The latest fighting between the United States and Iran has shifted attention away from Iran's nuclear programme and towards one of the world's most strategically important waterways: the Strait of Hor
USA needs straight of Hormuz because majority of the oil the USA uses is stolen from Iraq and rebrand it as an American oil. If that does not flow through Hormuz, the USA and petrodollar will collapse.
No. Just like the Germans can’t control the English Channel or the Strait of Dover. A lesson the Germans learned during WW2. It’s an international waterway for freedom of navigation and free trade.
You don't have to be Sun Tzu to understand that Hormuz is controlled by whoever controls the coast, which is Iran. Because most of the strait can be covered even with banal 155 mm howitzers placed 5 km inland. And with rocket artillery everything else.
It is quite surreal that a country 12,000km away wants to control the strait, even though the entire strait belongs to the territorial waters (own territory) of Iran and Oman.
Several people have noted that the United States entered a late dementia phase and is now hallucinating with no possible connection to functional reality.
The focus of this conflict has shifted dramatically. Is the real issue now Iran's nuclear program, or who controls one of the world's most important shipping lanes? We'd like to hear your view.
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