[yabones]

It's kind of funny how the US military, the largest single consumer of fossil fuels on the planet, didn't consider that disrupting the largest source of fossil fuels would impact them.

[pan69]

Unfortunately you're flawed to think that rational and evidence based thinking plays a role in the final decision making.

[softwaredoug]

They of course considered it. It’s the civilians at the top that did not.

[franktankbank]

Does it consume oil flowing through the strait?

[piva00]

Does it matter when oil is a global commodity?

Countries reliant on oil coming through the strait will have to find other sources, pushing prices up, unless the USA implements price and export controls on producers in its own soil that will reflect in the USA's economy which is very reliant on oil.

[selectodude]

They demoted or fired all the people in the room who would raise a concern for being gay and woke.

[nfornowledge]

Yep. This is a nationalist christian war. We all feel for Bibi getting roped into this. Thank goodness the marines have his blessing.