It’s better that it’s happening now than after Iran has nuclear tipped ballistic missiles. They would certainly shut the strait down for every negotiation after that. They’d reverse the trade isolation and being shut out of the world’s economy. Send us money, or else. They’d be North Korea on steroids.
On the other hand, people will be suffering NOW and would rather put it off until some indeterminant future. Even though the suffering is likely to be much worse in an Iran nuclear armed future.
One of the huge impacts that I haven’t seen discussed is the drop in fertilizer production. This could easily cause starvation in some of the smaller countries. On the other hand, after this every country should start storing more oil and probably building nuclear reactors. Solar and wind farms are great for Green bragging rights, but when you need to heat or cool a whole population, they fall short.
Time to take out Iran’s refineries..especially the towers that process the crude oil.
Don’t most of those countries have “natural” fertilizers? AKA dung?
Fertilizer is huge. One of the earlier USNI article I posted listed all the products that come from the Persian Gulf. I might find time to dig it up for you.
“fertilizer”
What might be spread on lawns could be used to produce food.
“It’s better that it’s happening now than after Iran has nuclear tipped ballistic missiles.”
So true. Any pundit who can’t see that is sub-par. Our President might describe them as “low-IQ people,” and I’m coming around to his way of thinking.