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Hmmm... I concede all of your points, while noting that Panama is also mountainous (and digging a canal there was a monumental undertaking, which, being much more useful, was undertaken anyway.) The utility being limited, the effort is not worth...

This might be the first time in history that starting a war & conquering a country didn't turn out to be as quick & easy as a politician said it would be.

This may be an important factor for not vetoing the resolution: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/13/energy/us-russia-sanctions-relief-oil-hnk-intl?Date=20260313&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1773379672&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky US...

Speaking of China ... Ships identify themselves as Chinese around Strait of Hormuz during Iran war to avoid attacks HONG KONG (AP) — Some commercial ships near or in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf have declared themselves as...

It might be significant (particularly re. Russia) because allowing the resolution to go through shows the governments of Russia, China feel it is more important not to antagonise the nations Iran is targeting than it is to show support for Iran...

Once Iran escalated to blocking Hormuz they started stepping on a lot more toes. As for the abstain rather than voting either way, my guess is the wording of the resolution goes too far but a veto supports something they won't support. Neither...

not sure how much it matters, but is it interesting that Russia and China abstained? <i dont follow UN stuff much, so that is an actual question. The United Nations Security Council adopted a draft resolution condemning Iran's attacks on Gulf...

Iran (like Russia) isn't really dependent on top shelf advanced weapons. Shahed drones are cheap, they're produced domestically, produced in Russia, claimed (but not last I knew proven) to be produced in North Korea and at offshore Russian...

I've seen several commentators state that the war will be short because one or more of the players will run out of advanced weapons. Unfortunately that was also used by many of the same talking heads to predict an end to the Ukraine war which (so...

Yeah, some drone pilots were caught flying a drone illegally during the daytime, in the past few weeks. This happened near Volkel, Eindhoven, and Gilze-Rijen. In the case of Volkel, it seems that the drone pilot was just making some video footage...

Source: https://www.iea.org/about/oil-security-and-emergency-response/strait-of-hormuz 20 mb/d, around 25% world seaborne oil trade, transits the Strait – 80% destined for Asia. 3.5 to 5.5 mb/d of pipeline capacity with the potential to...

The thing about pipelines is like Internet vs. sneakernet. The Internet feels really fast and direct and it definitely has advantages of flexibility and response time, but a box of hard drives is still vastly faster at moving a lot of data. The...

Much of that video is obviously AI generated, like the one with the two story tall firefighters with a yellow hose that loops back on itself or anything with moving cars (scale is all over the place even in single shots and at one point a large...

A more reasonable soluction would be multiple pipelines from The Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, entirely within Saudi Arabia. Being a fixed structure it would be vulnerable to attack, but being entirely on Saudi territory it would be much easier to...

I'm going to assume that's sarcasm...