You titled this story, "Friends in Crisis: What Trade Tells Us About Iran and Israel" but you didn't talk much of anything about Israeli trade. Maybe that's because they. like the nation they control (America), want nothing more than to bully and bomb to get what they want, knowing full well all their puppets around the world will clap and cheer. Bullies eventually run into a bigger bully and get themselves thoroughly thrashed. For America, this will likely be China. Israel will not learn until someone sneaks a dirty bomb inside one of their cities and sets it off. Neither country will learn until it is too late.
To think America, which was founded on the idea with trading with as many countries as it may be possible and to avoid entangling alliances has endorsed quite the opposite path.
As a final aside, Russia must be wondering how their invasion to keep their next door neighbor, Ukraine, out of NATO and protecting Russian-speaking Ukrainians is bad but Israel bombing Iran is wonderful and great. The hypocrisy of the West/US is on full display.
Why think Iran can shut down Persian Gulf? Has neither airdefence, air force, navy, nor functioning counterintelligence nor any serious committed allies. Just a rapidly shrinking supply of missiles and some overseas sleeper cells which may or may not still be willing to risk their lives in an already lost war. Whatever remaining assets they have are exposed to Israeli & US air strikes and the newly arrived US Navy, all freed from constraints now that it's open war. Expect similar 'success' from Iran, ie humiliating failure.
31 km at its narrowest point.
You titled this story, "Friends in Crisis: What Trade Tells Us About Iran and Israel" but you didn't talk much of anything about Israeli trade. Maybe that's because they. like the nation they control (America), want nothing more than to bully and bomb to get what they want, knowing full well all their puppets around the world will clap and cheer. Bullies eventually run into a bigger bully and get themselves thoroughly thrashed. For America, this will likely be China. Israel will not learn until someone sneaks a dirty bomb inside one of their cities and sets it off. Neither country will learn until it is too late.
To think America, which was founded on the idea with trading with as many countries as it may be possible and to avoid entangling alliances has endorsed quite the opposite path.
As a final aside, Russia must be wondering how their invasion to keep their next door neighbor, Ukraine, out of NATO and protecting Russian-speaking Ukrainians is bad but Israel bombing Iran is wonderful and great. The hypocrisy of the West/US is on full display.
Why think Iran can shut down Persian Gulf? Has neither airdefence, air force, navy, nor functioning counterintelligence nor any serious committed allies. Just a rapidly shrinking supply of missiles and some overseas sleeper cells which may or may not still be willing to risk their lives in an already lost war. Whatever remaining assets they have are exposed to Israeli & US air strikes and the newly arrived US Navy, all freed from constraints now that it's open war. Expect similar 'success' from Iran, ie humiliating failure.