Tuesday, June 24, 2025

An excerpt from an India media outlet, and Morgan Freeman narrerates stuff.

A short video, with projected numbers.

Morgan Freeman here and here, with more stuff here:

 https://www.youtube.com/@MORGANFREEMAN-b7f 

 Without knowing much beyond those links, such as how they are funded or maintained, and sponsored and scripted if not by the speaker himself,  there is uncertainty where Denzel Washington is similarly featured. See, also, https://www.youtube.com/@DenzelLegacy-g8r.

What/who/why questions arise beyond the content, what is said and why said that way and not otherwise.

Discovering stuff online is only a part of understanding in multiple aspects, stuff online.

More perhaps on shutting the Strait of Hormuz.  I have seen it described as 21 miles wide, with two mile wide shipping lanes both ways separated by two miles. Presumably shallows and terrain dictate no wider traffic. One source said 2km, and not 2mi.

Can Iran shut the traffic down, and will they and if so, for how long to make a point?

Mining, mine removal, and remining would be a low cost for Iran to explore, a question being how sophisticate is their capability to mine, the technology they have, and countermeasures. It is wide open to speculation given how much coverage has been in the past, and what Iranian decisions may be now.

There is online strong suggestion that the Iranian parliament has reached a decision to close the Strait. 

It seems the case. Where things go from that decision to impact on the world economy is unclear.

North Dakota fracking's break even point may again be exceeded on a price per barrel basis, and how that and Permian Basin pumping can match the need if the Strait becomes inoperative seems to suggest a deficit in coverage pumping. That and a tariff war together can spell disaster of a scale the Grat Depression reached. Hope it is not so, but wait and see.