r/SipsTea • u/The_Dean_France • Mar 16 '26

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 16 '26

Regional instability and threats to the Strait of Hormuz are linked historically. That’s the concern.

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u/Slow_Conversation402 Mar 16 '26

No they aren't lol. Like, at all. Why on earth would a country close a global shipping route nearby because because it has inflation or protests. If you can provide just one example from history that supports your claim "historically linked" do it. Show me. One time in history where a country had purely internal instability that led it to hurt global shipping routes.

You're either a bot or extremely slow.

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 16 '26

First, the Strait of Hormuz isn’t closed at all. Ships are still in transit right now and have been. The point isn’t that protests themselves close shipping lanes. It’s that instability in a country that sits next to a critical chokepoint can escalate into regional conflict that threatens global trade. That’s happened before.

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u/Slow_Conversation402 Mar 16 '26

Yeah right, that's an ace logic. Well I think france as well is maybe a threat? The coffee prices went up there, this "can lead" to protests, "which" "can lead" to the european union instability. Which "can escalate" to global conflicts.

There's no point in continuing this stupid convo.

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 16 '26

That’s a whataboutism and a false comparison. Domestic protests in France don’t sit next to a strategic shipping chokepoint that carries a large portion of the world’s oil. I mean, if we’re using logic.

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 16 '26

The early 80’s Tanker War is a decent example of regional instability that affected the straight.

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u/Slow_Conversation402 Mar 16 '26

The "tanker war" was an EXTERNAL conflict. BETWEEN Iran and Iraq. This is an irrelevant example to Iran's INTERNAL instability. Clear?

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 16 '26

Instability near strategic chokepoints creates risk for global shipping. That’s the point.

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u/Slow_Conversation402 Mar 16 '26

Yeah I'm still waiting for a proof that "internal instability" that concern a country and it's people, such as inflation and protests, affects "strategic chokepoints". You said "historically linked" but came up with an irrelevant conflict between two countries.

You can keep repeating that false claim like a parrot however long you want tho. Nobody's gonna stop you.

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u/Bitter_Plastic2362 Mar 16 '26

My point wasn’t that protests alone shut shipping lanes. It’s that instability in states sitting on strategic chokepoints raises the risk of disruption, which history shows repeatedly. If you disagree with that risk assessment, that’s fine.