X @Nick Szabo

It isn't going to change until the war is over. With 21st century weaponry, especially cheap but precisely aimed missiles and drones, it is very easy for land powers to block nearby strategic straits. Navies can do little about it.Iran has effectively slowed traffic in and out of the Persian Gulf to a trickle. Zionists have done similar with Iranian ships. The equilibrium is stalemate where ships don't move until there is peace.Janis Kluge (@jakluge):If this doesn't change very soon, there will be a global ...