The strait has both US and Chinese countermeasures in place so in the event they did try to shut it down for any extended period of time, the Iranian economy would collapse. USA is capable of its own oil production. China, not so much. China is likely willing to expend several $100M equipment “nodes” to insure oil continues to flow out of the gulf.
Yes because the Amish are self-sufficient and have the land and communal connections necessary to create their own food and medicine, which a vast majority of the public does not have, nor do any of the current administration’s policy encourage such self-sufficiency (largely bc running your own farm/animal husbandry facility is a bitch and a god damn half)