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A cargo ship is on fire in the Strait of Hormuz — pay attention

published · May 11, 2:36 PM · $3.10 total · published 48d ago
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A South Korean cargo ship — HMM Namu — just got hit by drones in the Strait of Hormuz. Two strikes, engine room on fire, towed to Dubai. Twenty-four crew members on board. Mike's angle: this is what energy dependence looks like in real time. You want to know why your heating bill went up, why diesel is through the roof, why everything costs more to ship? It's because the people who told you we didn't need to be energy independent were wrong, and the ships are on fire. Trump is trying to fix it. Button: this is what it costs when you let the other guys run things for thirty years.

Video format, america_first_economics pillar. Talking-head delivery works perfectly for this — Mike's angry, concrete, connecting a specific event to a larger point. News-grounded with named ship and specific damage. Fresh lane from recent tariff/trade content.

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South Korean cargo ship. HMM Namu. Strait of Hormuz. Two drone strikes, one minute apart. Engine room on fire. Towed to Dubai. Twenty-four crew on board. You want to know why your heating bill is brutal? Why diesel costs what it does? Why everything shipped costs more? This is why. The Strait of Hormuz is not abstract foreign policy. It's the chokepoint for a massive share of the world's oil. And somebody just lit a cargo ship on fire going through it. Trump said Iran took the shots. Iran denied it. South Korea summoned Iran's ambassador. The ship has a hull breach five metres wide. [sighs] For years they told you we didn't need energy independence. Told you domestic production was the problem. Pipelines were dangerous. Now the ships are on fire. That's what thirty years of the other guys running things costs. Common sense wasn't wrong.

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HMM Namu hit by drones in the Strait of Hormuz. Engine room on fire. 24 crew. This is what energy dependence looks like. #energy #america #shipping #hormuz

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