The air strike to Iran by the US and Israel presents us an ethical issue in international politics if changing status quo by military force could be admitted or not. Is it allowed for a political leader would kill the other leader if he is a dictator? Could an airstrike be allowed to kill thousands of the civilians without any impending reason for "self defence"? I could hardly believe it would be only their domestic problem. It affects people world wide.
It causes not only a serious energy supply problem world wide but also a devastating issue in aluminum and fertilizer supply. Oil and gas deficits might be tolerated with their storage but the following issues could become reality in a month or two. The secondary aggravated inflation also would be a vital issue in the world as well.
Though the aluminum production in the Persian Gulf area is only 8% of the whole in the world, including its alloys, it is the main source to the western world. Hormuz Strait, the check point to the western world, would have a vital importance to the industries in the western world.
Another crisis brought by Hormuz Strait closure is fertilizer deficit which results in food security crisis. The gulf area is one of the places where nitrogen derived fertilizer and its source are produced and exported to the other parts of the world. Even if any country manufactures fertilizer by themselves, it will undergo the more expensive products. There could be world wide food deficiency.
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