This feels like a MIC protectionist push for mining more than anything. With the massive navy claiming world wide shipping as the defacto world reserve currency

This feels like a MIC protectionist push for mining more than anything. With the massive navy claiming world wide shipping as the defacto world reserve currency is unreliable? Get real. The number of viable cut off scenarios is vanishingly small - especially if it excludes catasophies that moot the point utterly.