It would be China's hesitancy to engage in warfare. Is China a collapsing state just wait two weeks? No. It's pretty much in the same boat as the US right now. Things aren't great, but they're not so bad as to call for a full military intervention. They probably believe (and rightly so) that this is just a short term tantrum from the US and that things will go back to normal after the midterms. Which they will
Not all that surprising. There's The Left, then "the left", you know? The Left has always been suspicious on some level that "the left" is a jewish psyop anyway.
IRGC will drag them back in, they will be back in soon enough… Daddy is making himself richer. I can’t imagine Hezbollah ending their fight against those pesky Jews anytime soon. That will just slowly ramp things back up.
Most of the ships crossing the strait have been from the Chinese “shadow fleet”. During the early days in the war, all the Chinese ships were publicly broadcasting that’s they were either Chinese owned or crewed. No issues for them crossing, now it’s not worth it because the transit lags are primed and set to detonate.
Carrying on from the shipping traffic, it was interesting that most of the Chinese oil tankers didn’t return to the Gulf, there has been a rather large influx of container ships though.
China HAS been dodging the sanctions, like Iran. BRICS love it or hate it is already a thing, the Petro $ is gone. Mr T blew that up.
Something tells me DEI wasn't the main reason these people of merit weren't getting hired before
@AltisticRight can you unban me from the other thread since it turns out I am fully correct and the people sneeding in that thread are hilarious and can't laugh at the stupidity of all of this.
Definitely after Trump's term is over. One election cycle is within any five year plan. Once they know it's a long term problem, they'll act first by quickly divesting US bonds and then expanding the scale of rare earth export bans to anything that might have military use like screws or cheap microprocessors. Any military option is probably going to be like Iran where the US is the clear aggressor near Chinese waters.
Desire to auto da fe intensifies.
IIRC they don't moderate Autistic Thunderdome subforums but lolcow ones. But don't hold your breath, it's clear the moderation of USPG2 and the other Iran thread is designed to keep a safespace for MAGA supporters (not necessarily because of ideological reasons, probably to avoid flamewars/report spamming)
Interestingly they may be falling foul of a crypto scam. How stupid the future really is.
I strongly doubt the western companies would fall foul of this purely because the insurance to set sail is astronomical. These vessels are too high of a capital outlay to have them uninsured. Unless Daddy has got some of his navy ships in the region and providing a guarantee.
I would guess that the large owner/operators of ships are moving "cheaper" ships through the strait as a way of figuring out how to use it in this situation.
I don't mod this board so I cannot ban or unban people.
That is probably true but what is also true is that many shipping companies are shell companies with dubious finances - if the ships don't move in a set amount of time they'll likely go bankrupt. So I imagine that is factoring into things.
Correct, also these shell companies will have some strong link to one of the BRICS nations, most commonly its either Chinese or Russian, two of the major supporters of the regime.
