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Can't wait for the USN to start blowing up Chinese tankers and cargo ships.
Or seizing SK and Japanese vessels for that matter.
Are we going to prevent our most Asian important allies from receiving energy supplies that could prevent, or at least significantly delay, their complete economic collapse?
Your already witnessing an economic collapse. The US paid more in interest than they made in tax revenue.
This was is the last struggle of a dying world reserve currency. Happens everytime in history. The next step is civil war and spreading the "wealth". Then the final step is getting used to the lower quality of life that we can afford after we raises the "wealth" wasn't real because most people don't understand what wealth is.
The average US household is going to be generational because the spending power of the dollar will be shit compared to the new world reserve currency. The YUAN.
I keep seeing posts like this and they make a lot of sense. Do you have any recommendations on where someone might read up on this or should I just start googling stuff like "what happens when countries collapse?" "German economy after WW1" "currency collapse of ancient Rome" etc etc
https://lemmy.zip/c/collapse
In the collapse community people have been aware of a "thermodynamic" collapse of energy supplies for quite a while.
So for example, to mainstream people and the investors, there is something called 'oil' which seems like a commodity item.
In the collapse community, worldwide supplies of diesel and heavy oil energy products (shipping, trucking, agriculture, mining and gasoline refining among many other applications) has been in a 10-year long period of decline with major implications for our global civilization.
(Diesel / heavy crude comes from several places globally. The USA has run out but Venezuela and Iran are two heavy hitters for the molecules needed.)
The blockade on the strait is only having any impact because it's a zero sum game now that nobody can raise production any higher. Like you don't see Norway and Canada suddenly ramping up and filling demand, right?
I consider this the most parsimonious and cogent world view.
In a short summary: the blockade is an artificial shortage that is designed to collapse and bankrupt the most dependent and vulnerable nations in the global periphery, which is a "triage" that preserves oil supplies for the wealthy nations in the long run. Like this triggers collapse, and then as a second order effect global demand will fall for energy which is in an irreversible depletion event. This is the only way the most developed nations extend their existence through the crash.
This is all an open secret, you can dig into technical papers and agency reports and academic publications, everything will say the same thing. However, this is not really a "mainstream" consciousness.