The United Arab Emirates have offered to build a canal to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, and thus piss-off the Iranian regime big time. It will only cost a few £mega-squillion and will be cheaper, as well as easer & quicker to build than Britain's HS2 and could actually get completed and do something useful. No bats are likely to be harmed in the building of the canal.
It's a toss-up whether the best source of funding would be crowd funding, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk or a sweepstake on how many Supreme Leaders Iran is likely to get through before they run out of Ayatollahs or America runs of of shells, drones and missiles. International oil companies might even, eventually become slightly interested.
