World News

2461 readers

1167 users here now

Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.

Other Great Communities:

Rules

Be excellent to each other

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Deceptichum@quokk.au

Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com

113

Only ‘idiots’ expect North Korea to give up nuclear weapons: Kim Yo-jong (www.scmp.com)

submitted 4 days ago by MashedHobbits@lemy.lol to c/world@quokk.au

32 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It's sort of one-time-use though. Now that it's been used, the gulf states are building pipelines to bypass the gulf and vulnerable countries are taking the opportunity to decarbonize. If the straight opened tomorrow, these countries would continue those efforts to reduce their strategic vulnerability. It won't be as strong of a deterrent the second time around.

Also, a nuke is supposed to deter aggression. It didn't do that.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

It's not a 1 to 1, and the strait still provides a huge capacity for oil flow that pipelines do not have. Further still, the world is transitioning to solar (at greater and lesser rates), reducing the importance of pipelines anyways.