I don’t think there’s a huge amount of fertilizer going through the strait, saudia arabia is the only producer that would need to do that, and while they’re in the top 5 fertilizer producers, they are #5 by a fair amount.
You had separated the two in your argument, so I focused on the fertilizer aspect which you had indicated as the most impactful. Regarding LNG, all of the countries combined that could be impacted by the strait’s closure would only just pass Iran itself to hit the #3 spot, and that’s mostly from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
All of them combined, including Iran, produce less than Russia alone, and nowhere close to the US. It’s not so much that there will be shortages due to lack of supply, there will be shortages because it will get so expensive that poorer countries won’t be able to afford it.
Or they start trading with Russia, giving them more funds for their invasion of Ukraine.
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I don’t think there’s a huge amount of fertilizer going through the strait, saudia arabia is the only producer that would need to do that, and while they’re in the top 5 fertilizer producers, they are #5 by a fair amount.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/fertilizer-production-by-country
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You had separated the two in your argument, so I focused on the fertilizer aspect which you had indicated as the most impactful. Regarding LNG, all of the countries combined that could be impacted by the strait’s closure would only just pass Iran itself to hit the #3 spot, and that’s mostly from Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
All of them combined, including Iran, produce less than Russia alone, and nowhere close to the US. It’s not so much that there will be shortages due to lack of supply, there will be shortages because it will get so expensive that poorer countries won’t be able to afford it.
Or they start trading with Russia, giving them more funds for their invasion of Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_production
Could it be an emergency that is very long?