>>2787045Thing is the US is a major oil producer that doesnt need to use the strait to move its load.
(Same for Russia btw)
So it's actually about forcing Iran to feel the pain from the Strait being blocked
(since it's an oil economy just like pretty much everyone in the ME),
it's just that for Iran to feel the pain everyone in the world needs to feel the pain too, including amerifats in some sense.
But that's a sacrifice we're willing to make.
And for everyone else there is no alternative.
In a sense this is Trump taking the war to the next level.
Before the new military reality he ushered in is that US could attack the political leadership of any country with no warning or motive, no UN or NATO backing or anything just totolly on the fly.
Now the new reality is that the US can break the Law of The Sea and just use its navy broadly for any political and economic objective on any country.
And if China and Russia let it slide it just proves that the US is not only the world police as it became decades ago but strait up the shot caller and overlord of the world and the global sovereign, no if and buts.
With "resistence" amounting only to local deterrence but in no way representing an opposing force or alternate power.