The president added that he has “instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”
A blockade is the only way, that maybe, you can improve your negotiating position for “cheap”
Negotiating position for...
What?
Everything trump wants, he already had.
What he wants now is the strait to be open, it's only closed because they're attacking Iran. If they stopped attacking Iran and fucked off, why would Iran keep blocking the strait?
No one, especially Iran, want the strait blocked. Iran is blocking it because that's their leverage to get the war to stop
If trump blocks the fucking strait, what do you think his condition is? You think he's gonna demand Iran that they stop being attacked? Iran already wants to stop having war crimes committed against them, they can't want to stop the war crimes anymore.
Where the actual fuck are you getting any of your information on about this conflict?