US/Israel Launches Op Epic Fury Against Iran (5 Viewers)

[damian]

Surely this will stimulate the building of pipelines etc to bypass this strait.
May take a few years but ultimately a work around will be developed.

 

[jazzeum]

Surely this will stimulate the building of pipelines etc to bypass this strait.
May take a few years but ultimately a work around will be developed.

If you look at a map, that’s not really doable. The countries that need the oil are in Asia. That means that if the oil is coming from Kuwait you have to build a line that goes through Iraq, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistani to get to the Arabian Sea and that assumes that Pakistani has the port facilities to handle oil.

 

[Combat]

If the blockade is intended to stop Iran's oil trade, I don't know why they waited so long. It seems like that might have been something done even before this conflict to put pressure on them. Given that Iran is apparently still threatening ships in the straits, I'm not exactly sure whose ships are getting through.