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Can't Iran be selective and only allow Chinese ships through?

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The USA could block Chinese ships. Or maybe disable the loading jetties.

This works as the same feature reversed. Will think of a way of adding something like this

Ah yes, open war with a superpower.

Why haven’t the USA done that already?

It’s so obvious!

Sometimes I think that's Trump endgame. Destroy world's economy, solve debt with massive dollar de-valuation, and uses its resource advantages to reindustrialize itself.

Of course, that would fuck most of the world population, including the American Poor and The Middle Class.

But I don't think this would weight too much on Trump's conscience.

I have been hoping China would force this issue. Send an oil tanker through and see if the US has the balls to stop it. Either the US does and everyone gets peeved or the US lets it float away and look incredibly impotent.

China can get what they want, a weakened USA, just by sitting back and doing nothing. There's probably no incentive to get involved more directly.

This is a nice idea. I will build this a feature on the scenarios menu. And it would give an estimate of how much time doing this buys China under different configurations

It has been doing it for some time. Not full flows, but a significant number of ships have passed with a chinese destination.

Probably that was the reason the US also instituted a blockage, but I don't think the US navy would shoot a chinese flagged super tanker.

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