Man child Trump throwing tantrum...close the strait, open the strait, close the strait...

Trump has now blockaded the Strait of Hormuz after the failure of the talks in Islamabad, Pakistan. After weeks of begging allies and cronies to help keep the Strait open, Trump is basically putting another lock in place to prevent oil from leaving the Persian Gulf. That failure to persuade allies to help in preventing the closure of the Straits has soured relations between Washington and Europe all for nothing. Now he is begging allies to do the exact opposite of his earlier plea.

The earlier boasting by Trump about USA minesweepers having cleared the mines in the Gulf is more a figment of Trump's imagination. Trying to push the narrative that the Iranians themselves do not know the location of those mines is a lame excuse that contradicts the minesweeping story.

The blockading is, without a doubt, an attempt to stop China from navigating the Strait to access Iranian oil, the main motive rather than the talking about Iran going to have nuke within two weeks. But such move is going to affect all countries, the USA and its allies included. Trump can gloat about the USA have more oil than it needs. Why are pump prices still going skywards if the USA has so much oil? What is the point when the USA has eventually to import finished products that are now being made with more expensive energy and will also cost more. That will affect the USA as much as China.

Worse to come is the threat by Iran to close the Bab Al-Mandeb, the other channel that could provide a lifeline for Saudi Arabia. That is going to affect allies like Japan, South Korea and Europe.


Anonymous