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@DrJStrategy Awesome, well said and I hope for their sake the Europeans and NATO learn this lesson and begin to pay their own way for the benefits they receive from us.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@EnesFreedom Well said! And I appreciate your candor and dedication to our country!

Eileen Gu is a traitor. She was born in America, raised in America, lives in America, and chose to compete against her own country for the worst human rights abuser on the planet, China. She built her fame in a free country, then chose to represent an authoritarian regime while cashing in on endorsements linked by watchdog groups to mass detention and forced labor camps. When human rights come up, she disappears. That’s not neutrality. That’s a choice. She chose to play for a country responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of its own people and that is running concentration camps right now, instead of the country where she was born and given opportunity. You don’t get to enjoy the freedoms of U.S. citizenship while acting as a global PR asset for the Chinese Communist Party. By choosing to promote the CCP on the world stage, Eileen Gu forfeited any moral claim to America and should not keep her U.S. citizenship. She chose Communism over Freedom.

@NightOwl_00 @WW2Facts What a moron you’re a real idiot Chris M.

@WW2Facts Trump would just call him a loser.

Marked by his helmet on a stick, a fallen US soldier lies on the side of a road during the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in December, 1944. #History #WWII

You are sick! I hope you are apprehended, tried and sent to jail!

Virginia Commonwealth University nurse instructs TikTok followers to contaminate ICE agents' food, jab opponents with paralytic foxnews.com/video/63883869…

@SarahXArt Yes! You sure are!!!

@WHLeavitt Some, few could/should stay.

According to a 60 Minutes segment, the Trump administration views anyone entering the US illegally as a criminal—because federal law defines illegal entry as a crime, making them all eligible for deportation. Do you support deporting all illegals, no exceptions? A. Yes B. No

@StandUpForTrmp For ICE, the Rule of Law, and for defending our Constitution.

Jessica Tarlov just said that most Americans are against the ICE raids. Let's test out that theory! Are you for or against the raids? Be honest!

@RightScopee No way!

Do you want Barak Obama back back again? Be honest A. YES B. NO

@HumanityChad Wow, beautiful and inspiring.

This little lady plays like an angel. She relies only on her ears, as she’s blind.. Her talent is breathtaking and deserves unlimited love 👍

@syndrome22q1 @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman @karolineleavitt @atensnut @lindayaX @dbongino @bennyjohnson @alphafox @MrBeast #MerryChristmasJustin I hope you reached your goal !

My Name is Justin i have a disability and all i want for Christmas this year is to get millions of chirstmas wishes thats all i really want for christmas this year by using the hashtag below #MerryChristmasJustin lets see if we can make this gift come true

@Bubblebathgirl You dumb idiots and some, if not all of you, are also hypocrites. You twist the meaning of the oath to satisfy your pathetic political ambitions.

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) is terrified now it’s sinking in she committed treason by telling military not to follow orders. The Constitution is clear on consequences for treason and she’s trying to talk her way out of it. Give Houlahan life in prison.

@brithume Well, we better protect him and ensure he can have a full term to drive forward the American agenda because the dems have no idea of what to do.

Quote: "Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt has an American president been this powerful or this busy. In his hyperactive second term, Mr. Trump doesn’t merely walk and chew gum at the same time. He dances on tightropes while juggling chainsaws." wsj.com/opinion/trumps…

@nicksortor RIP Judge Caprio! You made us all proud of being Americans and specially those of us who served we appreciate how you treated our less fortunate brothers and sisters in the service. You are a great example and a great American!

🚨 JUST IN: Frank Caprio, known as “America’s nicest judge,” has passed away at 88 from cancer Fly high, your honor 🙏🏻 Judge Caprio had a soft spot in his courtroom for veterans experiencing hard times, and instead of bankrupting them, he’d pay most of their fines himself in many cases. An absolute legend.

@MAGANewsX No

Simple YES or NO poll. Be honest! Should dual citizens be able to hold office in the United States? A. YES B. NO

@elonmuskTN Beautiful cars.

Legal Iranian immigrant wearing a Trump shirt is CONFRONTED by an old leftist at the gym.

@AntiWokeMemes Yes!

@JDVanceNewsX Yes!

🚨BREAKING: Should able-bodied adults on welfare be required to be available for work for their local government doing things like trash pickup, mowing, cleaning, helping elderly and other jobs to improve their community? YES or NO?