Historically speaking, what is the most important strait?
Historically speaking, what is the most important strait?
Luis Hill
Isaac Taylor
Still source of massive butthurt to this day
Brayden Gray
Malacca?
Elijah King
Not really, except for the whole "no aircraft carriers allowed" thing which Russia just solves by building its "aircraft cruisers"
Nathaniel Garcia
Gibraltar, Bosphorus, Dover, Malacca (not counting canals)
Honorable mention (in order of importance) goes to Bab el Mandeb, Hormuz, Messina, and *maybe* Zanzibar.
Camden Thompson
Hormuz by far
Grayson Ortiz
Are you serious? You think that is important?
Angel Mitchell
It's where most of the world's oil supply goes through.
Carson Davis
What other strait does it compete with for that title? Literally none. Pipelines in the Levant and oil in Saudi Arabia have nothing to do with that damn strait.
David Richardson
Oil didn't become important until the 20th century. For most of history, petroleum was a completely worthless substance.
Henry Phillips
Oil isn't important?
Oliver Williams
Magellan Strait was important but no nation controlled it until the late 19th century
Jeremiah Brooks
for countries like Japan it´s absolutely vital
Cameron Rodriguez
Benjamin Torres
This one actually comes quite close.
Robert Stewart
>non-Greeks larping as Greeks fighting against Greeks larping as non-Greeks
Gabriel Barnes
If WWIII ever kicks off it'll be because of some bullshit around the Strait of Malacca
Chase Bell
What do you reckon? Only problem down here is just Indonesian pirates and fishermen stealing our fish
Brayden Gutierrez
I can definitely see China and Japan having a war over who controls the strait of Malacca.
Zachary James
All but three of these are three of these are controlled by Muslim countries.
Kevin Allen
Umm... but why?
Samuel Nelson
Because he's 19 years old and doesn't understand world politics.
>cuz ninjas fight samurai Duh
Nicholas Perez
t.ROACH
Jordan Stewart
>pointing out facts makes you a roach
Jaxon Wright
>Hot spot for trade with India since Sumeria
>One of the most oil-rich region in the world
>not important
Joseph Taylor
fpbp
Elijah Wright
That's why the West lagged behind the Islamic World before Europeans developed the techonolgy that let them circumvent the established (primarily Islamic) trade networks and build their own.
Jaxson Lee
OBJECTION! Asked and answered.
Ayden Williams
It's unimportant as a strait
The relevance of this region is the connection of the near east with europe
Thomas Young
Being turkish makes you a roaxh
Ethan Nelson
the dire straits
John Evans
The strait of Malacca, the target of many western colonizers
>A very strategic location for trade
>Also good for spice trade
>The main route for trade that can take you from India to China
>They were first controlled by the portugese, then the Dutch, and finally was handed over to the bongs
That's all I know. Can any of you guys elaborate / further my point?