Friday, 17 April 2026

Strait Open But Aren't They Forgetting Something?

Keir Starmer is in Paris for a meeting about the Strait of Hormuz but Iran appears to have already declared the waterway is 'completely open for the remaining period of the ceasefire' and already the price of a barrel of oil has dropped by 10% .
The blame for the steep rise in the first place falls entirely on the two antagonists America and Israel, but while the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz was/is a big problem, i fail to see how the tankers flowing again is going to ease the problem when most of the oil infrastructure is damaged.
Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world's largest LNG facility, took massive damage from an Iranian missile and Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reserve.
All sides targeted each other's energy infrastructure, refineries in Saudi Arabia, Gas fields in UAE, petrochemical plants in Qatar and when one of these facilities are hit, its isn't a quick job to rebuild.
Some of these facilities took a decade to plan and five years to build and if a missile goes through one,  you're looking at a couple of years to get it running again. If the structural damage is severe, and fires tend to do that, you're looking at a complete rebuild.
I am sure that Trump and his fellow infant's will claim victory and hope the whole World has amnesia that the person who caused such global economic upheaval and almost drove it off a cliff was the same person who pointed the car at the cliff in the first place.
Still, making Americans worry about the cost of filling up their cars stops them from thinking their President is a pedophile, which he almost certainly is, so job done there Donny.