Strait of Hormuz

[angrychair]

I don't think we have an appreciation of what no traffic through the Strait of Hormuz means for the world.

Taiwan gets the majority of its LNG through there and that's what powers the country and powers all those semiconductor plants that build the electronic components we all depend on.

Fertilizer that helps feed the world comes through there.

Oil comes through there.

Places like China needs to get oil through there. They will run out of oil in a couple months (there isn't enough oil from Russia or the US or Canada or Mexico to kept them supplied) and I strongly suspect they will get very grumpy, very quickly and won't be happy with us.

A byproduct of oil processing is sulfur, which is used to make sulphuric acid, which in turn is used to make all kinds of stuff, especially electronic components.

I'm not saying that the Iran government were good people but this was NOT the way.
Especially with Israel destroying those storage facilities.
Especially with them killing the new leader of Iran's entire family, father, wife, children, all dead because of us.

If we were supposed to be "liberating the Iranian people" we sure went about it a crazy way. I don't think killing 200 children and blackening their skies and raining down acid on them is how you endear people to your cause.

[luv2fly]

1. I'm (still) sick of Israel

... and the US these days too.

But deep down inside of me, despite the doomsday folks declaring democracy in the US kaput for eternity, I hold out hope things will eventually turn around.

[Tribetime]

4. Yes, I never understood why we support Israel.No matter what

It makes me sick

[Lovie777]

2. There was no plan....

I guess these incompetent assholes from the US government including the higher ups pentagon officials didn’t take the Strait of Hormuz seriously and assumed killing the head people controlling Iran that the Iranian military would immediately bow down to the great shithole at least in a day or two.

[Dan]

3. Well, remember this administration

Removed a lot of the senior competent military leadership for being Woke. Female or DEI and replaced them with Trump loyalist. Unfortunately ass kissing never won a war.

[2naSalit]

7. Oh, there was a plan...

To let bibi do whatever he wants because he also has a full set of unredacted epstein files.

[malaise]

5. Lawrence nailed it

[617Blue]

6. Is it still shut down? I though traffic was getting thru?

[Melon]

8. It's not shut down. Traffic is moving through.

[617Blue]

9. I know you're MAGA bro.

I've read your thinly disguised posts.

[Melon]

11. 😐. Live screen is below. .

Here you go…

https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/HORMUZ-STRAIT/ship-traffic-tracker#google_vignette

[Red Mountain]

13. That doesn't show much moving traffic

in what should be a very busy waterway.

I don't know how long they can keep it up but it certainly looks like the Iranians are currently impeding traffic.

[Melon]

14. It's not business as usual by any means.

But vessels are moving through.
Oil down 7% today to Brent $91.55. Peaked around $118 on Sunday.

[617Blue]

10. Trump's 'free flow of energy' vow fails to restart shipping in strait of Hormuz

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/trump-free-flow-energy-fails-restart-shipping-strait-hormuz

[Red Mountain]

12. See for yourself

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.2/centery:26.3/zoom

You can click on the symbols to see what ship info is available. 'Draught' is a pretty good indicator of whether or not a ship is empty or full.

There has been some talk of ships turning off their transponders and running the narrow part of the strait but it doesn't look like a common tactic given the number of ships sitting and waiting in the area.