It is very simple. The USA can't, same as everybody else can't On 1350nm shoreline any drone, 155mm tube, mine, naval drone, rocket, you name it, can sink a tanker or any other ship on short notice. It is military impossible to protect shipping with a decent reliability. If you hit 1 out of 10 tankers, nobody will set sail, nor insure those vessels. Absent from the ecological nightmare. LNG tankers add huge fireworks. Anyone with a shoreline there can deny the use of the SoH. 20% of the worldwide energy market and all GCC biz is at a standstill.