Holy delusion, Batman!
Trump literally said we had to quit the war because it threatened global economic depression!
To repeat, if not already clear to you, he quit the war because of the consequences the Straits closure had on international commerce. You have it exactly backwards.
So, how are oil proces down if the number of ships going through the Strait are one-onehundredth what it was in February? Or are they lying and the Strait is really wide open?
I guess those two numbers are my imagination?
Gather the ability to hold two opposing ideas in your head at the same time. That’s how one starts to see the bigger picture.
Yes that factored into a strategic decision to withhold a military offensive for 60 days …but also to a strategic political move to let Iranian internal political fractures develop and widen, to sort out the pragmatics from the fanatics, to offer Iran an opportunity to see what it could gain by cooperation with the international community instead of bluffing and threatening to control it….ie, give the pragmatics some space to make their move.
Don’t get me wrong…I don’t yet see any good guys emerging as Iranian leaders. The pragmatics we are signing MOUs with…are men with blood on their hands. They are still holding the population in thrall with the brutal coercive tools of the radicals…the internal security forces, the court system, even ideology where it suits their power.
This is the transformative battle yet to be fought, once an Iranian opposition movement coalesces into a single force and power, with a recognized new leadership. We can’t fight this one with bombs. Oh we can use military force conventional and UW, to defend our presence beside our Arab allies, and to clear “ debris” from resistance within Iran to enlightened reform …but this evil regime has to rot from within.