Make Hormuz Great Again? Trump’s Iran trap could send oil to $200 a barrel
Donald Trump’s demand that allies help reopen the Strait of Hormuz exposes the strategic trap he has walked into in Iran. If Tehran can keep the choke point closed long enough, the real victory may not be military at all — it may be $200-a-barrel oil and the global economic chaos that follows.
Trump ‘demands’ allies help in Hormuz, Seymour says he hasn’t asked NZ yet
US President Donald Trump has warned that NATO faces a “very bad” future if US allies fail to assist in opening up the Strait of Hormuz, in an interview with the Financial Times, after Trump’s appeals to China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others to send warships to keep the strait open brought no commitments.
Speaking from aboard Air Force One, Trump said:
“Really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory … they should help us. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t be there at all, because we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil.”
Stuff.
Trump’s Iran war has become a Strait of Hormuz trap
No. No.
No. No. No.
No.
No. No. No.
Oh. No. You. Don’t.
What is this ‘we’ stuff, Donald?
You, you moron, you are the one who got tricked into this by Netanyahu, you are the one who crossed Iran’s only red line which was not to kill their holy man, and now their replacement is a bloke whose dad, wife and brother you just murdered.
Trump owns this escalation with Iran
There’s no ‘we’ here Champ, there’s you and Israel.
No American Administration was stupid enough to ever start a war with Iran because every time your people war game it out, it ends in an ocean of blood!
Why the Strait of Hormuz matters to global oil prices
Iran’s opening move is always shutting down the Strait, that this seems to be a revelation to Donald is terrifying…
What happens when the missile shield starts to fail
…Trump will start thrashing madly around the closer we get to the date when America and Israel run out of Interceptor missiles, which is as close as the first week of next month.
Iran still has 1,800 missiles and about 40,000 drones.
Iran can mine the Straits with ease and keep it choked off until oil hits $200 a barrel and then some.
That is the real trap here. Iran does not need to defeat America in a conventional war to claim victory. It simply needs to turn the Strait of Hormuz into an economic choke point long enough for oil prices, inflation and political panic to do the damage for it. Trump may have walked into a war he cannot win on the battlefield because Tehran can win it in the global economy.
It’s no better time for an EV and green tech push me thinks. The world has been addicted to oil for far too long.
Imagine if the middle east was full of hopeful prosperous countries like UAE, Oman, Qatar, Israel, Jordan and increasingly even Saudi Arabia. None of these places are perfect but they are increasingly hopeful. Hope is the ultimate antidote to war. None of these places is perfect – far from it – but there is hope. Trump may be a bull in a China store and his motives might be hard to read/trust, but some things are plainly a moral responsibility. Dismantling the hate infrastructure of Iran is one of them and is massively overdue. Ask the people of Syria, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon , Iraq and of course Iran itself. And I notice you never mention Iran having made Russia’s drones for killing and terrorizing Ukrainians. But Martyn, you can mouth off and indulge your moral cowardice and isolationism from the comfort of your Takapuna sofa. So long as YOU don’t have to pay more for petrol, the victims of this horrific regime and its proxies should just go on living (and dying) in the face of its ongoing threats, terror and attacks. You are way more stupid than I had previously thought.
Hey samleh1967@gmail.com you zionist quisling genocide apologist – I have NEVER lived in Takapuna.
EVER.
That you could get my address so wrong and still pretend to be superior must make you someone who is very ostracised from other family and friends.
Imagine being a Palestinian trying to live in Israel or a women trying to live in Saudi Arabia and it’s obvious that your description of freedom and prosperous is limited to certain people only. Martyn has never supported the government in Iran but he is sensible enough to live with current realities unlike Trump and you who live on your own imaginary planet where truth is not required.
Sammy, Trump is so obviously doing this for those Zionist arseholes it couldn’t be more clear. They are every bit as bad as any supreme leader in Iran. In fact the Israelis are worse. Are the Iranians stealing land off the rightful owners, sodomising prisoners, and constantly playing the victim? No. Trump has completely miscalculated either through his own stupidity or he is desperate to change a certain topic.
Surely they planned for it. High oil prices put the US Frackers back in business. Increases the price of the US gas they sell to Europe. Increases the price of the pirated Venezuelan oil they sell to China. All the while depleting their missile stocks for the benefit of the MIC awash in reorders. Epstein class making bank.
It might increase the wealth of Musk as well if Tesla sales improve?
It will be advantageous to China, they are EV and green tech market leaders now bar none. While Trump burns billions a day in an illegal war simultaneously shooting the oil industry in the foot.