Some things never change. The Short Fake Trump declares that he is destroying the village Strait in order to save it.
Donald Trump has warned that US forces will immediately ‘begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz’ just hours after peace talks with Iran held in Pakistan broke down.
The US President also said in his Truth Social post: ‘I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran.
‘No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.
This is serious doubling down, because Iran doesn’t need the Strait to be open as much as China does. And it’s not going to be possible to keep the ships 1,000 kilometers away from the two ends of the Strait and still maintain the naval blockade.
Perhaps losing a few blockade ships will finally convince the American people that their military should not be permitted to take part in this war for Israel.
However, I suspect that this blockade exists mostly in the imagination, along with the greater part of Short Fake Trump’s other threats. After all, he already ended the Iranian nuclear threat twice now, and announced the strait was open too. Regardless, it should be obvious to even Fox News fans that doubling down is not the act of a party that knows it is winning.
Let’s not forget who will be the primary beneficiary of the strait being closed entirely: Russia.