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@DrJStrategy I can’t wait for the movie

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.

@gghamari @chicksonright Why is this guy dredging up the USS Liberty incident from 59 years ago?

My expression when I hear someone say with a straight face that Israel fired missiles at Diego Garcia and it's an Israeli false flag operation. These people are literally insane.

@Villgecrazylady You need a hobby. Maybe crotchet

There is literally nothing normal about this woman’s story. And now she’s in charge of the largest conservative organization in the history of this country. I’m so tired of people pretending like we’re the ones out of line for questioning how she got here.

Music has forever been described as the UNIVERSAL language. But a song, if it is universal, could be interpreted in a billion different ways. The true beauty of art is what it means to the beholder.

@PaulDMauro They're putting the squeeze on the lemon

3-Minute Recap for Fri, 30 January: What you’re NOT hearing about the Lemon indictment

@UncensoredUSA Hate overrules rational thought

Facts. It’s all BS and excuses from the Left to do what they do best: destroying property and committing violence.

@RedWave_Press How can we allow a retired officer speak publicly of the commander in chief in that way? That doesn’t seem right.

BREAKING: Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is SUING the Department of War and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, seeking to block the Pentagon from downgrading his retirement rank and pay. Sandra Smith: “After moves to censure and discipline him, Kelly is asking a federal judge for an immediate injunction, trying to freeze the punishment while the case plays out in court.”

@WakeUpPatriott Yes

Do you support this? YES or NO? IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!

@OneOutof4 John Mellencamp is probably the greatest musician to come from Indiana. He’s the only one I can think of anyway

“Ain’t Even Done with the Night” is a song written by this Hoosier native and was released in 1980. 👉🏻 Can you name this artist?

@FreddieDuran @TrumpGirlOnFire Ok. Nixon looks nothing like FDR

@TrumpGirlOnFire Uhhhh no. Next...

These are not Presidents they are criminals...

@gracieback2 @UncensoredUSA Love Your Brother Like No Other

A book about Omar would be Titled….. ??? What ? 😂😂😡😡😳

@PeriklesGREAT @UncensoredUSA Hit the snooze button

If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you would do??

@Big_Ben_21 He took too long!

Can someone explain to me what is happening here 🤔

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@ofctimallen I wish I knew you personally

When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband: “That man… that young man… I forgive him.”  That moment deeply affected me.  I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: “ I forgive the man who killed my father.” Peace be with you all.

@StanManWithPlan @truthteller3837 @AndrewKolvet At first, I thought the same thing. I thought this guy insinuated something bad. Then I saw the other meaning.

Make Heaven crowded.

Whether or not Trump said today he hates the Democrats, how can liberals say, “He is not a uniter, how can we heal if he spews hatred!” He has been under attack for 10 years by the Democratic Party. And there’s no question that is not true. Are ppl really that tone deaf?

I rnever post my thoughts but today I want to say I hope September of 2025 and the deaths of a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina and speaker Charles Kirk in Utah are not forgotten and that something’s good, some shed of light comes from this madness, this darkness.