The US Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry ⁠for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Lol. Putin, Israel, and Trumps entire nazi party are intentionally trying to destabilize the globe, deplete our energy and weapons reserves, and plunge us all into economic depression... and every "Liberal" political class is too criminally corrupt — too captured and beholden to their oligarch financiers — to give a shit about what is happening.

We ALL live in what are functionally equivalent to capitalist dictatorships, ruled by oligarchs so mentally ill and detached from reality they're no different to the "let them eat cake" Aristocracy of old. This will only get worse as long as psychopaths and megalomaniacs control our economies.