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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Peace talks collapsed in Islamabad yesterday. The blockade started this morning. And now the White House is quietly putting a new menu of options on the table. Here's what Trump is actually considering right now. Option 1 is what we already know: the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Choke Iran's oil exports, cut off roughly half of government revenue, force Tehran back to the table from a position of economic pain. Option 2 is what they're not advertising: limited, targeted military strikes. Not a full bombing campaign restart. Surgical. Specific. Enough to signal the war is back on without committing to another weeks-long operation that drains US munitions and tests a war-weary domestic base. Option 3, the least likely, is going back to full-scale war. Officials say Trump doesn't want it. The munitions stockpile is already a concern. And politically, the MAGA base was never enthusiastic about another Middle East ground-up. The problem with every option is real. Iran has survived decades of sanctions without capitulating. It survived weeks of U.S. and Israeli bombing with its government intact. Its negotiators flew home from Islamabad and immediately called the talks "a foundation for a diplomatic process." That's not the language of a side that thinks it lost. One Trump economic adviser put it bluntly: secure the strait at any cost or "the whole world economy could tumble into a global recession." That's a distress signal. Meanwhile Trump spent Sunday golfing in Doral, feuding with Bruce Springsteen on social media, and watching UFC. The man processing whether to restart a war against a nuclear-threshold state in his leisure hours. Iran's red line is enrichment. The US red line is the bomb. Those positions did not move one inch in 21 hours of talks in Pakistan. The blockade is the middle option between talking and fighting. But as a strategy it only works if Iran's economy cracks before Trump's political patience does. Right now neither side is blinking. And the clock on a two-week ceasefire is running.