alt Hacker News> the "normie" world has seen just how much power Iran actually has
The weird thing is practically every strategist has known this since the 1980s. Iran's geography means as long as it controls its Gulf-coast border, it can control the Strait.
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ares623 • today at 1:37 AM
Yes. Unfortunately for majority of voters, unless it impacts them directly they won't believe it.
I hope countries (or rather, voters) around the world are waking up to just how helplessly dependent they are on a resource they do not own and have to beg and scrape from others.
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This is part of why it took over 40 years for Israel to finally find a U.S. president ignorant enough to pull something like this.