It stopped being funny about 7 years ago.

 

Or maybe you're not reading into it at all.

Here's part of the deal about Trump wrt to Hormuz: the possibility is very real/likely that he's actually trying to keep it closed as long as possible. Every war game run by pentagon nerds last several decades has come to the conclusion that IRGC would close it and would be able to keep it closed indefinitely with minimal resources. So why would you want to attack Iran directly unless keeping the straight closed benefitted you.... that's why he blockaded as soon as they set up their toll booth.

Maybe it's tiring to you because it doesn't make sense to you and you can't see the play or even imagine that there is one.

I do not agree with the actions, nor do I agree with the rhetoric/antics, but there's clearly leverage being applied here, and keeping it closed is part of it while hinting at a looming peace deal everytime the treasury yield hits 4.4%.

Also, he's very clearly treating the NATO allies like children, just like he is with California, and letting them stick their climate change fear fork into the outlet so they can feel the shock of the stupid things they do.

 

Who said we should murder a few million? The area along Hormuz is sparsely populated, and by now mostly by combatants. Announce your intention, give everybody 48 hours to get inland and take out the remaining weapon sites with airbursts. Repeat as necessary until Iran recognizes the internationally recognized right of passage.

 

It's funny that you think after dropping a bunch of bombs on a country that they should act rationally and lawfully.

 

Maybe that is the whole plan. He told us last year that he destroyed their nukes, and apparently our intel said they were far away from one, but suddenly they were “2 weeks away” again.

 

Israel has entered the chat.

 

You don’t think Japan and Germany act rationally and lawfully?

 

Presidents rarely do pull the strings, tbh. Not in my lifetime at least.

I think whether or not he is an idiotic petulant child or not is rather irrelevant, because if he is, those attributes are therefore useful and valuable to his economic situation, and if he's not, then he's not, AND he's got significant percentage of the world duped.

Modern day Germany certainly does not act rationally. They are literally trying to commit economic and sovereign suicide.

 

The US would run out of munitions long before the straight can ever be opened by such strategy. It's too asymmetric.

 

my other question then is if they are capping their wells and they will be damaged without repair then is not the market already priced in for this scenario? Meaning 20% of production is gone for years, therefore, it doesn't really matter if the straight is open or not?