Trump Tries Playing Hardball In Hormuz; Ends Up A Laughing Stock

Trump tried to choke Iran through Hormuz and ended up smashing into his own side’s trade lifeline like the orange halfwit he is. Right, so Donald Trump has instigated a blockade on ships going to and from Iranian ports through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, though the word instigated is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, because what has followed is not some neat picture of Iran being economically strangled at sea but China saying no, you’re not stopping us or we’re going to have a problem; other nations like Britain and France saying no, we’re not going to help you in this act of self immolating stupidity, which is saying something given their leaderships, especially Keir Starmer who has been happy to launch bombers from UK soil and ‘defensively’ join Trump’s war in other ways. And although the Chinese aspect of this story is the bit the mainstream has focused on, they’ve not told the whole story, because it gets far worse for Trump. I wonder what China said to Trump to make him wet himself and allow that ship through in the end? A Chinese-owned tanker called Rich Starry carrying on through anyway. Trump wanted a display of control. He has got a display of leakage. He wanted fear. He has got argument. He wanted the image of everybody lining up behind Washington while Iran gets squeezed from the water. But he has had allies refusing to join, Beijing calling the move dangerous and irresponsible and seemingly saying something which made the orange drain from his face, and maritime data being used to show that traffic tied to Iran and traffic embarrassing to Washington have very much still been moving through the very route he said he was locking down.