@Aviation_Intel The longer the strait or straits remain closed the more irrelevant they will become. The world is awash in oil and arbitrage will eventually solve supply problems. The truth lies in the price of oil.
I don’t think there’s a large chance of a Democratic comeback in the next two decades. If the recent police raids on John Bolton’s home and office are bellwethers, the Trump administration is gearing up to use the same tactics against the Democrats that they tried to use against him, with the main difference being that the Dems are a much more target-rich environment.
My guess is that the trials and attendant publicity are being timed to affect the midterms, and that a very large share of the Democratic leadership is going to end up doing hard time on conspiracy, racketeering, and corruption charges — in which case it’s going to take a generation or two for the party to recover. But we’ll see.