Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Shipping and the Red Sea (Attacks on Tankers) || Peter Zeihan" video.

@davidjones6389 It's going to effect their trade with Europe. Duh. Listen to Peter.
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@davidjones6389 Just their income. Oops.
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Way back then, Israel imported everything via the Med -- not the Red Sea. Red China was not a factor at all... same as India. Commercially, Israel just does not use its port on the Red Sea -- such as it is. That whole area is dominated by Israeli tourists. (!) Haifa is the Big Deal for Israel. It was the original starting point for the Hajiz railway -- which actually started at the Haifa docks. Google around and you can find the typical Big Launch photo from that event. ( Counterintuitively, that railway started out from the docks and headed to Derna which is right on the Syrian/Jordanian border. Derna, its HQ, was where water could be sourced for its steam locomotives. It features in Lawrence of Arabia -- where he takes a licking. If you Google around, you can find photos of the bridges he destroyed -- never repaired to this day! The very border between Syria (France's zone) and Jordan (Britain's zone) was determined by this railway line at the end of WWI!) Once Haifa got Big because of the Hajiz railway, it never lost its top spot for the British Mandate's logistics. The fact that Hezbollah is within shooting distance of Haifa means that war up north is coming -- for sure. Jerusalem can't even permit the Hez to launch a first strike.
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Too expensive, and would cancel their insurance, straight away.
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@nicmainville9954 Yup. ALL of the light fractions that end up being gasoline are in crude oil from the start. So, most crude oils are absolutely as touchy as gasoline -- whose vapors naturally evaporate right out of crude oil -- to linger. See also: oil well fires. (!)
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He diss's Trump at every turn, and Colorado is his home. So, he's conflicted.
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@TheAmrthe2nd The IDF did have naval vessels impacted., and presumably even fishing vessels. (Which never get any press during the Big News) And, of course, ANY naval blockade has been deemed a legit belligerent cause for war going back centuries. Israel, for propaganda purposes, wanted this aspect brought out, front and center, in as much as the IDF had struck Egypt, Syria and Jordan first with air strikes and land warfare. The REAL reason the IDF moved first is because her spies had spilled the beans: the Arabs were colluding to attack -- yet again -- same as 1948. This aspect could not be publicly admitted as it would expose its spy networks. So for years and years, the Israelis never admitted that they had advance knowledge that their opponents were conspiring against them. They were dithering over the last details -- as the Arabs all wanted war -- but did not really trust each other all that much. Thinking like Napoleon, the IDF moved first, to make sure that the Arabs could not coordinate their armies, their air forces. It gets more complex because the IDF was also playing radio games with the Arabs. See: the USS Liberty -- and just how far they'd go and how desperate the IDF was. The Liberty 'stunt' almost triggered WWIII -- which, somehow, is always omitted by pop historians. Instead, they point to 1962 -- which was no where as perilous. In 1967, the USN had atomic bombs on their way to attack the Soviet fleet... with afterburners on! They were turned around only at the last second -- shades of "Fail Safe' -- the movie. All of this was held secret for years and years. You just never read of it in the popular press.
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@talkinghand122 The extra is about two-weeks, not two-months. It's ironic, the Houthis are redeeming ship owners who have clearly over built their fleets... a world wide phenomenon. Actual retail demand for Red Chinese toys has fallen off a cliff. Ask Hasbro. (!)
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Their 'base' in Eritrea is cheek-by-jowl with the American base there. That's its function... spying.
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We do have normal relations with both nations, embassys, the whole works. What are you talking about?
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@playea123 KSA is a nation whose oil exports NATO can't live without. Think France, Germany, Italy, Greece... the whole shooting match. Israel is a nation that the Democrat party can't live without, though that appears to be very rapidly changing. The fact is that the US is a Status Quo Power that shuns most 'border adjustments' by force of arms. The US has refused to recognize Putin's 2014 'adjustments' in Ukraine -- and Israel's 'adjustments' in the West Bank -- two examples out of the many. Bibi, of course, wants to 'adjust' West Bank boundaries -- in the retail -- ie house by house, if he has to. Because of decades of Israeli encroachments, it's now impossible for an Arab enclave to be viable in the West Bank -- which was the intent -- from the first. The question now is, how can you force an atomic power to shrink its borders? No-one has an answer. It's what's dogging Zelenskyy WRT Putin's antics, too. The West refuses to really put the pressure on, to allow Kyiv to cross into Russia -- in the manner of Pregozin. Such a shocker would collapse the Kremlin. Its reserves are all in Ukraine.
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They've held off their fellow Yemenis. The Saudis always refused to commit its own boys to ground fighting. Dropping bombs was just about as far as they would go. The Hudna between the Saudis and Houthis is entirely due to economic strikes against Saudi oil infrastructure. This has also caused the Saudis to suck up to Tehran -- as Biden does NOT have their back. Way to go, Blinken.
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The USN has developed laser counter-drone defenses. If they are operational, the USN is not admitting same. But, considering the deployment location, and the shear number of drones knocked down, it smells like the USN is not using missiles. The USN could be using old fashioned gun action, electronic jamming + gun action... or a few last second missile shots. So far, mum's the word.
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The Saudis's young men do not want to die for their King. So, there involvement always was from a distance -- as in 40,000 feet. All of the ground fighting was left to Yemenis aligned with Riyadh -- a LONG standing arrangement dating back a full century. ( Ibn Saud, the founder, used Yemeni camel riders to conquer Arabia -- way back when. Because of this, he promised them that their descendants could obtain Saudi documents -- read passports -- forever -- at no expense. THIS is why the MSM is corn fused about 9-11. ALL of the so-called Saudi fanatics were Yemenis with these Saudi passports. That did not make them Saudis -- same as OBL's beef. His father was a mega-rich Yemeni general contractor. So, OBL was a Yemeni in the eyes of every Arab. Having a Saudi mother counts for nothing over there, same as ones passport.)
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Cape Town can't take ANY more visitors. South Africa's 'government' functions like a Democrat run city. Just imagine how Adams or Johnson would run things way, way down south. Blaming is an art form in Pretoria: Boors -- BAD!
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Iran is not giving the Houthis their best stuff -- yet. Tehran wants the illusion of deniabilty.
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@publius09 The fanatics are so high on their supply that it's amazing that they know when the Sun is up. Look at the photos -- the boys have cheeks bulging with kat -- and big wads they must have. Remember the crazies that Captain Philips had to deal with? BTW, remember that OBL came from Yemen, as did his Black Watch. (body guard) Further, back when Somalis were pirating everything in sight, such operations were actually run from Yemen -- by AQ. True, but edited out by the MSM... at the request of the Pentagon. They had spies/finks at all of the ports of call -- which is why the pirates were miraculously finding wealthy yachts so far at sea.
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