Why is the US policing shipping lanes 11,600 kilometres away from the US?
Discussion
Part of the deal, in 1971, of moving the world to the petro-dollar was US promise to protect oil shipments worldwide.
Did the deal include bullets on supporting genocide of armless women and babies?
Do you understand why JFK was assassinated?
It has little to do with "shipping lanes" and much to do with protecting the wealthiest and most powerful ethnic group and power structure on planet Earth, for whom Americans are just so much cannon fodder.