Why Blocking this Strait Will Start WW3
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"whoever controls this has control over the entire known universe"
**Sad alien noises**
Aliens belong to “unknown universe” 🤣
Even alien's cargo pass through this straight
emphasis on "known universe"
They didn’t even say that.
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"Blocking this strait could destroy the world"
- Hollywood screenwriter: "Write that down, write that down"
I can see some Bond villain like the one from Tomorrow Never Dies having the plan to put mines in that strait and start World War 3.
I was Like 69
Cool copy and paste
can someone explain why it would be censored? if he can talk about the holocaust this is fine
@@bid84 there are thousands of comments here, how the fuck can you guess something original?
This aged well
😢
This video was made 2 years ago…. Look at what is going on now!!
Luxembourg Motto: "We Want to Remain What We Are"
RLL: you are my measuring stick
France being a measurement unit for trash: first time?
Like Toyota Corollas.
Is that an American thing?
“Currently they rely on trade” real life lore knows too much
We're fully aware of it for ages and been working hard on developing renewable energy... just kidding we're hardly moving forward on that matter due to corruption, accidents, sheer ignorance of people in general haha. Anti-nuclear is very strong because we keep bombing ourselves. Solar panels aren't getting popular because anytime we build them on a slope a landslide kills people because we don't have a flat land. We're very much oblivious to the danger hidden around the corner because we've taken the peacefulness as granted for the last half century. I'll take a blow on the nose to wake us up.
My thought exactly, just like Germany, Japan going to try again 😂
@@matthewriley6446 yea China "promise" it will not use the mushroom fist, and "promise not to use it against non-mushroomed States "
@@ryo0ka936 Which country are you referring to?
@@ryo0ka936 This has been a fact for the last 200 years. The Suez Canal is almost 200 YEARS OLD.
Bro's giving us tutorials💀
This is literally every villains dream channel🥶
*Homelander team starts playing*
u called it.
A stretch of area: *exists
RealLifeLore: Can you put Luxembourg in there?
Luxembourg is the new Toyota Corolla.
@@Devlinator61116 *T* *O* *Y* *O* *T* *A*
*T* *O* *Y* *O* *T* *A*
*T O Y O T A*
If ever you ask why Nuclear hiding *ISRAEL* hates Iran by it's very core. You found that out here in this video.
This needs to be a villian’s plot in a movie.
If it does, hunker down.
Predictive programming.
It is it called the USA
And the president who would dare make the U.S. energy independent might be removed from office for unlinking America's national interest from the Straits of Hormuz.
US of A is already at it
@@129das Iran is the country who keeps threatening to mine the strait.
Yup, a very important and dangerous strait to navigate. I served on the USS Carl Vinson during Operation Desert Fox in 1998 and we would go into full battle stations anytime we traveled in and out of the Persian Gulf through the Hormuz.
NOW* Make All Your Choices Wisely.
@@user-fi3hc8fy8p the wise choice is ceasefire
I recently had to write a short paper on geopolitics and I had to cite sources and the bulk of the info I shared was through your videos. Thank you so much for your videos and information that you share! It’s all very important to know!!
RealLifeLore teaches me more about the world than school did
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@@SophieMerau 69
Everything can destroy the damn world at this point 😂😂
Yea
The day that actual flying cars became a thing. All this trade points would become senseless pointless.
This is why oil industries and tycoons are still keeping everyone from discovering new tech towards a true global innovation.
@@rogueascendant6611 lol no mate. There is already air transport in the world. The reason we transport by sea is because its cheapest mode of transport.
@@rogueascendant6611 stupidest comment i’ve seen all week! congrats!
@@rogueascendant6611 planes exist I hope you know that
I agree with you that the Strait of hormuz might be the most important Strait as far as oil is concerned .
In my opinion, the suez canal is more critical as far as oil supply is concerned, especially for Europe taking into account the current situation of the war in Ukraine.
well, we saw that scenario in 1956, and no, Europe has changed heavily and won't go for escalation like before. Btw, Egypt has zero reasons to close the Canal, because it is dependant on the global trade, unlike batshit regime in Iran
A vessel from Japan or China to Europe has to cross 4 critical points:
The Malacca Strait between the Chinese Sea and the Indian Ocean, the said Strait of Hormus and the Suez Canal at both ends of the Red Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar.
Britain helped Singapore to become independent from Malaysia after their colonial rule of Malacca, they held the Suez Canal and still have Gibraltar, as well as the Spaniards hold Ceuta and Melilla opposite of Gibraltar.
And for the very same reason the USA assisted Panama to leave Colombia and held the Panama Canal Zone for a century.
One could say that Anglo-Saxon imperialism is by far the biggest threat to the international trade routes.
Thank you so much for these videos. They are so informative. I can't help thiking each of these would form the basis of the next 110 mission impossible movies!
RLL: "Here's a very real and disturbingly easy way to end the world."
"10/10 tutorial would recommend."
- A guy who wants to end the world
Someone copied your comment lmao
US:Heheh boi
Pipeline? What they need is a CANAL across the desert, far enough from the SoH to stop Iran from shelling.
Hi
"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today"
Build a damn in hormuz
Ferb was the brains
Plot twist. Pink and the brain beat you there
We are going to trigger every country in the world!!
"Fuck yeah, let's start WW3" -Suction Cup Man
Wow. spot on there.
I'm here at the perfect time.
Every single point is spoken as if it is the most mind blowing thing you will ever hear.
it kinda is
Lol he narrates like this in all the videos
Yesss!!!
followed by mispronouncing "cutter". /sigh 'kuh-taar"
Indeed. That’s why I had to stop watching after 6 minutes. I just can’t.
People joke about Americans using everything but metric, but RLL measures strictly in units of Luxembourg
But they are TAX-FREE units, and cheap to use! lol..
😂🤣
US uses Metric. I mix cm and inches all the time. Sometimes it's easier to convert volumes by walking them from cubic inches to liters and back to gallons.
The Toyota Corolla walked so Luxembourg can run
@@ClokworkGremlin Sir there are words in your formula!
It's complicated .
That's an understatement.
I served over there from 82 to 88.
It's as simple as distrust , betrayal and the use of a civilian airliner.
Crash a plane in there and boom.
So its an overstatement
@@behjat4106 yeah overstatement. It is simple.
The US CIA organized a coup due to a nudge by the British for oil and brought in the current shit regime.
I would like to mention a mistake in the animation showed from 1:42. Apparently the trade route to the baltic sea is shown to run north of denmark, but in reality The Kiel Canal links the north- and the baltic sea and saves 250NM instead of using the route around Jutland.
I'm not a navigator, but I'd think that a canal would have a difficult time handling a significant amount of shipping and it may just be easier for some of that traffic to go around the 250 NM. We're not talking about skirting Africa or South America. 250 NM is just around the corner.
@Michael the Kiel Canal handles about 90 ships per day and was built over a century ago. It's actually the world's most frequently used artificial waterway, and very important to trade in Northern Europe. Bit of a miss by the animation used for the video, even if it's not the subject of the video.
In shipping, anything that can knock time off of a trade route is a big deal. That 250 nm time savings each way adds up to huge operational cost savings for shipping companies, even while paying any canal tolls that exist.
The Kiel canal should have shown up in the 2:53 animation close-ups. At 1:42 it is world-wide and excusable especially if it was drawn as a white line in close-up.
The Kiel Canal is an extra release point for the Baltic to North Sea straights.
But, in the same vein, the Welland Canal is a choke point between Great Lakes & St. Lawrence and doesn’t get mention because it is not politically sensitive. But as long as the Danube is ignored so I guess the Seaway can be.
North Korea: write that down, *WRITE THAT DOWN*
Lol
@@magicdonut7125 couldn’t obliterate impoverished rice farmers tho 💀
@@breadstick3793 well whoever tries to take over the strait will most likely be a military with uniform personnel. So yes America can oblirate (China and Russia are exceptions). It's different from guerilla mixing with civilians in a dense rainforest.
Kim Jong Un actually has a Nebula subscription
@@magicdonut7125 what if they block the Panama Canal instead?
"Currently they rely on trade" - wow that felt like such a coded warning against Japan
Who knows? Japan might go get some resources through different means sometime later
What warning?
@ 臥龍 he’s implying that they currently rely on trade however who knows what will happen in the future with the changing climate and global population boom - implying that in the future Japan may be forced to go to war to keep the inflow of resources that it needs
Japan's "self-defense forces" are well-trained, well-equipped, and their navy is one of the best in the world. They also produce most of their own equipment in Japan for strategic reasons, even if it costs more that way. In addition, they're at the "bomb in the basement" stage as far as nuclear weapons development goes, meaning they could whip up functioning nuclear weapons and delivery systems with existing technology and infrastructure in a matter of months if they haven't already, in case of emergency... and they spend just 1% of their GDP on the military. I'm very happy that they're on our side.
@@callumsaunderson1089 "Who knows what will happen in the future" can be said for any country on the planet.
Japan today is a stable democracy and virtually all of its citizens are against war. A warning for Japan doesn't make sense.
In fact, if you look at post-WWII history, it's probably the US who should be warned about going to war lol.
Thank you for the information Sir
I sailed through there a bunch of times when things weren't so good. It was pretty tense.
Original title: Why this tiny spot could destroy the world.
Then he changed it to "Why Blocking This Spot Could Cause WW3"
i think that already happened
The second title is much more dramatic
What was the first one?
@@bngmapping WW3*
I can hardly wait to see RLL’s “Why Arrakis is the most important planet in the galaxy.”
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
From the manual of Muad'Dib, by the Princess irulan.
@@bentoth9555 The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
What I thought everyone knew this? Best drug in the Universe :)
@@mikep8080 its a dune reference its nothing to do with salvia
Well that DID age well....
This is a fantastic channel. Crazy good maps
"I have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz many times. If you can imagine traffic during the rush hours in the biggest cities, that's how is looks like to sail through that strait. Many many ships of various types and sizes. Hormuz is so important and it won't be closed till the last drop of oil. That's what I think" - Peter Pan
What? Why does Peter Pan care about the global economy?
@@jerry3790 Neverland is very reliant on oil imports from Iraq
@@Dwagoner i thought pixie dust can be manufactured without the need for oil?
I don’t get it
@@faiqcreates only recently tesla begin manufacturing electric pixie dust
Elon musk praised neverland's lack of child labor laws and moved a giga-factory there
This makes me understand what Frank Herbert was getting at in Dune. A massive civilization, dependent on one place.
The spice, I mean oil, must flow.
One place and one product. The analogy falls off though. Only one planet produced spice. Lots of countries produce their own oil, and America could be a net exporter if we wanted to. For some reason, our politicians semm to want to involve us in mideast conflicts, with no good reason to do so. Some combination of oil investments, military spending and partisan politics perhaps.
@@bobbarclay3203 domestic oil production requires fracking which is pretty dirty
@@MajorMlgNoob Yeah, and so is strip mining. Not 10 miles from where I live are old strip mine sites. On them are several wind farms generating electricity that is fed into the power grid. Around the wind farms are many square miles of state owned forest and game lands that were acquired by the State from the coal companies. On those lands are public trails, trout streams, deer, bears, turkeys, rabbits and squirrels, and coyotes. Many of the smaller farms that surround this forest can't support themselves on crops, and the land is valuable as recreation property. If the farmers sell, the development would enclose and encroach on the recovering forest. So landowners maintain and suport their farms by allowing fracking on there land, for which they are paid fairly well. The drillers extract natural gas, which, until recently was intended to be piped to ports and shipped to Europe, which attains some of its environmental goals by burning gas instead of coal. We would not have needed to allow Russia to build the NORD pipeline. Our national balance of payments would improve, the dollar would be worth more, and American workers would have benefitted.
Fracking causes nowhere near the damage that strip mining did, but society found a way to get the use of the coal, and improve the state we live in, each at the appropriate time. Fracking provides multiple benefits to society which should be evaluated honestly, not the least of which are economic. If you oppose fracking thinking its dangerous, dirty, or harmful to the environment you are paying attention to partisan politics, not environmental science.
But that was because of the universal spice addiction...
Just go the longer way around
Bro literally holds the meaning of the word "Unbiased" himself!!!❤
RLL: "currently, they rely on trade"
That "currently" is scaring me!
That currently is indeed scary
@@yaziri7 It's only a matter of time !
@@AymenDZA *orange
Dziri?
@@rohankishibe8259 of course lol
I love your videos. It something i watch while i eat for lunch everyday and I get to learn something new everyday too.
Thank you for the valuable content
This guy is very expressive, I could feel the tension everytime he stresses a word.
If you can decipher the thick accent😅
@@villewintermaul1907 uh he really doesn't have a accent
@I like turtles I thought it was just me. I’m thinking, “Dude just calm down. I want to hear what you have to say and he’s talking like … OH MY GOD Becky…. Look at the Straight of Hormuz “ 🤣. So dramatic brother
@@Kelz_X Totally.
Shock Jock ???
"Every single day humanity consumes 9 million barrels of oil a day."
I can't really undestand why, I mean it doesn't really taste that good.
Oil has a greassy taste, but its good, especially your joints
Drum kick snare
NO!🤣
Not so funny
Still its so funny
i just tasted it i feel funny
I love how much you pay attention to the geography in your videos
Love these video they are amazing thank you.
Plot twist: RealLifeLore only knows this kind of shit because he's plotting to take over the world
Let's be honest though... if you're not at least *plotting* to take over the world, what are you even doing with your life
If he was, he would not broadcast it.
...or WOULD he???
@@JimRFF I’m pretty sure everyone at least thought of it once in their life
@@ChineduOpara hmm maybe that's his plan.
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Man, I forgot the Suez canal happened this year. What a cluster-youknowwhat of a year this has been
"Just another Nazi test"
just say fuck
@@dendaky 😂😂😭😭💀💀
@@dendaky meh, I can cuss easily it's much more fun to add pg-ish embellishments. And if everyone who already knows the word I mean then it doesn't matter but if kids are watching with their parents and look at the comment section and the kids asks what's "you know what" the parents have the option to explain or not. Just my two cents though .
@@Eli-fj3sc cool you do you
Your video are so amazing!!
Always interesting, thank you.
The joy I experience when I see you upload is immense. I’m a geography/history nerd and I learned so much from your videos.
Same here
Same here
Same
Hame sere
yeah because you all just happen to coincidentally be geographers
I've never heard "15 percent" been said with such passion before. It's yuge!
Fifffteeen percccent!
It got a bit annoying after he repeated it about the gulf, then Japan, then Korea.
Like highlighting the entire book, emphasizing for so long.
Absolutely “tremendous”
In the context of world trade, 15% is quite a bit
Ha Ha Ha !
Very informant,thank you from Bulgaria :)
Excellent presentation...as usual!
Imagine nature throwing a good ol' rock to clog those 30 miles of water
not good.......NOT GOOOD !!!!!!
Nuke.
@@estebanslavidastic4382 Nuke would make it bigger :D irradiated as hell, but much bigger
@@alesthra more nukes. All the nukes.
Unlikely, but if a meteor happened to Land at the exact spot, then we are doomed
That thumbnail looks so good
Lmao u have 170k subs and can’t even get 50k views your yt Channel is dead 😂😂
I wish I had subs.
Jepi Sun lol he got roasted
@@TannerGoated and you have 2 subs your channel is dead😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@TannerGoated actually that’s pretty good lol
Thank you for another very interesting video,
"About 70% of it, to be precise"
Was exactly where I knew I didn't need to see or hear any more.
“Currently, they rely on trade.”
Not sure why but that was funny
History repeats itself.
You won't be laughing when tree'll start speaking Japanese
*but what if, WE REMOVED THE “CURRENT”?*
because you have the maturity of a 15 yr old?
@@VL1975 Were you offended because you have the emotional intelligence of a 5 year old
Saying “the entire known universe” has always been funny to me it’s literally like saying ill fight anybody in this room while standing in an outhouse
it's like the US calling their baseball cup the world series *eyeroll*
@@wp12mv ah yes, but dont you know, America is world?
@@wp12mv I wasn't aware that was illegal.
@@wp12mv but it is a World Series.
@@wp12mv considering the best players in the world come to the US to play, and half the players aren't American, it sort of makes sense lol
We NEED more of these type of videos because it teaches you lots and it NOT boring true GOAT
Excellent video!!
"The most important place to understand in the entire known universe."
The Sun, Moon and Earth: "Are we a joke to you?"
Yes.
I didn’t know the US could block the diameter of the sun.
@@coolxg4357 he said understand not block
Stupid crappy clickbait bs
*laughs in Sagittarius A*
Me: drops a grain of sand in the choke point
Everyone: so you chose death
😂
What does this even mean? You're not even thirty right? Be honest
@@MajDuty it is s joke
@@MajDuty r/whooosh
@@MajDuty can't take a joke??
Really great video
Went on RUclips to find peace in my soul, I need a heart monitor now
Imagine blocking the Gibraltar Strait ...
You would get invaded by someone… or by the UN.
Thats why we keep Gibraltar and its so important.
At the other end we had Suez canal.
After Nasser nationalise it was allways being closed.
Jabal tariq
Then you'd start war with the E.U , America and even the commonwealth
WHY NOT MALACCA STRAIT? INDIA 🇮🇳 CAN, TO BLOCK THE ROGUE & EXPANSIONIST CHINA 🇨🇳!
Evergreen Ship: *HEY Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today.*
uh oh
Very useful, thanks
Hope ya got a good mark for this project little fella✌🏻👍🏻
My dad has always said the most important thing in this life is to learn something new each day.
Your channel helps me do so in an interesting way. Thank you for helping to keep my father's advice at my fingertips.
Vladimir Lenin learned English from an Irishman. So when Irish diplomats met him, they were shocked to hear a thick Irish accent coming from him.
There's another fact you may or may not have known.
Summary: it's the strait of Hormuz, because over 50% of world's oil flows through it (only 20% of which can flow through alternative routes if necessary), and it's easy to be closed off by the Iran military, which is why America has many bases nearby. America and Iran has a long bad relationship and has been on the edge of war recently.
Thank you. The Ego on this videoteam makes you think you forgot something you already knew.
U just saved me 17 mins of my life thank you
I don't understand why Iran would ever close to though? It would be every single country vs Iran pretty much. No gain for them at all, they would get destroyed.
@@beth-ug6ti some people just wanna see the world burn
I suspect the real reason is that the USA wants those resources.
Thanks for the tip
After a quick check of a map, the cargo traffic channels look like they have areas that are shallower than a container ship’s total height. (25m depth vs. 30m keel to top on a mid-sized container vessel). Which means even non-state actors have the capacity to shut down the Strait of Hormuz by sinking a couple of them mid-channel, perhaps with bombs planted while they were in port. 3.2km (2mi) per lane isn’t as wide as one might think for vessels with as much momentum as cargo ships have.
8:24 Japan at times uses war to secure natural resources, while at other times they use trade. *Currently, they rely on trade.*
Yes, we all saw it
How did I not realize how funny that is? XD
For now
@@brileylampo Shut up, of course you saw It
@@brileylampo No need to tell us lol
I sailed through the Strait of Hormuz in a naval ship. Didn't get to see anything because it's doctrine to completely button up the ship and have everybody stay inside except for the guys manning the machine guns and an escort heli. Just gives you an idea of how sketchy that area is.
Persians don't like outsiders
A bit of overreacting here i guess
Sketchy because foreign naval military ships always sailing through there.
The US Navy ship I was stationed on traversed the Straits of Hormuz numerous times. On one of those occasions the ship lost all power in the middle of the night. We were DIW (dead in the water). The only weapons system we had at that point was small arms. It was only for about 3 minutes. People were rushing around trying to get the engines and generators back up. It was quite terrifying. Luckily our engines came back on and we made it safely through.
@@jimcrackz nah it was definitely because of the unavoidable proximity to Iran.
Well well well
Great information
Kinda terrifying that such a narrow bit of ocean has the power to throw the world into total chaos.
And seeing what chaos happened at suez where there still was the workaround going around Africa just causing massive delays and limiting ships/container due to the longer turnaround time.
But here it would be a total stop
@@mammutMK2 agree
That explains the British Empire, just wedge your ships in the gaps depending on the country, only allowing your own trade to go through and no one else until the other side concedes to your wishes… there were no planes back then.
Low-key genius, explains why countries rush for naval blockades before anything else/why submarines are so dangerous.
What's even more terrifying is being a submariner deployed for months at a time directly in that area. Now, imagine only having seconds to make a decision rather or not your ship can maneuver at periscope depth or if an emergency deep is required. No one can see you so they're not stopping and just about every ship there can slice open the people tank without much effort.
didnt bother you when you thought it was your empire that was in control 😂
"The oil must flow. He who controls the oil, controls the universe!"
Until fusion. Or Diamond Nuclear Batteries.
"the universe" .... u mean this shitty little planet. at most.
@@kosmique this planet is the only important thing out there 🤣
@@kosmique It's a reference bro
@@kosmique it's a Dune (?) reference bro lol
Amazing stuff, which software do you use btw?
And now in 2024 we are seeing how vital that strait really is.
Let's just excavate it a bit and put Luxembourg there, that seems like a fun idea for a couple days
*hour
It'll only cause WW3, let's go do it!
@@neonbunnies9596 the world has gotten very boring lately,we need some excitement
@@petarmladenovic6124
God seeing this after sending corona virus :
'_'
Is this a minecraft project?
"He who controls Spice, controls the universe!" - Baron Harkonnen (Dune)
The spice must flow!
"The power to destroy a thing, is absolute control over it" - Paul Atreides
In this case, oil.
The oil must flow!
I’d love to power my cars with spice please
Ordos > Harkonnen
Thanks, RealLifeLore.
With the economies around the Persian gulf so reliant on oil, what steps - if any - are they taking to avoid going bankrupt when the major economies go green and oil demand plummets?
I think they realize that going green only gets economies so far. Oil demand will continue.
Probably by raking in as much money as they can for as log as they can. Can't go bankrupt if you are the wealthiest corner on the planet.
Oil will always be in demand. Fuel is not the only thing we use oil for. A good portion of the worlds plastic uses oil in their production. It is used for heating, electricity, make-up, creyons, computers, cell phones and the list goes on. Anything that manufactures something with either tools or machines, which is about every manufacturing tradecraft, uses oil in some way or another, directly or indirectly. Oil is not going away inside this century and probably not the next either, although the future is the hardest to predict.
I wonder why they havent built a canal tha goes straight through. it's not they don't have the money
@@abaddon1371 With alternative fuel sources, oil will drop in demand to the point where they won't have quite the bargaining tool and their little cabal will cease to be so damn relevant.
Jeopardy: “It’s the backbone of RealLifeLore’s narration.”
Me: “What is hyperbole ?”
@@Dyzzi511 oohh I'm sorry, that's incorrect. We were looking for 'where' is Luxemburg. Let's move to the Daily Double.
@@kloudkuromeshi The rules say it has to be in the form of a question, but doesn't say it has to be the correct form of the question. There was an episode recently where someone replied "What is...." when referring to a person. "Jeopardy!" stated that as long as the answer is given in the form of a question, it doesn't have to be grammatically correct. They even stated that using "Is it..." has been accepted.
@@mrgreengenes04 mans just explaining the rules of a tv show-
@@spiyder and I learned something new thanks to that
@@mrgreengenes04 that was the joke, but I appreciate your explanation nonetheless.
Whenever the US is threatened by a country, they build military bases around that country to contain it. Lol
Ed Zachary. The military knows what to do, our politicians screw it up every time.
You’re not wrong
Jason Chinas dping the same thing.
Yes, comrade
@@teodelfuego its comrade xi not me.
Before clicking the video I thought "better not tell Evergreen", but of course you had it covered
you're awesome dude
As a geography teacher, I will use this to teach modern issues
Your must be a dam good geography teacher I hope your class acknowledges that
TEACH SUPPLY AND DEMAND. that choke point means nothing the u.s. starts to drill again...remember -$0 oil. lol....when oil companies had to PAY for people to take oil.....TRUMP 2024
@@teddymoon3744 Explain to your students The Cape of Good Hope is not a choke point.
There is a 4000 km gap between South Africa and Antarctica.
I wish I found this when we were doing our Southwest Asia unit, would have been great. Too bad the formats too long to keep my seventh graders attention.
@@danh9841 u underestimate the young.....if u reach 1 then youve changed the world...just do it. try...your not losing any money
The overwrought narration is a bit exhausting at times, honestly, but the video as a whole is great. Very informative.
Sprained my eyes rolling them so hard at the introduction
Literally any country: We found oil.
U.S.A: So you've chosen democracy
Russia produces lots of oil. Where is democracy?
US has enough oil.
@Black Joe because of the Taliban lol.
@@dmeads5663 Of course they do, and in the sense of capitalism since Middle East oil are nearer to Europe and Asia which contains the 2nd,3rd and 10th economies in the world, surely they will buy US oil right?
more accurate for u.s to just place sanctions and invade
"about 70% of it to be precise." That's not how 'precise' works.
Haha
How does it work then
@@tukuhauaitu8296 something like "exactly 70,01%"
Lol, those were my thoughts
@@tukuhauaitu8296 without words like "about" which by definition denote something that isn't precise.
2024 checking in
I am sorry I can't use Nebula - the server says "Encountered an error".
But nevermind, I liked this video for its good explanation of geopolitics, and the blunt statement that we are just using irreplaceable resources.
Actually, part of the reason for the massive tailbacks you’re seeing in LA ports is because it’s currently considerably cheaper to transport goods across the USA by road to the east coast rather than pay passage fees through the Panama Canal.
You know this from wendover productions?
It's not the fees it's that fact that 80% of our shipping ships don't even fit down the canal
Bidens bad policies are also partly to blame for the blockage. It is happening everywhere in the country. I used to work at a gas station in a very heavy trucking road, and like 90% of our lot was constantly empty, and any trucks sitting in the lot were just sitting there for weeks at a time.
@@SlayingSin 🤦♂️
@@SlayingSin Bro, this blockage issue has been going on long before Biden, and his policies have little impact on the overall situation. His lack of policies on the other hand, maybe but we have a democracy where policies can’t be passed
In short, he’s bringing this up due to the increasing relevance of the new Cold War between the US and China. The Strait of Hormuz is just one of the points of contention between the world’s major alliances, if you want to call it that. You can read about the SCO(Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) of which Iran just became a member of on September 17. It also includes China, Russia, Pakistan, and some other countries in Central Asia. It’s like a sort of Eurasian Bloc. It’s main opponent is of course the US, NATO, Japan, and their allied countries.
There are other points of contention as well, such as the Strait of Malacca, the Ukrainian conflict, Syrian Civil War, Taiwan, etc. Basically whoever edges out on top of these conflicts will gain a lot of power for decades to come. For our rulers the world map looks a lot like a chessboard, and this is the game that is being played. Once you start to understand that a lot of these things become much clearer.
So foreign policy is just Risk IRL?
Tylor Pendleton: very well said and analysis of geopolitical situation of the world...
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@Gopal Dewasi No friend, the new Cold War is not between India and China, although they both are in the opposite camps. It's not even between USA and China, although they both are the main opponents. We have to think in geopolitical terms. The new Cold War is between the sea powers (USA, UK, Med countries etc) and the land powers (China, Russia, Germany etc) It is a new version of the Peloponnesian War, which was between Athens + allies (sea) vs Sparta + allies (land). Thucydides is becoming contemporary once again!
My country - Luxembourg - was mentioned!! Nice! xD
Thanks!
The Bosphorus and Dadanells could bottle a significant part of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. The Russians were rabid about keeping their port on The Crimean Peninsula, but they still suffer from potentially being landlocked with the exception of Vladivostok during the months of heavy sea ice. I think that is why the Russians are developing hypersonic missiles that could even be fired from immobilized ships.
The Baltic fleet exists?
@Al Ram i resantly brought a washing machine made in Turkey does that count?
_sad baltic fleet noises_
They have a port in Europe.
Kaliningrad is ice-free year-round.