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minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIran is going to close the Straight of Hormuz. There goes the worlds economy. 25% of the worlds oil runs through there.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoAnd then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoThey may try. There would be more than just the US and Israel bombing them if that happened, you just don’t fuck with international trade.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoWell, yeah. It wouldn’t be WW3 without more dance partners.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoWho’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoRussia and China both have defense treaties with Iran.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoI expect China wouldn’t be happy about the Straight of Hormus being closed though.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoThey won’t be happy watching the dollar crash and the worlds economy being replaced by BRICS and finally being rid of the US as money police?
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 hours agoI may be wrong but I think China needs that straight open, mayb3 even more than the US do.
minus-squareCarmakazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoRussia probably isn’t much of a concern right now. China…we wouldn’t overextend a conflict to the point where China gets involved, right? …Not again? …For the third time?
Iran is going to close the Straight of Hormuz.
There goes the worlds economy.
25% of the worlds oil runs through there.
And then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.
They may try.
There would be more than just the US and Israel bombing them if that happened, you just don’t fuck with international trade.
Well, yeah. It wouldn’t be WW3 without more dance partners.
Who’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
Russia and China both have defense treaties with Iran.
I expect China wouldn’t be happy about the Straight of Hormus being closed though.
They won’t be happy watching the dollar crash and the worlds economy being replaced by BRICS and finally being rid of the US as money police?
I may be wrong but I think China needs that straight open, mayb3 even more than the US do.
Russia probably isn’t much of a concern right now.
China…we wouldn’t overextend a conflict to the point where China gets involved, right? …Not again? …For the third time?