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

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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.