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Amid petrochemical products shortage due to blockage of Straight of Hormuz, Paint thinner sold on a Japanese second hand market for as high as 271,000 JPY for 16 Liter, equivalent to 402.62 USD per gallon or 106.36 USD per liter.
There are also reports that asphalt materials, PVC ducts, resin adhesive and synthetic rubber supply are also in critical stituation.

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Japan is a stagnating 20th century oil dependent state. It will find survival increasingly difficult in the age of scarcity and climate change.
 

pmc

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UAE is on Israel, India, and the US side. That's the simplest way for you to understand this.
Saudis are far more on US side than Israel/UAE/India ever be. Saudi prefer permanent solution and US election cycle is short term. I am sure there are people in US that agree with Saudi vision which is in US interest but US has to use hard Power to quickly solve the problem.
UAE may feel betrayed considering what they did for Iran. All those trading ideas originated from UAE (DP World) even Shipping canal through Iran would have benefited UAE and no need for desalination plant.
Saudi not particular care about strait of Hormuz quick opening. these tweets are coming from UAE.
this latest map ignore Iran and India. they are there but not on map and this reflect Saudi approach of not giving them importance. There is alot of stuff in RT Arabic. it is like giving Iran long term incentive to work productively with Royal Kingdoms. Only Russia can do it as there muslims has that limitless patient and high regard for Royals and is these Royals whose investment in Europe and Africa protecting these two continents from wrath of Russia hard power.

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manqiangrexue

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Probably better here than the Ukraine thread:
Using that logic,Iran is defeated on the long term then and the US is victorious on the long term. lol
Ahhhhhh touche, except that you forget the big picture. This isn't about Iran; in a world of just USA and Iran, Iran can only fold (although in such a world, the US is unlikely to be interested in fighting Iran since its dominance would be unchallenged). But China is a bigger player waiting to eat America's lunch. Therefore, there is no long term for the US and to win, Iran only needs to drain American resources until China can finish the job. After China surpasses the US, it's going to be drowning in China's wake, no longer bullying other countries. America doesn't have the stamina for this fight; it needed Iran to fold and offer terms quickly without draining American resources and it sure as hell did not get that.
Anyway , I don’t think it’s always the case , but yeah I agree with your point actually
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I’m not talking about being useless for other powers. In fat the biggest winners of this war are those powers who are not involved per se. Like India, China, and even US to some extent . The losers (and the reason I call it useless from their perspective) is the two main parties involved I.e Russia and Ukraine . The loses on both sides are massive in all aspects one can think of , in fact in manpower alone Ukraine is trying to draft any available citizen they can find, Russia has drawn from much of their army to the point they have been releasing prisoners and pushing them on the front line for death and they have even called on help from North Korean troops and they are clandestinely /illegally fooling poor African countries to send their people to Russia where many are unaware it’s to join the war (traffickers lie to them that it’s for a job . lol) it has gotten so bad that some African countries are taking the unprecedented step of calling out Russo on this publicly (something that was unthinkable years ago). In fact all this itself is a humiliation itself for Russia to be honest. It shows they are far less capable than many imagined . If you had told me or anybody just 5 years ago that Russia will struggle to defeat Ukraine in a conventional war , I’m sure nobody will have believed . Don’t forget that even many reputed western military organizations constantly put Russia as the world second most capable/powerful military (ahead of even China ) after the US. lol
First of all, you have the order of things confused. Russia first sends its prisoners, and foreign mercenaries before using its core power. Those are expendable. You mean to tell me that if you were in charge, you'd let your main army get decimated before sending cannon fodder??

Secondly, I was not talking about being useless of other powers. The fact that it's very useful for China means that it's very useful for Russia. Russia is going to have a shit time in a world that is USA/EU centric. It is going to have a much better time in a Sino-centric world. China will never harm Russia unless attacked first but all day all night, NATO thinks about how to harm Russia. So, in pulling the EU down from the fight and forcing the US to face China alone, Russia is helping its own future.
Anyway , I think both sides should sit down and make a deal. Neither side can achieve a decisive victory.
Nah, drag it out. When the EU is exhausted and the US has piped down knowing that it is outmatched by China, Russia can unleash what it held in reserve for NATO unto Ukraine and win. If not, I think China can lend a hand since Russia has lent us plenty. They need outside perspective; Ukraine needs to be hit hard by a country that does not consider it a brother.
 
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