Boom!
Everyone needs to wake up. The US does not care about the Strait anymore. Trump got what he wanted.
Think about what just happened: For over 100 years, the Strait of Hormuz was controlled by London's insurance monopoly Lloyd's. They decided which tankers sailed, which countries got coverage, and at what premium. OPEC set the price. The US Navy kept it open. The whole world depended on one choke point.
Trump looked at that system and said: no more.
He closed the Strait. He made Iran put up a toll gate. He broke Lloyd's monopoly by offering US-backed insurance. He lifted sanctions on Russia. He opened diplomatic channels with Pakistan as broker. He told Europe: buy from us or figure it out yourselves.
It's messy. It's ruthless. But that was the point. He wanted the world to see how fragile the old system was. How one country Iran could bring global trade to its knees by closing a narrow strip of water. He wanted every nation to feel that vulnerability.
He dismantled OPEC. No more cartel controlling supply and price. He broke London's insurance monopoly. No more middlemen in the City deciding who sails. He lifted sanctions on Russia now Russia is selling oil to Asia, making deals, benefiting from the chaos.
It's a free market now. No fixed prices. No single superpower controlling the flow. Every country can drill, refine, sell, and buy from whoever they want. Russia sells to Armenia at a discount. China buys from Russia and resells at 3x price. The US drills its own and sells to Europe. Iran collects yuan at its toll gate.
And here's the key lesson: If Iran goes to war in the future, or if any country tries to close the Strait again, the world will never go to its knees again. Because now everyone knows. Everyone saw what happened. Everyone will build alternatives pipelines, refineries, strategic reserves, new shipping routes, land corridors.
The old system of one choke point controlling the world is over. The US broke it on purpose. The world will adapt. And it will never be that vulnerable again.
Promethean Action: The pain was the lesson. The chaos was the teacher. Now build. Drill. Refine. Store. Diversify. So it never happens again