this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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Everyone attempts to rush the strait, getting bottlenecked and congested and picked off like flies
haven't seen anybody mention this but if a shitload of ships get wrecked in the strait of hormuz, well, they're no mines but all that wreckage doesn't exactly improve how navigable it will be
Can Americanism be this great again?
You'd need way way way more ships
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at the narrowest point the strait is 20 miles wide
yeah but even that whole width isn't necessarily usable as it is, I read something like the shipping lanes are like 2 miles wide in either direction? seems like that'd be for a reason idk
Lotsa people don't know this... But if you pretend a chokepoint isn't a chokepoint then no chokepoint is there. Simple. No problems. Also - woke bad.
We call it the Three Stooges stratagem