Trump räumt ein, dass er die Straße von Hormus nicht kontrollieren kann, während er seine Verbündeten aufruft, sie zu besetzen

Allies? What allies. I thought ‚The all powerful America doesn’t need any Allies‘.

Opening the Strait of Hormuz is not a simple binary of military capability but a complex challenge of asymmetric denial and strategic burden-shifting. While the U.S. has neutralized much of Iran’s conventional navy, it cannot „sink“ a threat environment defined by mobile coastal batteries and thousands of sophisticated sea mines; until the risk of a single strike is zero, global insurance markets will refuse coverage, keeping the waterway effectively closed to commerce regardless of American presence. The administration’s demand for allied participation is a deliberate move to shift the „Free Rider“ tax, as most oil transiting the strait fuels Asian and European economies rather than the U.S. By forcing a „Coalition of the Willing,“ Washington avoids being the sole „janitor“ of the Gulf, gaining political legitimacy and logistical relief while signaling that global energy security is no longer a free service. This multilateral approach ensures that if a foreign tanker is hit, the escalation becomes a confrontation with the global community rather than a bilateral U.S.-Iran conflict, replacing the old „global policeman“ model with a transactional strategy that demands stakeholders secure their own vital interests.

TLDR – it’s not that America couldn’t do it, it’s that America isn’t the prime beneficiary of the Strait, and no longer feels compelled to be the only one paying to keep it open…. even though, admittedly, Trump’s actions closed it.

Ok class, open the sylabus „How to turn things into shit II“, page 437.