Trump’s Real Aims In The Iran War Are Becoming Clear
As I have been saying. The disruption of the Strait has helped move the center of gravity of the entire global energy market from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America. Restoring transit now, after that’s already been achieved, stabilizes global prices.
It has also incentivized a pipeline construction boom in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Syria, and possibly Israel, to the great benefit of U.S. companies, but the even greater benefit of long-term energy prices.
But that’s not Trump’s endgame.
Donald Trump was morally outraged at the Iranian regime’s mass murder of 42,000 peaceful protestors in January. He’ll never tell the the aim of the war is regime change, because no one knows if it’s possible to bring that about entirely from the air, and he’s never going to invade. But I’ll tell you, and have been telling you: it is.
The blockade has shut down the entire Iranian coast. Nothing’s getting in or out. The economy can’t take much more. But it’s worse than that. Even IRGC leaders are saying they can’t sustain it much longer, and the speaker of the Iranian parliament (a former IRGC commander) said on camera “we’re starving.”
Well, there’s a solution to that. But more to the point, maybe you shouldn’t have executed young girls for getting raped, or run proxy wars across the region for decades. The jig is up.
Now Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is seizing Iranian officials’ offshore bank accounts, something they never imagined possible. When he’s done, they won’t have an exit path, and the money stolen from the Iranian people will be available to a free Iran.
And make no mistake: there’s a reason Trump has left most Iranian economic infrastructure alone. He wants a free Iran, but he wants a free Iran to be rich. That better country will be First World within a generation: a partner for peace, a stabilizing force in the region, and a place where all its people can build a real future.
Iran will be free. It may take a minute. It certainly won’t take as long as the 47 year darkness it’s endured through most of my lifetime.
