I’m looking at the map about the strait of hormuz, I’ve looked up what made it so important and I still don’t get it. I thought that the reason there is so much conflict over it, was that I assumed it looked like it was a very integral passageway for ships to get in and out of. But looking at the map again, it only goes straight to into Kuwait.
What am I missing here? Couldn’t the ships just, not bother with that part and route through elsewhere?
a lot of oil comes from the persian gulf. that is hard to get out otherwise. saudi arabia has a pipeline to their westcoast, but that wouldn’t meet the demand.
the strait of hormuz is a major choke point in oil trade. unfortunately oil is stil a key ressource for everything. …
helium, fertilizer and some stuff for making pcbs (yes your motherboards gonna get expensive)
LNG too.
Because the infrastructure in this region is a joke, while oligarchs suck trillions out of the ground to distribute to princes, no one wanted to invest in an alternative pipeline to the Red Sea. Seemed like a city for Douchebags was a better idea. Abu douchebag.
well redundancies are first of all expensive. plus there are already alternate ways of distribution. these are just insufficient for a naval blockade. the capacity of pumping it up and then putting it on a ship quasi-on-site is always gonna be magnitudes bigger and cheaper, than building pipelines. so …
oh no, poor King Al Saud. They literally piss away trillions from oil revenues. While there is zero infrastructure to the west.