The real story is that the Patriot and other interceptor stockpiles Zelensky's asking for are now critically low, and tens of thousands of soft targets are hard to defend against cheap drones. This war is on course to set off a truly unprecedented global energy crisis within days, and the USA/allies don't currently appear to have any plan to fix it.

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dmix 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> on course to set off a truly unprecedented global energy crisis within days

That's not exactly how oil supply works. There's plenty of stockpiles which take months to burn through and only some places depend on Iranian oil. China is their biggest buyer and it's around 13.4% of China's oil imports.

	▲	yread 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		it's not just about iranian oil. The strait is blockaded. Plus refineries in Kuwait, KSA and Bahrain were targeted. And LNG facilities in Qatar - which stopped and restarting will take ~1 month at least. Leading to this https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eu-natural-gas Gas in EU is cca 100% more expensive than a week ago. EDIT: oh and kerosene 70% up, diesel 35% percent up

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logicchains 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>the USA/allies don't currently appear to have any plan to fix it

Their plan is to bomb Iran into the stone age so it can't produce any more drones or missile launchers. It's questionable whether they can succeed though.

	▲	Zigurd 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In any relevant dimension Iran is about 4X or 5X Iraq. Even Dubya knew you couldn't win in Iraq from the air.
	▲	idontwantthis 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Strategic bombing has never achieved it's objectives.
	▲	bdangubic 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		it is not questionable - they will no succeed. if this is how you "succeed" we would have already "succeeded" long time ago