Global Shipping Comes Under Attack || Aug 28, 2026
While oil is still moving through the Strait of Hormuz, flows remain a fraction of pre-war levels.
Some tankers have made it through by using tactics similar to the shadow fleet, obscuring their movements to avoid detection. Once the tankers clear the Strait, they conduct sea-to-sea transfers under American protection. But this strategy is extremely expensive, and the U.S. cannot sustain it indefinitely.
More importantly, it demonstrates how difficult it is for even the world’s most powerful navy to protect critical maritime chokepoints from relatively small-scale disruptions.
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Comments (35)
WSJ is reporting a large amount of oil is getting out and that the US blockade is working. Looks like the administrations numbers are closer than what has been assumed
The only way to resolve this is full scale invasion of offending countries. And since that is not going to happen. The only real choice is either pay for transit or just leave them to their own demise.
Peter please revisit the Venezuelan oil Trump says will be the answer to gas prices.
Putting oil to the side a little. Can the 100k plus companies within AI supply chain survive via plane transport or does it 100% need to be global shipping?
Whatever. I canceled my subscription before it renews automatically in October. Until then, I'll continue getting these videos.
Canada to rename Lake Erie to "Lake Epstein"
How about Canada renaming Lake Superior---- Lake Obama. Watch Trump lose his mind. Oh , wait. He already did that.
I was in San Diego a few weeks back and noticed that CV-70 and CV-71 (Nimitz class carriers) are in port just hanging about. Maybe Hegseth could load them full of testosterone filled folks and send them on over to Hormuz. (Though I think both those carriers are normally utilized for Pacific fleet work).
If only the incompetent fools in the White House would have took notes and listened to Peter’s analysis video back in June 19, 2025, we wouldn’t be in this mess now. I can’t believe the level of stupidity and arrogance in this administration!
Zeihan 2028 please.
I can just hear the conversation in the oval office. Let's tie up those military assets to keep oil prices as low as possible until the mid-term elections. We'll just pile the cost onto the deficit. Tell the Americans that we've won and that the lack of an oil price spike validates it. Besides, Americans are such fools that we can tell them anything and they'll fall for it, hook, line and sinker.
“Debearded Peter isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.”
Debearded Peter: “your world is ending and everything you know and love will die.”
So... invest in the US, Permian Basin oil and gas development. Thank you.
Who tf is this guy?
Looks like Peter lost a bet again...
Just think what the real cost of that crude when you take into consideration the cost of having the military escort these ships. and the US taxpayer is get the short end of the stick. Add that military cost the the numbers I'm hearing is around $140/barrel.
Korea and Japan should develop auto drone ship protection Costs should be minimal, profits great.
The choke point vulnerabilities Peter is referring to have always been there. Take a page out of history with the Bribery Pirates, destroy their bases of operations making it more painful to be pirates than it's worth. Something we could have done to the Somali pirates in 2010 but Hilary Clinton nixed the plan. We are referring to a places on earth where the government institutions are weak, corrupt, or non existent and the rule of law as we understand it does not exist. Where strength and violence are respected and diplomacy is considered begging. Americans who have never been there and have lived in a peaceful society all their lives do not understand this.
So...YOU would have advocated invading Somalia to get rid of some freelance pirates, huh???
So, why isn't the price of oil MUCH higher?
Maybe a panicked, reckless release of strategic reserves around the world? It won’t last is my guess. I have a buddy who’s high up in an Alberta oil company and they are making mucho sweet moola right now….
Easy, we just strategically rename each of the choke points to American whatever. Problem solved!
The "Bab-al Ameridab". Has a nice ring to it. That should scare off the pirates.
Sounds like investing in maritime insurance carriers. Their rates will skyrocket
Peter, wouldn't the costs of maintaining military resources at the Strait of Hormuz be mostly a matter of moving them around on a spreadsheet? They still would be patrolling and training anyway. The cost would come from continually lobbing ordnance at the Iranians. Which we have been. Perhaps if the Brits had maintained their seafaring traditions and kept up their fleet, the Bab al-Mandab Strait wouldn't be such a problem. Maybe the French can take on that job, but would anyone want to? Our dear leader burnt those bridges. Oh, yeah, you scared the bejesus out of me at the beginning of the video.
French wouldn't want to because they can sit behind the USA and get it for free. Until they can't....
If anything is "incredibly stupid" to do, Trump will do it.
“I see that strategically as incredibly stupid, so wouldn’t count on that happening ..” - ha ha haha. HA HA HAA HA.
What a strategic blunder, who couldn’t see this coming when there are no adults in the room.
Are you talking about Peter's beard!
If the the new normal is constrained by the US Fleet,to protect 2 vital ways, certainly that is reason to ask allies to deploy a few destroyers in a coalition?
So the "America First" president is tying up finite military assets and spending our tax dollars on protecting illicit oil shipments to foreign countries, some of which are adversarial to the US. Yeah, that's about par for the course for this administration.
Have a safe✈️ Peter ... 👍 ... 👉
NOT THE BEARD!!!