David August ❌👑6d ago

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, due to potus’ war of choice, cuts off sulfur shipments, and so endangers *checks notes* the United States’ ability to wage war. Behold: the self defeating military!

“Chemicals like sulfuric acid…can determine whether the US military can maintain industrial base production of electrical and digital systems needed to sustain the fight as munitions are expended and combat losses mount.”

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-chokepoint-we-missed-sulfur-hormuz-and-the-threats-to-military-readiness/

#USpol #Hormuz

The Chokepoint We Missed: Sulfur, Hormuz, and the Threats to Military Readiness

The cascading effects of disrupted maritime chokepoints are no longer the subject of simulations; they are an active crisis. As the US-Israeli military operation against Iran and Tehran’s regional military response continue, missile attacks, drone swarms, airstrikes, and maritime threats complicate commercial shipping across the region. The ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz affects

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Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell6d ago

@davidaugust

It’s so stupid, because the entire military supply chain is also strapped to China’s mineral refining and purification. They know what’s happening in the US economy and even what’s happening in military production based on purchases.

Everything necessary to have them in industrial base such as it exists in the United States is dependent on China and Asia, or resources sprinkled over all over the world

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell

@davidaugust

In one real sense, annexing Greenland or Canada is about the resources to build a military, and whatever is left over goes into the economy.

That’s the problem created by this war as well. Who ends up buying all those metals and other feed stock materials?

The military industrial complex or the rest of the economy

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