Considering Saudi Arabia was bypassing the blockade of the Hormuz Strait by piping as much oil as they could to the Red Sea, this is going to cut that off (or significantly increase the insurance costs). Things just keep getting worse in the oil supply chain. It's a shame we didn't focus more on increasing the supply from renewable alternatives.

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lostlogin a day ago | parent | next [-]

> It's a shame we didn't focus more on increasing the supply from renewable alternatives.

I don’t that was going to happen without a supply crisis. It turns out cost is more motivating than the planet cooking.

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cromka 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My hot take: if there's one thing one could wish US would use their military for, is fixing the piracy in this region once and forever, mostly by forcing Somali to do so.

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nradov 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why should this be a US responsibility? Very little of our trade runs past Somalia and Yemen. The ship in this incident is Togolese and they're not even a treaty ally. Our previous attempt at intervention didn't work. Let someone else fix the problem.

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cromka 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It shouldn't be your responsibility, just like several dozens of other interventions shouldn't. Yet here we are. Also, why are you talking about this particular ship when I'm clearly talking about piracy at large in this region?

	▲	nradov 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ok so then we agree that it's not a US responsibility unless a US flagged ship is involved. Togo can fend for itself.

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acdha 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If that was a military problem, they’d have done it. Unfortunately, it’s a societal problem and you can’t bomb governments into functioning or people out of poverty.

	▲	cromka 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Terrorism is also a societal problem, not a military one. This was never a problem for them.