In thousands of years of preserved writing 99% of which was written by men for men, you're telling me boys can't find anything to read?
I'm glancing at my fiction bookshelf collected over the past two decades and seeing about 60/40 male to female protagonists. (To be fair there are a few where there are dual protagonists and only the primarily is male. Also one series where the secondary protagonist is not only female but also a cat so that must be hard for frail modern masculinity to get into)
The guy who has hoarded the most wealth on the planet says
"trust me I'll share later".
Would you trust him?
<no>
REALLY?
Or try another way. When everyone loses their jobs to AI and can't pay taxes will the billion and trillilnares who are still rich volunteer to fund UHI? (How did the California billionaire tax to fund healthcare go?)
There's control and there's enough control so not a single missile can hit a cargo ship in the strait.
Maritime insurers are understandably conservative. If the ship stays trapped it continues to pay premiums (insurance company wins). If it risks passage it risks a $10M payout (insurance company loses). If there's risk of a single missile the insurers won't allow the ships through. How can an insurance company thousands of miles away stop a ship? "If you risk the passage you're not covered by insurance"
Pretty sure Iran has spent the last 30 years ensuring that they can mount gorilla attacks indefinitely in the face of overwhelming invasion.
That has been their deterrent strategy for decades. Intelligence analysts out front should have told ya.
(A massive invasion would also not open the strait.)
I'm glancing at my fiction bookshelf collected over the past two decades and seeing about 60/40 male to female protagonists. (To be fair there are a few where there are dual protagonists and only the primarily is male. Also one series where the secondary protagonist is not only female but also a cat so that must be hard for frail modern masculinity to get into)
Imma call bullshit on this.
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