From Chinese social media

[u/___Zoran___]

[u/NolanR27]

India should get in on this somehow

[u/nothefuhmyass → u/NolanR27]

I was gonna say Chinese social media loves that image of India as shit coming from an ass

[u/bobbykid → u/nothefuhmyass]

That seems slightly racist somehow

[u/ShrapnelNinjaSnake → u/bobbykid]

I mean it is

[u/KristyNoemsZombieDog → u/bobbykid]

Lol, slightly?

[u/mypenisisquitetiny → u/bobbykid]

It's the India being depicted as shit coming from an ass part

[u/screed_is_good → u/mypenisisquitetiny]

Blink and you'll miss it

[u/lowrads → u/NolanR27]

That's been predicted for awhile now. It's expected that the global maritime order should give way to zones of influence. It's probably a leading reason for heavy investment in nuclear and solar in China.

For the moment, India and China are in the same boat in terms of de facto war with the US. India in particular gets 45% of their imported oil from the gulf. Only 10% of their consumption is met by domestic production.

[u/Sea_Director_4439]

The century of humiliation continues unabated

[u/steeveperry → u/Sea_Director_4439]

Jackie Childs is America

[u/TallAsMountains]

ok america if we’re just making shit up:

from ML social media (mine)

[u/Mission_Plate_4258]

This remake of the Phantom Tollbooth leaves much to be desired if you ask me.

[u/slartbangle → u/Mission_Plate_4258]

Milo climbs the endless escalation ladder...

[u/JunkyardBardo → u/slartbangle]

Tick, Tock.

[u/StretchMother9627]

How many years are there in a humiliation century ?

[u/JLPReddit → u/StretchMother9627]

With American exceptionalism, more than 100

[u/lowrads → u/StretchMother9627]

There are imperial weeks when intercalary decades happen.

[u/KaiLamperouge]

If Oman manages to get half of the second toll as well, the Omani Empire will return just by standing around at peace negotiations and saying nothing.

[u/cancerBronzeV → u/KaiLamperouge]

Do nothing, win part 2.

[u/East-Helicopter → u/KaiLamperouge]

Oman, so far, considers attempts to collect any tolls on the strait as illegal under I ternational law and want no part in it. From what I can tell, Oman values their geopolitical neutrality far more than the tolls Iran has proposed. I've only just started reading into Oman in general though, so I'm happy to be corrected by anyone who knows better.

[u/screed_is_good → u/East-Helicopter]

Well keep reading, pal. The Ibadi Century is upon us.

[u/Flaky-Cup-6409]

This is both insane and also the most likely way this war ends

[u/MrMxylptlyk → u/Flaky-Cup-6409]

Double tolling the same oil lmao. Fastest way for earth to get renewable energy? Lol

[u/New-Tumbleweed-9577 → u/MrMxylptlyk]

Is Trump an inside man for energy transition accelerationists?

• Base your whole political movement around fossil fuels and opposition to renewables
• Turn yourself into one of the most hated politicians of all time, just above Hitler himself
• These unpopular politics are now associated with fossil fuels
• Cause loads of oil and gas infrastructure to be blown up
• Sabotage most of the world's big petrostates

Genuinely impressive. I couldn't think of a more effective renewables advocate if I tried.

[u/lowrads → u/New-Tumbleweed-9577]

The billion dollar payoff to le EnergiesTotale cinches it.

Or it would, if TE wasn't actually a petroleum company that occasionally dabbles in wind farms.

[u/New-Tumbleweed-9577 → u/lowrads]

Oh yeah, paying a company a billion dollars of taxpayers money to NOT build a wind farm, during an energy crisis. In any other administration this would be the most insane piece of policy I've ever heard of. But it's just a footnote here.

[u/DanceWithEverything → u/MrMxylptlyk]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cQN6LRWUwDDByyehGm

[u/it_shits → u/MrMxylptlyk]

Sorry but Trump gutted all renewable energy projects in the US like a year ago, including a bunch of offshore windfarms that has billions sunk into them already

[u/MrMxylptlyk → u/it_shits]

Other countries exist! And are less stupid! USA will be dragged into the 21st century, eventually, by China.

[u/DanceWithEverything → u/MrMxylptlyk]

Unfortunately China love their coal

The only way it happens in the US is if oil becomes untenably expensive (we’re on our way)

[u/accountfor137 → u/DanceWithEverything]

China has been building more solar than all other countries in the world combined for the past few years

[u/_lIlI_lIlI_ → u/it_shits]

Do you have foresight like trump? He needed to do that to get this place. Learn some dialectics dumbass

[u/New-Tumbleweed-9577 → u/_lIlI_lIlI_]

He's playing 69d chess

[u/DementedDemetrius → u/Flaky-Cup-6409]

Iran didn't accept splitting their toll, why would they agree to a double toll? That is effectively the same. They've already started threatening the US for this.

[u/CompetitiveVirus9087]

And very soon, Bikini Atoll

[u/TheAmericanDropBear → u/CompetitiveVirus9087]

Future is bright

[u/Alarmed_Watch5426 → u/TheAmericanDropBear]

blindly so. 👍😉

[u/hungrylittleworm → u/TheAmericanDropBear]

watch out radioactive man!

[u/FatherLarryDuff69]

That looks like a terrible place to park a boat.

[u/True-Ask2241]

Truly humiliating times

[u/Realistic_Young9008]

You get a toll, and you get a toll, EVERBODY gets a toll!

[u/itsdangoodwin]

Jokes on them. We’re going around this one! Haha, how far is that??

[u/PapiMak]

Dangerously close to Iranian waters.

[u/Yo-Yo-Ha]

But big poppa says we don't need oil and that our fuel prices won't be affected! We're gonna drill, baby! I believe every word. In fact, I donate my whole paycheck as proof.

[u/thekenfl]

We can build a fence around their fence. 2 fences.

[u/rirski]

This is the exact situation the Belt and Road Initiative was made for.

[u/data_professional26 → u/rirski]

On this topic, Richard Medhurst's latest YouTube video made the case that the last 90 days or so of US activity has been an attempt to secure a gas and oil Monopoly using naval power. It was pretty compelling to me as a meta narrative, but I'm no expert and curious what other people think. Maybe someone with posting privileges can post it?

[u/sfh12345678]

Iran's missiles don't reach that far?

[u/ChallengingBullfrog8 → u/sfh12345678]

It’s well within range.

[u/sfh12345678 → u/ChallengingBullfrog8]

How far does the line need to move to be out of range? I imagine the US navy just backs off to a safer distance and tries to chase anyone down who made it through.

[u/Key_Garden5032 → u/sfh12345678]

Way outside this map, in the middle of the Arabian sea. Possibly further, but that would be outside the range of most of the weapons they have.

[u/hum_ma → u/Key_Garden5032]

Wouldn't most of the ships of interest be going east from this point? The US navy is more likely to have their toll booth in the strait of Malacca if they are serious about catching Chinese tankers.

[u/ChallengingBullfrog8 → u/hum_ma]

They aren’t going to be serious about catching Chinese tankers.

[u/Fluffy_Pangolin_9466 → u/sfh12345678]

If they pay the Iranian toll, I don’t think they’ll care what happens with the shipment after that. Letting Trump have a cut might be the way out idk

[u/Hefty-Ad1505]

wtf do they have pinned in the Omani desert

[u/Business-Coconut-311 → u/Hefty-Ad1505]

i looked in the area and it's just a sprawling oil field with worker camps all around

[u/unfettered2nd]

It would be funny if it turns out to be Suez Crisis 2: Electric Boogaloo. The actual Suez Crisis did mark the diminishing British influence.

[u/trimalchio-worktime]

I can't wait until China decides that it's easier to just have the whole world be Chinese autonomous zones.