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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Steve203 ⎊❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Abuse, threats, jive
Date: 04/11/26 12:20 PM
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Trump the Magnificent bragging about all the tankers heading to the US, to bid against USians for the product that USian big oil has to sell. I'm sure US big oil is very pleased with the return they are getting on that $1B bribe they paid in 2024.

After reading this, I had to stop laffing, before I could post it.

What if Trump actually wanted this outcome in Hormuz all along?

But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong?

That’s the hypothesis of one of the world’s shrewdest and most respected analysts of geopolitics and energy, Cambridge University political economy professor Helen Thompson. In a couple of recent broadcasts, she has argued that this entire outcome — including the apparent closure of the Strait of Hormuz — may not be a bug of the war at all, but a deliberate feature.

The Iran war may be “part of an attempt by the Trump administration to reset the energy part of the world geopolitically,” she told Bloomberg Podcasts.

That, says Thompson, is the consistent “thread” through the second Trump administration’s foreign policy — including the intervention in oil-rich Venezuela and its attempts to destabilize resource-rich Greenland. It is also, she points out, part of the geopolitical blueprint that the administration laid out last fall.

This doesn’t leave the rest of the world with many good options. Either the Iranian regime has an accidental stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, or it achieved this with the deliberate connivance of the Trump administration.

msn.com - What if trump actually wanted this outcome in hormuz all along

They said it out loud, two years ago. "Energy domination".

Steve
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