From Newsgroup: nz.politics
An eyewitness report from a researcher who took a speedboat into the
Strait of Hormuz, and lived to tell the tale: <
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360961569/researchers-behind-viral-ai-prediction-visited-hormuz-speedboat-what-they-saw>.
Some quotes:
rCLYou donrCOt go through if you donrCOt get approved,rCY CitrinirCOs report
said. rCLThis is the difference between a blockade and a toll road,
and the market has been pricing the former while the reality on
the water is setting up to look a lot more like the latter.rCY
...
The bad news is that the current volumes are nowhere near the
levels needed to avoid global economic disaster in the long term.
...
rCLThe best propaganda for Iran is a functioning strait where they
look like the reasonable stewards of global trade, while the US
looks like the disruptive force.rCY
And this may be why other countries are finding solutions, despite
the hot war playing out overhead.
rCLThe most counterintuitive finding from this trip is that hot war
and commercial diplomacy are happening at the same time. The rest
of the world is adapting and negotiating passage while the US
continues with military action,rCY it said.
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