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[–] 18 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The idea being to choke off Iran's ability to use it at all. This kills their remaining income stream and also incents the Chinese and others who thought they had a workaround (the tolls) to instead put pressure on Iran.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    But that only works if the US is willing to start attacking unarmed oil tankers, which will do no favors for their international support.

    If they hadn’t alienated all their allies, they could build an embargo until the straits were opened but that ship had sailed.

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    China is both extremely well supplied with Oil, and aggressively weaning itself off of oil. It's everyone else in Asia who are now pressured to get closer to China from this. Asia cutting US off from Chips, and selling to China instead, until US leaves the Gulf region, is the most effective action. Diplomatically, asserting that the US/Israel illegal war is the primary source of fuel and helium shortages needed to make chips, industry needs to focus on serving friendly country needs first.

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