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originally posted by: ressiv
yeaa sanctions aka blackmail had its best time …..bet the usa are sanction thereself douwn in time ..
what would happen if china should stop all import and export to the usa….
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Agit8dChop
They're responding to moves by the US and its "allies" , there isn't much they can do but you expect them to just sit back and do nothing while the US destroy their economy ?
The direction of travel is almost as obvious as those forcing it.
originally posted by: Bluntone22
originally posted by: ressiv
yeaa sanctions aka blackmail had its best time …..bet the usa are sanction thereself douwn in time ..
what would happen if china should stop all import and export to the usa….
The United states would stop all imports of food and chemicals to China.
They need the money...
originally posted by: TDawg61
originally posted by: roadgravel
Iran is providing security?
I see. Pay us or your tanker may encounter a mine.
I think that's called extortion.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: jacobe001
Try 15%.
And we'd survive. China wouldn't. It would be bad for the US you are wrong who would be hurt more.
originally posted by: roadgravel
I don't think Iran will get many customers for its "security business" while Uncle Sam and his Navy in the area.
originally posted by: butcherguy
This is funny.
Yesterday, in another thread, a poster blamed the US for running a protection racket in the Strait of Hormuz.
pretty sure the saudis have money for these kind of projects and we could try to get the construction contracts ,then the Saudis could "charge a toll"
The proposed 150 metre-wide and 25 metre-deep canal would cross land reaching 700 metres above sea level and allow oil tankers to avoid the Strait Hormuz while halving the distance they travel to the open sea, while add the same time adding hundreds of kilometres to waterfront land to be developed. If it goes ahead, the project would be the largest infrastructure scheme in the region costing an estimated $80bn to complete. By way of comparison, the contracts for the first six lines of the Riyadh Metro network that are currently under construction have a total value of about $22bn. The UAE has also reportedly considered plans for a canal to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. In 2008, it was reported that officials were looking at a proposal to build a 180-kilometre long canal from the Gulf across the Hajjar Mountains and out into the Gulf of Oman from Fujairah on the east coast of the UAE.
pretty sure they would bypass yemen with this one though
“The canal will have a main course across Saudi Arabia and Yemen; however, we have thought of Oman as an alternative for Yemen if the country suffers political instability,” he said. Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE could export their oil through this canal up to the Arabian Sea, thus avoiding the Strait of Hormuz, he added. According to the map, the canal will begin in the area near Bahrain and Qatar or in western UAE.