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Posted on 03/13/2026 1:48:30 PM PDT by silent majority rising
Our Sages tell us that we must always anticipate possibilities of what might happen and look for solutions.
Iran - with a GDP smaller than the state of Texas - has pressed pause on the global economy. The Strait of Hormuz, barely 21 miles wide, carries 20 percent of the world's oil supply every single day. And right now, it is closed.
The conventional response - to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, broker a ceasefire, rush the tankers through - is available.
It is also a missed opportunity of historic proportions. There is another path in which the story of Yosef can illuminate the path.
Yosef HaTzaddik did not merely allow survival in the famine. He used the seven years of plenty - while others were eating - to build the architecture that made Egypt the indispensable provider when crisis struck. "And all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Yosef, because the famine was severe in all the earth" (Bereishit 41:57). He did not eliminate the famine. He restructured who held the leverage when it arrived.
President Trump and the government of Israel can employ the same logic.
Instead of scrambling to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as fast as possible, the United States can use this crisis - while the world is maximally motivated - to restructure global energy architecture permanently so that the Strait of Hormuz can never again hold civilization hostage.
Step One: The Announcement
The President can address the nation - not to manage expectations but to announce a transformation. Every pending domestic LNG permit can be fast-tracked. Every stalled offshore drilling license can be approved.
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Trump is playing this one to win.
This is not the equivocal Viet Nam. This is for keeps.
Vietnam was a good deal to do with Johnson (his business interests were under his wife’s name) and his Democrat buddies getting wealthy from government war contracts, so prolonging it as opposed to winning was in their best interests.
We in the Military during the Vietnam Conflict could never figure out what we doing. This seems more clear at the moment.
“Not as bad as Vietnam” will make a good campaign slogan for the midterms.
We have plenty of oil in the US. Unfortunately we don’t have enough refineries to turn it into fuel.
Im curious how Iran will rearm. At some point Iran will be down to some spray and pray missiles and 70s era AKs…
Mebbe someone can build an underground pipeline way S of the Strait of Hormuz.
Except for possibly Obama, LBJ might have been our worst President ever.
For almost 5 decades, Iran has been using the Strait of Hormuz as a weapon to hold the global oil markets hostage while they export terrorism throughout their region and beyond. More recently they extended this policy to the Strait of Mandeb, using their Houthi proxies (with Iranian weapons, intelligence and targeting) to shut down traffic through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. This is far more than an American-Israel problem. Even before Epic Fury started, Suez Canal traffic was 61% below the pre-Houthi attack period. We are more than justified in taking whatever measures are necessary to defeat Iran, but Mediterranean and European countries have far more reason to end Iran’s terror reign.
I wonder how quickly this plan could be put into effect and how open Russia would be to it. It’s definitely unwise to allow the world economy to put all its eggs into a 2 mile stretch of vulnerable waterway.
So Ukraine can blow it up.
The author’s Door 2 seems more in line with the transformative Trump administration part deux.
If he could pull that off, it would certainly change the world. A lot of moving parts. 3D Chess. I don’t know if it’s politically possible, but the status quo, Door #1, is unacceptable. We’ve been through it many times and it leads right back where we are today.
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The US exports fuel and refined products everyday.
We import less than a million barrels of refined gasoline a week and export 6 million. In addition we consume 65 million. Seems like we are doing alright for now.
We should work with Oman, UAE and Saudis to being immediate construction pipelines across Oman to the Arabian Sea. Pipeline are cheap and easy in the desert, and it will permanent solve the problem.
No one is going to ignore a known oil reserve.
Cutting Iran out now is a good idea.
But if they are not removed (unconditional surrender), their oil will start flowing again and be part of the market.
Then, once again, the markets would be threatened by its removal.
The great (not just good) thing about unconditional surrender is that they can lose territory.
How about 100 miles inland and along the current Iranian coast goes to someone else?
Great article. I like the idea, and wouldn’t be surprised if DJT has thought of it.
If the US Navy can’t reliably safeguard a tanker, it can’t safeguard an aircraft carrier.
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