Trump Centcom has to let this tanker pass and all tankers for economic, legal, military and political reasons because as MTG notes Trump s voters are going to wipe the GOP and Trump out at the midterms.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15731223/JD-Vance-threatens-Iran-condemns-regimes-economic-terrorism-Strait-Hormuz-Live-updates.html
Trump could lose more seats than Orban. The opposition party could gain not a third but 75% of the Congress and Senate because of the economic damage of the embargo.
Apart from the fact it is illegal to for the US Navy to stop or interfere with any tanker, there is the threat that the world economy is about to collapse.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-sanctioned-tanker-signaling-chinese-ownerships-tests-trump-blockade-hormuz-crossing
Zerohedge has finally actually got the point.
Energy is vital for all production.
When 25% of the globe s oil and gas energy is taken out of circulation, it results in an almost equal reduction in production. Zerohedge claims the ratio is 1 to 0.9. Is it lower? Higher?
Anyway, assuming the ratio of oil, gas to production is 1 to 0.9, it follows about 22% of the globe s production will be gone if this blockade continues for a year and we are already on one and half months.
That is a catastrophe.
Game over. End for the Western economies.
The US, UK, Europe cannot survive a reduction of production on that scale that suddeny. There is no time to adjust. There will be mass unemployment, entire supply chains shutting down forever, mass starvation due to the lack of fertilsiers on top of all that. Disaster.
China actually is most prepared. It has been diversifying its energy from oil and gas precisely to prepare for a conflict over Hormuz.
Yes, anyone who knows the impact of D 15 218 and Geroge Soros being caught in 2015 knows why China and Russia have been preparing for 11 years for a war with the Epstein Billionaire ruled West.
China has made massive investments in RE, including a new hydrolectric dam, nuclear, its own coal mines and ensured it is gigantic stockpiles of oil.
Naturally,it needs oil but not as deperately as the West needs oil.
Moreoever, the US desperately needs products from China. If China does not export billions of stuff to the US every month, the US economy is also finished since its own manufacturing base is decimated.
Iran also does not need revenue as much as it needs to destroy the West in a few weeks just by keeping the Strait closed.It can destroy the Gulf States, the US dollar, the entire Wet and then come in with China and Russia and buy it all up.
Moreover, the oil must be of a sufficiently low cost. If not enough people can afford it, it is the same as there being no oil.
Militarily, China has the missiles needed to sink the entire US navy in 20 minutes as Hegseth admitted in wargames.
Plus, the US navy is now really shot on missiles.
As for the idea that a mass ground invasion can take Hormuz, that is delusional.Not even one million US troops could take and hold Hormz because of geographical and miitary factors not to mention morale. Troops who do not believe in a cause are going to find a way of removing their commander in chief and his minions in Centcom.
Unfortunately, Trump, JD Vance and Kushner have turned out to be utterly delusional morons so we cannot be sure they do not attack the Chinese tanker, trigger the sinking of the entire US fleet, and the collapse of the US and Western economy.
One reason they are so moronic is the low quality of the US medica,including Tucker Carlson, the alter ego of JD Vance, who we can now say for 100% certain from what happened in Islamabad is an Epstein Billionaire tool and a moron.
From media
The reason is that energy is the master resource. It cannot be treated like other resources. Energy is the resource that makes all other resources available. Nothing gets done without energy. The correlation between economic activity and energy use is 0.9 (where 1.0 represents a perfect correlation). This should come as no surprise. When the economy is growing, energy use grows with it as energy fuels the economic activity that pushes growth.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/strait-hormuz-crisis-exposes-fatal-flaw-economic-thinking
From media
Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts GOP "Slaughter" In November
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, APR 14, 2026 - 05:10 AM
After six years as one of Donald Trump's most reliable foot soldiers, Marjorie Taylor Greene has made it clear that she's done - not just with Trump personally, but with what she believes the Republican Party is about to become, and is pretty much predicting disaster for them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/marjorie-taylor-greene-predicts-gop-slaughter-november
hina condemned the US naval blockade of Iranian ports as “dangerous and irresponsible” after Donald Trump threatened to sink any boats that defy it.
The blockade came into force on Monday after peace talks between Washington and Tehran collapsed in Pakistan, although a fragile ceasefire still holds.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/14/iran-war-latest-news-trump-israel-strait-of-hormuz-peace/
From media
Following news that two tankers, one of which indicated China as its destination, had turned around earlier in the day after the Trump blockade of the Straits of Hormuz had kicked in, one of them - a tanker linked to China - is making its way through the Strait of Hormuz, testing President Trump’s naval blockade, Bloomberg reported.
Rich Starry, a 188-meter medium-range tanker earlier known as Full Star, was blacklisted by Washington in 2023 for helping Tehran evade energy sanctions. It was not clear on this occasion whether it visited Iranian ports before its transit, or is carrying cargo.
A Chinese tanker under US sanctions passed though the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, defying Washington's naval blockade that began on Monday.
After circling the area late on Monday and initially turning back, the 600ft long vessel passed through the waterway on Tuesday.
Oil tanker Rich Starry is owned by Shanghai Xuanrun Shipping Co Ltd. and became a target for US sanctions because it was used to transport Iranian crude.
Rich Starry is a medium-range tanker that is carrying about 250,000 barrels of methanol, according to the data. It loaded the cargo at its last port of call, the UAE's Hamriyah, the data showed.
Donald Trump announced on Sunday that the US navy would block 'any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz', adding on Monday that the US would blockade ships 'entering or exiting Iranian ports'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15731223/JD-Vance-threatens-Iran-condemns-regimes-economic-terrorism-Strait-Hormuz-Live-updates.html
Trump Centcom has to let this tanker pass and all tankers for economic, legal, military and political reasons because as MTG notes Trump s voters are going to wipe the GOP and Trump out at the midterms.
Trump could lose more seats than Orban. The opposition party could gain not a third but 75% of the Congress and Senate because of the economic damage of the embargo.
Apart from the fact it is illegal to for the US Navy to stop or interfere with any tanker, there is the threat that the world economy is about to collapse.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-sanctioned-tanker-signaling-chinese-ownerships-tests-trump-blockade-hormuz-crossing
Zerohedge has finally actually got the point.
Energy is vital for all production.
When 25% of the globe s oil and gas energy is taken out of circulation,it results in an almost equal reduction in production. Zerohedge claims the ratio is 1 to 0.9. Is it lower? Higher?
Anyway, assuming the ratio of oil, gas to production is 1 to 0.9, that is about 22% of the globe s production gone if this blockade continues for a year and we are already on one and half months. That is a catastrophe.
Game over. End for the Western economies.
The US, UK, Europe cannot survive a reduction of production on that scale that suddeny. There is no time to adjust. There will be mass unemployment, entire supply chains shutting down forever, mass starvation due to the lack of fertilsiers on top of all that. Disaster.
China actually is most prepared. It has been diversifying its energy from oil and gas precisely to prepare for a conflict over Hormuz.
Yes, anyone who knows the impact of D 15 218 and Geroge Soros being caught in 2015 knows why China and Russia have been preparing for 11 years for a war with the Epstein Billionaire ruled West.
China has made massive investments in RE, including a new hydrolectric dam, nuclear, its own coal mines and ensured it is gigantic stockpiles of oil.
Naturally,it needs oil but not as deperately as the West needs oil.
Iran also does not need revenue as much as it needs to destroy the West in a few weeks just by keeping the Strait closed.It can destroy the Gulf States, the US dollar, the entire Wet and then come in with China and Russia and buy it all up.
Moreover, the oil must be of a sufficiently low cost. If not enough people can afford it, it is the same as there being no oil.
Militarily, China has the missiles needed to sink the entire US navy in 20 minutes as Hegseth admitted in wargames.
Plus, the US navy is now really shot on missiles.
As for the idea that a mass ground invasion can take Hormuz, that is delusional.Not even one million US troops could take and hold Hormz because of geographical and miitary factors not to mention morale. Troops who do not believe in a cause are going to find a way of removing their commander in chief and his minions in Centcom.
From media
The reason is that energy is the master resource. It cannot be treated like other resources. Energy is the resource that makes all other resources available. Nothing gets done without energy. The correlation between economic activity and energy use is 0.9 (where 1.0 represents a perfect correlation). This should come as no surprise. When the economy is growing, energy use grows with it as energy fuels the economic activity that pushes growth.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/strait-hormuz-crisis-exposes-fatal-flaw-economic-thinking
From media
Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts GOP "Slaughter" In November
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, APR 14, 2026 - 05:10 AM
After six years as one of Donald Trump's most reliable foot soldiers, Marjorie Taylor Greene has made it clear that she's done - not just with Trump personally, but with what she believes the Republican Party is about to become, and is pretty much predicting disaster for them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/marjorie-taylor-greene-predicts-gop-slaughter-novemberChina condemned the US naval blockade of Iranian ports as “dangerous and irresponsible” after Donald Trump threatened to sink any boats that defy it.
The blockade came into force on Monday after peace talks between Washington and Tehran collapsed in Pakistan, although a fragile ceasefire still holds.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/14/iran-war-latest-news-trump-israel-strait-of-hormuz-peace/
From media
Following news that two tankers, one of which indicated China as its destination, had turned around earlier in the day after the Trump blockade of the Straits of Hormuz had kicked in, one of them - a tanker linked to China - is making its way through the Strait of Hormuz, testing President Trump’s naval blockade, Bloomberg reported.
Rich Starry, a 188-meter medium-range tanker earlier known as Full Star, was blacklisted by Washington in 2023 for helping Tehran evade energy sanctions. It was not clear on this occasion whether it visited Iranian ports before its transit, or is carrying cargo.
This exit from the Persian Gulf is a second attempt for the carrier in less than 24 hours. Just as the blockade came into effect, the Rich Starry was making its way into the narrow waterway near Iran’s Qeshm Island and turned back, as reported earlier, only to restart its exit just hours later, broadcasting that it has a Chinese owner and crew. While this is a safety mechanism frequently used by vessels not to attract Iran's attention, it will now test US resolve to challenge vessels tied to the world’s largest oil importer.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-sanctioned-tanker-signaling-chinese-ownerships-tests-trump-blockade-hormuz-crossing
From media
The reason is that energy is the master resource. It cannot be treated like other resources. Energy is the resource that makes all other resources available. Nothing gets done without energy. The correlation between economic activity and energy use is 0.9 (where 1.0 represents a perfect correlation). This should come as no surprise. When the economy is growing, energy use grows with it as energy fuels the economic activity that pushes growth.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/strait-hormuz-crisis-exposes-fatal-flaw-economic-thinking
From media
Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts GOP "Slaughter" In November
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, APR 14, 2026 - 05:10 AM
After six years as one of Donald Trump's most reliable foot soldiers, Marjorie Taylor Greene has made it clear that she's done - not just with Trump personally, but with what she believes the Republican Party is about to become, and is pretty much predicting disaster for them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/marjorie-taylor-greene-predicts-gop-slaughter-november
