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Ridiculous.
The obvious solution is bucket chain. It works out logistically as well, no need for infrastructure you see, the buckets are the infrastructure! After nth number of buckets of oil have been sent, you simply send one with water, one with food and a third bucket for shitting and pissing in. The sewage is dumped into the ocean at the end. You can even transport people in the buckets down the line for shift changes.
Also, It creates jobs and a bucket demand, stimulating the local economy.
Admittedly, I haven't figured out the bucket return logistics yet.
Just throw the bucket in the ocean when you're done with it. The water's like right there.
Here me out, buckets for carrying buckets back!
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Why would you ever go with the uncool truck solution while this solution is on the table??
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I support this because it really makes literal the US gulping down the world's resources through a straw
the flammable liquid produced in the upper crust of the earth will surely be transported safely through the numerous mantle layers and outer core of the earth
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Lmao liberals discovering why pipelines exist is funny af it will never get old to me
Or, hear me out, a train line specifically designed to carry goods.
Even that's not gonna be efficient enough for this problem lol. They need like, a continuous supply of barrels, in the region of 1000-3000 per minute, every single minute of the day 24/7.
It's A LOT.
I agree, I was more just riffing on the running joke that liberals will go for all types of ‘futuristic’ transport options, like the hyperloop and boring company, that are essentially worse versions of a train.
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There is a paved overland route, from Abu Dhabi to Al Ashkharah. About 773 km or 8 hrs according to Google maps. Now you just need to build a shipping terminal (I'm assuming Al Ashkharah doesn't have the infrastructure in place) and enough trucks for 20% of daily global oil consumption. One ship holds about 2 million barrels, so that's just (on the basis of some googling) 7,246 standard truckloads per ship, times an average of 100 transits per day is 724,600 trucks. I'm sure they won't mind the extra traffic.
Might get a little hairy around the Al Salam Grand Resort, though.
Plus: that roadway is in range of shahed drones, and so shipment convoys could be easily attacked.
Just spread the trucks out from their current density of 1 per meter to uh, something else.
Since 6 axel semi trailer trucks are about 16 meters long, you can easily accommodate 1 per meter, by simply making this over 773 km long road a 16 lanes highway. Oh wait, the empty trucks have to drive back too. So 32 lanes in total. And add a few lanes for other traffic, because these trucks will have to drive bumper to bumper. If you want to spread them out against attacks, there's always space for more lanes in the desert.
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When the person trudging through the desert in front of you gets hit by a missile, you pick up their oil and keep moving
and like missiles can't just like, hit the ports
That's why the US has a robust air defense system in the region that—
*checks notes*
Oh. Hmm yeah I dunno
i didn't know anything about THAAD but it really seems like idk decades old equipment getting btfo'd by newer developments and huh looks like the first working one was in 2013
I don't understand the U.S. military planning beyond "it's all a grift and there's no real planning" because like, why not do all this mad dog bombing shit then, if at all, if this is the best missile defense they've got? or were Iranian ballistic missiles good enough even then for them to worry? if that's the case (actually, either way) why the fuck only have eight of them, worldwide? what? what is this? like sure they're a billion dollars but like. oh my god they shit that money for breakfast on their wunderwaffen toilets, just build more missile shit?
like I want america to lose (without me or my loved ones dying or going homeless would be great) but I can't help but just be critical of the seeming lack of forethought here. For the cost of the last 2 years of aid to israel you could have like 10-15 of these motherfuckers made just for the Gulf region instead of this scrambling "oh god we need to bring the one from Korea!" shit (which, at that, uhh if the first already got blown the fuck up what's the plan for the second, geniuses?)
like holy hell god damn
Traditional missile defense isn't really the problem. The main issue is that these were designed to take out more sophisticated missile attacks from peer adversaries over huge areas of defense.
The real problem is that drones have changed the game. Now your billion dollar platform is firing millions of dollars of ammunition to take out a bunch of drones that only cost thousands of dollars to make.
Now instead of just shooting off a bunch of missile attacks, militaries like Iran have learned to saturate the area with a bunch of drones as well . With the goal of either confusing the intercept capabilities, or just overwhelming them.
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The US military is made impotent by its tight coupling to the mil-ind complex. Equipping decisions are not made by the military but by the complex. The more parts that go into a weapon, the more jobs are created to build those parts, the more congresspeople vote to fund those weapons to secure those jobs in their districts to win elections. So you end up with infinite R&D money being thrown into a pit labelled "Wunderwaffen" with like 10% going into a district and 90% into the pockets of Raytheon shareholders, and those Wunderwaffen that get off the ground have supply chains that are far too long and have extra markup at every stage, because they're ultimately make-work programs.
Versus, say, Shahed drones, which you can crank off an assembly line and fly out the door.
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You cant make movies like that anymore coz of woke.
so Herzog hired Kinski, with whom he had previously clashed violently during production of Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), and Woyzeck (1979). Their fourth collaboration fared no better. When shooting was nearly complete, the chief of the Machiguenga tribe, whose members were used extensively as extras, asked Herzog if they should kill Kinski for him, though Herzog declined.
Herzog L.
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What eternal carbrain does to an MF
Can't even think of a train!
just fucking put a shipping label on a jerry can and mail that shit to the U.S. via Amazon
The emiratis did try to do this but with a pipeline instead but the Iranians just bombed the outer port lol
A pipeline is, if anything, MORE vulnerable than a strait. It's impossible to protect the whole thing.
Aside from so many reasons this wouldn't work, im pretty sure bombs destroy roads. They wouldnt wven have to aim at a ship to so any damage, just blow up the road
It's a desert, it's basically just flat, why do you need a road? 
you jest but we used to have this thing called land-trains and there's some precedent for off-road overland travel in fuckoff giant vehicles from the early 20th century.
Also landships. Big ass sleds with sails to traverse deserts and arctic areas. I don't think they were ever widespread, but they have been used. Really cool.
I have been owned. I must retire
Doing attrition warfare against Iran's Shahed program by deploying hundreds of thousands of trucks.
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Just build infrastructure where it didn't exist before. What a sensible plan.
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Not sure why no one else thought of this
Now I'm trying to think of a Mad Max joke about the Iran war, but none of them work. Something about Trump as Lord Humungus saying "just walk away," but it's pathetic and he has no leverage and he's not intimidating at all? Something about the Ayatollah of Rock N Rolla? Master Blaster saying "Who runs Barter Town?" but it's Larijani talking about the Straits of Hormuz?
ONCE AGAIN WE SEND OUT MY CARRIERSHIP TO BRING IRON FROM THE IRON DOME AND GUZZOLENE FROM GASTOWN. ONCE AGAIN I SALUTE MY IMPERATOR PETE HEGSETH, AND I SALUTE MY DIARRHEARIDDEN WARFIGHTERS WHO WILL RIDE WITH ME ETERNAL AND CHROME TO VALHALLA.
I Dunno. It's got potential.
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