🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump is ready to walk away and leave Hormuz closed…
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump told aides he’ll end the war even if the Strait stays shut.
The mission to reopen it would extend the conflict beyond his 4-6 week timeline, so he’s punting it to diplomacy or telling allies to handle it themselves.
A Brookings expert called this “unbelievably irresponsible.”
The U.S. started a war that closed a waterway carrying 20% of the world’s oil and is now planning to leave without reopening it.
Five weeks. 3,000+ dead. $200 billion requested. 300+ Americans wounded.
Oil above $100.
Global recession odds rising.
Asian nations rationing fuel. Gulf allies absorbing nightly bombardment.
And the Strait that triggered the entire escalation spiral stays in Iranian hands.
