Trump: you’ll have to get your own oil
Literally everyone: does
If orange man is still alive, he won’t be happy :)
edit: He’s apparently alive, but also big mad
Im sure no one else in the white house has access to his account. I want to see him say this in person, in camera
It would seem like different nations are trying to find a sort of modus operandi to somewhat use the shipping lane again. Let’s see how long it takes for the US Navy to be used to keep it closed for everyone.
That would actually be massive escalation in more than the obvious ways. Gulf states are the ones buying up most US debt (which is piling up extremely quickly). This is a large part of their leverage to secure continues US military protection. Should the US Navy be used to block the straight to enforce some kind of all-or-nothing approach, it’s going to be cause a lot of knock on effects in the bond market. We do be living in interesting times!
Question is whether they paid or not.
Dont know for others, but concerning France they have mobilised their military navy there, pretty sure that Iran was not willing to engage war with another country and therefore agreed to let France go freely.
Ah I didn’t hear about that. Interesting.
Modern cargo carriers are sized upwards of 2 million barrels. If you can reduce the oil price to back where it was before the war started, there is a looot of money you can pay Iran to grease the wheels of the Strait. And we know from other ships they demand about $2M per vessel, totally worth it.
It’s going to be an increasing problem for the United States. Since they refused to reopen the Strait, the Iranians control it de facto. Which means any hostile act by the United States against Iran turns into an expensive price hike for countries around the world.
That is absolutely a great way to turn allies into enemies.
