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If this conflict lasts for let's just pick a number, a month, that's enough to probably break the economic models of most of East Asia. And if we have the physical assets that produce the crude take significant damage, then East Asia's gone and it never comes back, with China being the first one to go down, because they just don't have sufficient alternatives from anywhere else.

— The Prof G Pod
2w ago

If they'd got control of the Iranian oil fields and the straight of Hormuz they would have won the cold war and the US already had contingency plans in place to deal with just this eventuality And those plans were nuclear. So hanging over this story is the potential fear of a nuclear confrontation.

1mo ago

there are about 20 million barrels of oil that transit the straits of Hormuz every day. That's almost three times as much as Russia exports. So, you know, this is a problem three times as great as the problem that created the panic on global oil markets at the start of the Ukraine war.

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