The chattering class has once again been shocked by President Trump’s out-of-the-box actions. For years, we’ve been led to believe in the oft-repeated international consensus among “experts” according to which Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and has a stranglehold on the world’s hydrocarbon-powered economy.
In one fell swoop during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday Morning Futures show, the president flipped the script in declaring that the US was going to blockade Iranian oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz (implying that the US would be replacing Iran as the presumptive gatekeeper). The blockade aims to counter Iran’s control over the strait and its reported tolls on commercial vessels, with the president vowing to interdict any ship that pays Iran and to destroy mines laid by Iranian forces.
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