#Trump is now bragging about having met is goals in the #Iran war "weeks ahead of schedule"... three weeks into the war that was supposed to go on for " four to five weeks".

As usual, every word that's coming from #Trump's mouth is a lie.

What those goals are is probably a mystery to everyone in the #WhiteHouse, too.

Apart from that now #Trump threatens to attack civilian infrastructure (power stations to be precise) to force the iranian government to re-open the #straightofhormuz .

Apart from being a blunt violation of #internationallaw, I don't get the strategy behind it. (My best guess is that Trump is just copying #Putin in his war with #Ukraine - giving #Putin a good opportunity to deflect criticism.) People in #Iran are much less dependent on #energy than people in #Ukraine, since the winters aren't as cold, especially now that #winter is over and #spring is coming. I get that #Putin just wants to demoralise the Ukrainian population, to break their will to fight back and ultimately weaken their resistance. But in #Iran, much of the population is already *against* their government. They don't have the will to fight *for* their government and defend their country. (Of course, there are those that do - but still the situation is very different from Ukraine.)

#WAR #USPol #Trump #StraightofHormuz

And in another episode of Trump fights the war, our fearless Leader shows us how to win friends and influence allies

From BBC.com: Trump calls Nato allies 'cowards', saying it would be 'easy' for them to help open Strait of Hormuz

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce84073mr06t

#War #USPol #Trump #StraightofHormuz

From AP News.com Trump fumes at NATO for refusing to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, and embraces going it alone

https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-nato-strait-of-hormuz-europe-4e0cf38708e9c3ba8ea2a36148620067

Got half an hour? You could spend it on Nate Hagen's "Wide boundary news" in which he unpicks the consequences of a closed #Straightofhormuz

As always, Nate approaches the topic with a systemic or holistic lens.
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/wide-boundary-news-3-10-26
Fertiliser makes an obvious appearance. So does sulfur, but I'm not so sure about this, see #2.
Less obvious: the storage capacity for oil is brimming. When storage capacity is full, Iraq's oil producers for example need to either get rid of their surplus by dumping it into the environment – or shut down production. The latter is problematic for the old water-pressure based tech used in Iraq in particular because it means to potentially lose the whole oil deposit.

One surprising angle: religion. All 3 war parties have reason to, and indeed do, frame the war as a prerequisite to their respective Messiah's return.
In the US, complains were filed about military bosses telling their troupes that Trumler and the war are bringing about Armageddon or something.

#war #Iran #Israel

Since we’re apparently all experts on the #straightofhormuz now, did you know that the narrow bit of land that sticks out into it from the south, the part making it so narrow and rocky, is the Musandam Governate which is an exclave of Oman? And there’s another two-level UAE/Oman/UAE enclave to the south where the borders between the two countries get confusing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musandam_Governorate

This is how you play 4D chess #donaldtrump #iran #iranwar #straightofhormuz

Iran Has Just Fired the Most Dangerous Shot of This War and it wasn't a missile
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/iran-has-just-fired-the-most-dangerous-shot-of-this-war-and-it-wasnt-a-missile/

"uh oh, I've broken everything over here. You guys better come and fix it or you'll all be in deep trouble."

-US Foreign Policy

#uspol #straightofhormuz

Global economics and geopolitics, explained like you're 5. No wait, I asked a 5 year old to explain it instead. The kid seems pretty sharp! 🤓

https://youtu.be/WuXDFNEHUKY

#Iran #Straightofhormuz