Trump: "The amazing thing is we don't need the Hormuz Strait. We don't need it. We don't need it at all. We have so much oil. Our country is not affected by this."
Declaring we 'don't need' the Strait of Hormuz is a direct signal to our allies in Europe and Asia that they are on their own. National security isn't just about our own interests; it's about the stability of the system we spent 80 years building.

https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewweinstein/p/the-world-has-stopped-waiting-for?r=1yeyao&utm_medium=ios
The World Has Stopped Waiting for America to Come to Its Senses

The world is no longer waiting for America. Allies are hedging, rivals are advancing, and U.S. instability is reshaping global power in real time.

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