There's an old door no one can open when it rains,
Cause the wood expands and hugs the door-frame.
As a house-man, I am useful for jars and ajars,
And I can kick the door open. But what if I'm far?

What is a door that doesn't open?
What is a strait that isn't straight?
A door that doesn't open is a bad wall,
And a strait that isn't straight is gay.

If it takes the full force of your Navy to open a strait, it's not open. And if your Navy is dying of diarrhea, laundry, and carrier suicide along the way, is it even a Navy? More like Pirates of the Has-Beens.

And let's be honest here, they're lying. They're not trying to open the strait, they're precisely the ones closing it. The strait was open before the US Navy showed up, and it'll be open again once they leave. What they call the solution is the problem.

The $1 they save you vassals on tolls is lost to $100 in protection money to their cronies. As ze Americans say, it's all phoney baloney. There's no high diplomatic solution here, just petty piracy. And a bunch of pathetic proxies realizing they weren't paying for protection, but for a protection racket.

It's like Vishwa Mitra sending the king to heaven,
And Indra flinging him back to earth upside down,
But the sage Vishwa was more ragey back then,
And kept flinging the poor king up and down.

That's like America sending ships through the strait,
And Iran sending them back to sender, upside down.
And Yemen is even more righteously ragey.
They're just flinging the US Navy around.

The Whiteys are not saving the oil market with all the killing. When have they ever saved anything? They're doing what Whitey do. They're simply making a killing. War is a racket, as some Snerdly said, and the White Mafia are masters of racketeering.

What I'm trying to say (in a roundabout way) is that you can force things open—where there's a will, there's a way—but how do you keep them that way? Ay, there's the rub, as bitter princes say. Because by using force you actually lose power. Power is the cake and force is eating it. You can't have your strait and attack Iran too, but this is precisely what Empire has tried to do by force. But using force is really the loss of power. Using force disappates power, ie makes disappear. You have to replenish that power from somewhere, but where? All your base belong to us, and that shale crack pipe only hits for another few years.

The question you have to ask yourself is the question I ask myself when the door sticks. Does it require a constant fist, or a fleet in this case, to just do normal shit? How long can things go on like this? OK, OK, I'll get the door fixed.