In about two days, there will be reports of massive volume of shorts on oil company stocks that occurred in the minutes before the announcement, then another day after that, nobody will talk about it again.

From mediocre incompetents to outright villains.

Are they also going to block the ships that Iran and Japan agreed could pass through, for example? Are they really going to screw over a strategic ally like Japan just for...? You know what? Yeah, they definitely would.

"You're not blocking the strait of Hormuz, I am. I dont even want your strait, anyways"

So now instead of zero blockades like we had two months ago, we have two blockades?

I hate these Maga Yanks so much.

I'm a little surprised everyone is mostly agreeing that he's doing this because he's stupid. I mean yes, he's a fucking idiot, but someone told him to start a blockade. And as we all know from the first one a week ago, it's only gonna jack up prices on literally everything even more than they are right now.

It's all a plan by the billionaire class that openly runs our country now to keep inflating prices so consumers don't have anything.

Edit: like c/BamboodPanda said, "Oil determines the price of shipping. Shipping determines the price of everything. They want to jack up everything."

He’s playing the stock market again

Can't wait for the USN to start blowing up Chinese tankers and cargo ships.

Or seizing SK and Japanese vessels for that matter.

Are we going to prevent our most Asian important allies from receiving energy supplies that could prevent, or at least significantly delay, their complete economic collapse?

Lol so let me get this straight. We went from a completely open and free strait, to a closed one, to one ran and toll, to a double blocked strait. We are up 200% blockage. Art of the deal.

Also Trump is going to starve out all of the middle east and Asia? He'll be tacoing here soon. Otherwise WW3 is guaranteed because China and Russia are preparing to have their forces escort their materials through because Iran doesn't have beef with them.

Oh, sure, this will bring down gas prices.

Snip snap snip snap

So Iran is Naboo

Lame-ass copycats.

He saw then charging a toll and wanted to also charge a toll.

So let me get this straight... Of Hormuz.

I'd hope global reaction will be anger against US. If Israel had paused its genocide of Lebanon, 20 ships/day would have flowed out of SoH. Now it will be 0. Trump just threated NATO and other allied flag ships.

Way out is for world to negotiate with Iran to pay equivalent revenue to tolls in order to have SoH fully open. World paying instead of US/Israel, if world is too timid to show anger to US.

So now they went from the bad guy to the worse guy in this conflict. Because of course