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Can the world get its supply of oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz?

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Re: Can the world get its supply of oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz?

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*Can the world have an American President that for once doesn't start pointless wars to distract from internal scandals?

It'd be nice if we could take a few years off from having a president at all - just rest, recover, and start to clean up the mess.

That would probably be the best. But I can't see how one would even begin to introduce that in the current top-heavy presidency-driven system.

Re: Can the world get its supply of oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really haven’t been paying attention to Ukraine. You can launch them from trucks. from boats. You can make them so cheap defense becomes too costly. What people don’t seem to get is that you that much of modern infrastructure is not scalable to an age of war and chaos the US is unleashing in bid to shift power dynamics from economy (which China is winning) to military. Pipelines have endless vulnerability surface…

> You can make them so cheap defense becomes too costly. That's because the US chose to shoot them down with Patriot missles, like morons. Ukrainians have developed cheap interceptor drones for this very purpose. There are also radar-guided anti-aircraft guns like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flakpanzer_Gepard

Just for context it’s about $1 million per patriot vs just $2000 for the Ukrainian Shahed interceptors.
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