The Brilliance of Trump Blockading the Strait of Hormuz
President Trump does not like to be reactionary. While the 47th leader of the United States is not impatient, he likes to take the initiative and lead from the front. While Obama and Biden were late to respond to everything from inflation to conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, Trump’s proactive approach has produced much better results for the US in multiple theatres. The President has a vile Iranian regime that is both cornered and running out of options since the US has crippled the country’s economy and decimated the nation’s military. Trump is likely to soon get the Ayatollah’s to reach the kind of real long-term deal to permanently end the country’s nuclear program sooner rather than later.
America’s clear military superiority has been on display as the US has neutralized Iran’s military with very few casualties, and the country’s only card left to play was closing the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passage through which nearly 20 percent of the world’s oil travels. The sanctions Trump enforced, going back to his first term, had crippled Iran’s economy, and the President’s recent military action has eliminated the Iranian regime’s ability to respond to force. Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz is the only point of leverage the country had left, and this is why the US response to the Iranian dictatorship’s decision to close this passage was so critical.
President Trump’s decision to impose a US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz was brilliant for multiple reasons. First, this action takes away Iran’s ability to control the waterway. The Ayatollahs were planning to tax ships going through this area, and also to not allow American and certain countries’ other ships. Essentially, the Iranian dictatorship wanted to continue to use the Strait of Hormuz to both sell oil to countries such as China, as well as to collect toll revenues to fund the nation’s war effort against the US. Trump’s action all but cuts off the only real source or revenue for a regime that was already financially strained.
Second, and equally importantly, America is now in a position where the country has the leverage despite not breaking the fragile ceasefire both nations reached nearly a week ago. While the US used force to board an Iranian ship, America did not kill anyone, the vessel was taken peacefully, and the United States has been able to implement this blockade without taking any lives. Trump has prevented Iran from choking off access to the Strait of Hormuz as a point of leverage, and the President has done this without breaking the ceasefire or using deadly force. If Iran tries to break the US blockade, the country will obviously be in violation of the ceasefire, and that is important, since America’s actions will be seen as more justified as well.
Despite the usual lies of the failing and corrupt legacy media, Trump and the US military have complete control of the current conflict with a vile and corrupt Iranian regime that has been murdering its own people for decades. America has decimated Iran’s military and also now eliminated the control’s only significant point of leverage, controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has also effectively prevented the Ayatollahs financially benefiting from the closing of this key waterway without using any force or violating the current ceasefire. The obvious key to ending the current war is for an Iranian regime that only respects strength to have an incentive to reach a substantive and long-term deal with the US Trump’s action to take away the Persian country’s control of the Strait should be a checkmate in this conflict.
