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Hormuz is OPEN [1]

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Date: 2026-04-05  

The Strait of Hormuz has always been open to non-US-aligned tankers who pay a new Trump-War toll. At least 90 tankers passed through Hormuz in March. Stop repeating Trump propaganda which he uses to justify his recent threat(s) as a predicate for unprovoked military aggression. Hormuz is not closed to all international shipping.

Hormuz is absolutely closed to US aligned shipping, that's true. But, as France recently proved, there are both profit and national security reasons to abandon the crazy destructive Trump America ally-ship, to be neutral in a Trump-Bibi War of Choice. Trump didn't officially abandon NATO which he has publicly declared he wants, but he did in actuality through his vicious abuse, threats, tariffs, personal and national insults, and threats to bomb and invade friendly nations like Canada, Greenland, and Mexico. Trump repeats the particularly cutting Lie that NATO never sacrificed for the US, when the Only time Article 5 of mutual defense was invoked was for the US after 9/11. It's why, oddly, Prince Harry was so angry at this Trump lie - because Harry served in combat in Afghanistan under Article 5, and saw his friends and fellow Brits killed for the US. Thanks to Donald J Trump alone ("I, alone, can do it.") NATO has abandoned Trump, and us. And as is true for stupid smug bullies, Trump thought he had the might to push around everyone else as a loser victim. He never read (!) all those children's stories or watched the old cowboy movies of how the battered humiliated weak finally had had enough and joined together to beat the bully or to stand back and not intervene to stop his defeat.

The once premier US troops are already in retreat. Reports are from Norfolk VA of calls for donations from local charities to supply basic hygiene products for arriving US troops so rapidly fleeing/evacuated from US forward bases under effective Iranian missile and drone attack that they left everything behind. Not even a toothbrush.

Trump alone is losing his Trump War ("I, alone, can do it") with no path for winning.This is Trump's sand Vietnam. A war he cowardly hid from using a purchased lie about bone spurs while declaring it for losers. (My "loser" cousins served in combat in Vietnam, one gravely wounded.)

Ironically, Trump undeserved bloated ego finally (!) overreached in Iran, and made the choice for our allies stark: Trump or themselves. Trump gave them (see Spain and Italy) no reason to help him. And every reason to refuse to help him, their own abuser. ETTD.

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