For over 50 years, the specter of 'Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz' has haunted the world. Is it a realistic fear? Doesn't Iran need to sell its oil as badly as China needs to get the oil? Why would Iran want to hurt BRICS countries? China is providing some assistance to Iran these days, so it is not in Iran's interest to weaken a developing alliance.
Of course, closing the Strait shuts off the oil from the Arab states, and not just from Iran. This would make the Arab countries more hostile to Iran in an era when Iran is becoming friendlier to Arab states on the Persian Gulf. For instance, some of these Arab countries have closed their airspace to Israeli-American bombing of Iran. Maybe that was the real reason why Iran threatened to close the Strait.
How selective could the closing off of the Strait of Hormuz be? Iran doesn't really have the navy to provide protective convoys to friendly countries.
These are the questions I have. They never seem to get talked about in the media. Actually it seems that many important issues never get talked about where oil is involved.
For instance, when they talk about American oil companies exploiting the oil that 'belongs to the people of Venezuela' -- with La Marseillaise music playing in the background -- they are talking about sulfurous thick black goo like it is a ripe apple growing on a tree. It takes many billions of dollars of chemical engineering to turn that sludge into something that a final customer will buy. The vaunted 'people' of Venezuela are not coming up with the billions of dollars of energy-infrastructure -- but the evil oil companies are.
Finally, I would like to know if it would benefit the world and the USA to sink Trump's big beautiful armada. Maybe that would show the world and the USA that the unipolar moment is over, and that warmongers in the USA need to give up on their delusions.
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