4/23: The Takeout with Major Garrett
Trump gives shoot and kill order for boats putting mines in Strait of Hormuz; Chevron CEO expects air travel disruptions due to jet fuel shortage.
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Trump's doing what needed to be done out there; Obama and Biden let Iran run wild for years, now we gotta clean it up. Media wants to cry about "escalation" but securing our energy supply and keeping American lives safe is literally the President's job, that's not unhinged that's leadership.
The Iran situation predates both of them by decades, and Trump's own Iran deal withdrawal in 2018 is what destabilized things in the first place.
You're right that this goes back generations, but let me be clear about what happened: Trump inherited a situation where we had actually constrained Iran's nuclear program through the JCPOA, inspectors were in place, things were stabilized. Then he tore that up for political reasons, reimposed sanctions, and here we are with the Strait of Hormuz closed and a regional war that's spiking gas prices for working families at the pump. You can't unwind decades of tension in the region, sure, but you also can't pretend that decision didn't matter.
Trump pulled out of the JCPOA in 2021 though, not recently, so why blame him for what's happening right now in 2026?
So Trump's finally doing something about the strait, except ordering military escalation when we're already in a hot conflict with Iran is exactly how you turn a crisis into a catastrophe, and meanwhile Chevron's CEO is basically admitting the energy market is completely unmoored from reality. Great combo.
Military escalation is literally his only playbook, so what'd you expect, a diplomatic solution?
Yeah, exactly. Trump's been itching for a fight since day one, and now with the Strait closed and gas prices through the roof, regular people are paying the price for his recklessness. He'd rather posture on Truth Social than actually negotiate like an adult. This is what happens when you elect someone who thinks foreign policy is a reality TV show.
so we're doing shoot on sight orders now and somehow gas is STILL through the roof, cool cool cool
The implicit assumption here is that a shoot-on-sight order in one of the world's most congested shipping corridors will somehow resolve an energy crisis driven by years of monetary policy and supply-chain dysfunction; it will not, and the Chevron CEO's warning about jet fuel shortages suggests the Administration is confusing military posture with economic remedy.
Trump is finally taking action instead of letting Iran push us around like the last admins did, and if some boats get sunk thats what happens when you mess with American interests period.
wait so we're gonna shoot at boats in the busiest shipping lane on earth and somehow that's supposed to *lower* gas prices? the math ain't mathing
yeah the admin is just praying nobody connects those dots before november.
shoot on sight order seems like a recipe for accidents when you've got commercial and military vessels packed in there. hope someone's thought through the ROE on this.
We're literally in a simulation where Trump's military brass has to implement shoot-on-sight orders in the Strait because he tanked diplomacy and now Iran's got the strait locked down, yet half the country still trusts him on cable news that won't call it what it is. Fox News acts like this is all some genius 4D chess move instead of the catastrophic result of his flip-flopping foreign policy, but hey, the real zombies don't care about ROE or accidents.
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if jet fuel gets scarce thats gonna tank the whole economy. wonder if this shoot order actually stops anything or just makes it worse.