Aunque el petróleo venezolano pasaba por Malaca, China lo necesitaba. EEUU acaba de demostrar: controlo las rutas Y los recursos. Doctrina Monroe: sigue vigente. Fin del hilo actualizado 🧵⚓ #Geopolítica #ChokePoints #Venezuela #Taiwan #Panamá #Groenlandia #DoctrinaMonroe​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“The renminbi has a long way to go until it can match the dollar in terms of the depth and liquidity of U.S. capital markets and the ease of moving across borders. But its biggest impediment may be the character of the Chinese state: increasingly authoritarian and unconstrained by the rule of law. ”
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#usdollar #chokepoints #edwardfishman #china

these are the #chokepoints platform chokes consumer hooked on platform feeds business needs platform feeds shareholder grows platform numbs consumer … This is the algorithm it sucks me try … I‘m addicted to screens! #PainMagazine Wow. #music #industrial #birdsinrow #techno #ebm #punk #hardcore

Unos pocos kilómetros de agua controlan billones en comercio. Los #chokepoints son donde se juega el poder global. Entenderlos es entender la #geopolítica del futuro.

#España es líder en #serviciosmarítimos y #logísticos. Nuestra presencia en el #Indo-Pacífico no es solo militar: es económica, diplomática y estratégica. Porque entender los choke points es entender dónde se juega nuestro futuro comercial.📌 CODA FINAL: POR QUÉ LA UE SÍ HACE BIEN
La UE invierte billones en paneles solares, molinos

Debate sobre “autonomía estratégica” lleva décadas sin resolverse. Resultado: máxima exposición al riesgo de cierre de #chokepoints sin capacidad de respuesta.
❄️ EL FUTURO: ÁRTICO
El #deshielopolar abre nuevas rutas. El Paso del Noroeste reduce 40% la distancia Europa-Asia vs. Panamá. Pero: solo navegable 2-3 meses/año, falta infraestructura, costes de seguro altísimos. No será alternativa real hasta 2030-2040
🎯 CONCLUSIÓN
La #geografía sigue siendo importante en el siglo XXI. #geopolitica

Uso dual comercial-militar. En conflicto se activarían RESPUESTA ESTADOUNIDENSE
¿Por qué EEUU habla de “recuperar” Panamá y comprar Groenlandia? Simple: control de #chokepoints.
→ Panamá: 6% del comercio global, ruta crítica Asia-costa este USA. China controla puertos en ambos extremos (Hutchison Ports)
→#Groenlandia: acceso al Paso del Noroeste (ruta ártica emergente q reduce 40% distancia Europa-Asia). Quien controle Groenlandia controlará el choke point del futuro.

→ Djibouti: primera base militar china en el extranjero (2017), capacidad para 10,000 tropas, controla Bab el-Mandeb
→ #Myanmar: oleoductos desde costa hasta Yunnan, puerto de Kyaukpyu, permite importar #energía sin pasar por Malaca. India lo ve como un cerco
💭 EL GRAN DEBATE
China dice “Son proyectos comerciales legítimos bajo la Iniciativa de la Fruta y Ruta"
EEUU/India responden: “Es militarización encubierta para controlar #chokepoints”
Realidad: probablemente ambas.

We need to remind ourselves--Trump has never had a mandate:

“On November 8, 2016, just 77,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin delivered the presidency to Trump. The Obama team was in shock. One of the main reasons they had held back on punishing Putin for his interference in the election was their belief that Clinton would win. ”

Excerpt From
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman

#chokepoints #edwardfishman #books #russia #trump #clinton #Russianinterference #bookstodon

“It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire,” wrote Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Polish-born former U.S. national security advisor, in 1994. An Oxbridge don put it in less delicate terms: “With the Ukraine, Russia is a USA; without, she is a Canada—mostly snow.”

Excerpt From
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman

#chokepoints #edwardFishman #ukraine #russia

Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/

Pluralistic: It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment) (22 Sep 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/one-throat-to-choke/

Yes, sure, #oil. But also control of #shipping #chokepoints are the strategic assets being contested.

#StraitOfHormuz
#SuezCanal
#PanamaCanal
#StraitOfGibraltar
#StraitofMalacca
#BabEelMandeb
#CapeOfGoodHope
#BeringStrait

@TheConversationUS on the #US going #Hungary - maybe:

»Authoritarian populists tilt the democratic playing field to favor themselves and their personal and political interests. Subverting #democracy from the inside without violent repression allows leaders like #Orbán and #Trump to pretend they are democratic. This authoritarianism from within creates #chokepoints where the #opposition isn’t crushed, but it has a hard time breathing.«

https://theconversation.com/i-watched-hungarys-democracy-dissolve-into-authoritarianism-as-a-member-of-parliament-and-i-see-troubling-parallels-in-trumpism-and-its-appeal-to-workers-224930

“The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet”

#SeaCables / #telecommunications / #internet / #wired / #ChokePoints #MattBuurgess <https://wired.com/story/submarine-internet-cables-egypt/>

> It’s the key to the control of almost all shipping between the #IndianOcean and the #MediterraneanSea via the #SuezCanal. Recent drone attacks on commercial shipping in the Bab el Mandeb by Yemen-based Houthi forces have prompted a coalition led by the United States to launch military strikes against targets controlled by the militants.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bab-al-mandan-red-sea-suez-shipping-crisis-houthis-gaza

#BabElMandeb #StraitOfBabElMandeb #ChokePoints #MaritimePower

I'm trying to learn Geography based on comments by Amitav Ghosh interview about his _Nutmeg's Curse_ on DemocracyNow!. Trying to relate Ghosh's mention of the Strait of Hormuz to recent shipping disruptions (and price increases?) from Yemen's Houthi area turned up this info-graphic. Looks like the #BabAlMandabStrait is another chokepoint. These straits must not be as shallow as the Malacca Strait...?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/yemens-war-explained-in-maps-and-charts-interactive
#ChokePoints #StraitChokePoints

> The draught of some of the world's largest ships (mostly oil tankers) exceeds the Strait's minimum depth of 25 metres (82 feet). This shallow point occurs in the Singapore Strait. The maximum size of a vessel that can pass through the Strait is referred to as the Malaccamax..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Malacca

#StraitOfMalacca #MalaccaMax #ChokePoints #DesignConstraints

The labor movement needs the solidarity and organization of tech workers acting in solidarity with warehouse or production workers dependent on their algorithms! What an awesome transformative power!

`https://stansburyforum.com/2024/01/25/tech-workers-deserve-a-union

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2024/01/book-review-power-tech-workers

Labor Power and Strategy by John Womack, Jr. for more discussion of #chokepoints and #poweranalysis
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1298

#techworkers #union #labornotes

Global Shipping's Chokepoints
https://www.statista.com/chart/31489/shippings-chokepoints/

#osint
#Shipping
#Chokepoints

Just noticed the book depository is closing. It was better for books than amazon, even after amazon bought them. Now amazon is removing yet another option from the web in their endless march to domination.

#bookdepository #chokepoints #amazon