PROF JOHN MEARSHEIMER SAYS TRUMP S BLOCKADE IS ILOGICAL, WIL BACLKFIRE SPECTACULARLY, HAS LED TO A 8% SURGE IN OIL PRICES OVER NIGHT, ALREADY

IS THERE NO ONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE, WSJ OR JP MORGAN WHO CAN DO SIMPLE PERCENTAGES AND CALCULATE THE PERCENTAGE BENEFIT OF A PLAN A  COMPARED TO THE PERCENTAGE LOSS  OF PLAN B AND PUT THE TWO IN RELATION

HORMUS BLOACKADE WILL WIPE 100S OF TILLIONS OFF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, BRING US TO ITS KNEES BUT DEPRIVE IRAN ONLY OF A BILLION OR SO DOLLARS IN REVENUE

CHINA, IRAN AND RUSSIA WILLBUY UP TH EWEST

Trump s blockade has led to a surge in oil prices overnight as markets digest the news that Trump is joining Iran in cutting off energy to the world to cause a global depression.

"Oil prices jumped back above $100 a barrel and global stocks fell after weekend talks between the US and Iran ended without an agreement and Donald Trump imposed a blockade of the strait of Hormuz."

Brent crude rose by nearly 7% to $101.74 a barrel on Monday morning, while US crude is up more than 8% to $104.69 a barrel.

Gas prices also increased, with the British wholesale gas contract for May soaring by 11.7% to 122.5p a therm."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/13/oil-price-tops-100-dollars-barrel-us-blockade-strait-of-hormuz

Prof John Mearsheimer criicized the logic behind the blockade, noting Trump and the US need more oil to get out to stop inflation and interest rates rising even further. To get more oil flowing is why he took the sanctions off Iranian and Russian oil the first place.

Will Trump’s Naval Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz Work? | John Mearsheimer and Joshua Landis talk to Tom Switzer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIhG1t-Uvac

Now he is doing the opposite and actively helped throttle the globe s oil supply.

Mearsheimer warned Iran and the Houthis could close the Red Sea energy route in returbution

The notion Trump could cut off one of the Iran s major sources of funding by the blockade  is crazy

Only about 100 tankers have transited the strait of Hormuz since the US and Israel started bombing Iran, meaning the revenue Iran has earned from its toll is miniscule in proportion to Iran own total government expenditure let alone the globe.

It might just be a billion usd or so. However, Iran can wipe 100s of trillions off the globe s economy just by choking the oil supply and bring the US to its knees. And now Trump has joined athe blockade he needs to lift and is throttling the trickle of oil coming out of Iran, encouraged by the WSJ which argued for this suicide in an Editorial.

Oil tankers now have to not just get past the Iranian controls, they have to get past US warships acting as pirates.

The Gulf states are could be wiped out. When no surplus revenue from the Gulf states going into the US stock market and Treasuries, there is a real risk of a swift crash.

 In addition, Iran has the backing of Russia and China who acting together can whethr the loss of Iranian seaborne oil much better than the rest of the world because they have oil in abundance, land routes and diversified suources of energy from RE to nuclear. As for food, China has invested in a major way in hydroponics meaning it does not need the fertilsers as much as the rest of the world does.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/13/oil-price-tops-100-dollars-barrel-us-blockade-strait-of-hormuz