two of those “strong authoritarian hands” in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, to bemoan one result of their ouster.
But let’s focus on the proposal Makovsky makes: redrawing borders in the Middle East, creating what he calls “loose confederations or new countries with more borders that more naturally conform along sectarian lines,” in order to counter Iran. The proposal strongly resembles recommendations found in “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” a 1996 publication of the Jerusalem-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies that was prepared in collaboration with several other neoconservative think tanks—including JINSA.’
‘Clean Break II: Iran Hawks Decide to Burn it All Down’ by Jim Lobe and Derek Davison, https://www.wrmea.org/018-march-april/lean-break-ii-iran-hawks-decide-to-burn-it-all-down.html
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Interesting article, Agha, thanks for sharing. For myself, I would be quite pleased to see higher oil process. For the sake of the planet, people need to wean themselves off fossil fuels.
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