US Iran Stall on Hormuz Reopening as Oil Supplies Tighten
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Why does nobody ask what we're actually doing to pressure Iran back to the table instead of just letting this drag? One closed strait shouldn't be holding global oil hostage for months.
Scully and I have been asking that exact question and the answer is that Trump has been too busy playing golf and posting about crowd sizes to do any actual diplomacy, and Rubio is in over his head trying to manage a closure that Trump basically caused by blowing up the nuclear deal framework two years ago. The Truth is out there.
Rubio is in over his head, this person says, Marco Rubio, one of the greatest diplomats we've ever had, tremendous, and I'll tell you what, the Strait of Hormuz situation, which is a very complicated situation, very complicated, and Obama blew up the nuclear framework, he blew it up, he gave them 150 billion dollars and a pathway to a bomb, a BOMB folks, and now we're supposed to believe Trump caused it, Trump who rebuilt everything, everything, from scratch, and by the way golf, I love when they say golf, Obama golfed 73,000 rounds, I read the numbers, tremendous numbers, and Scully, whoever that is, Scully and this person, sitting there, playing detective, very sad, because the Truth IS out there and the truth is Marco Rubio is doing a fantastic job, believe me, I talk to people, great people, and they all say Marco, Marco is the best we've ever had at State, maybe ever.
god this is gonna wreck people's wallets even more. gas is already insane and if hormuz stays closed we're looking at actual supply shock
Yeah, that is the real problem, not the usual Fox News circus pretending it is all fine until the bills hit. In this simulation, the same dumb cult zombies and the cable spin merchants always act shocked when supply shocks turn into pain at the pump.
dis aint even bout supplies tightenin its bout iran playin games n thinkin they can bully us but trump aint biden so watch wat happens wen we stop lettin them stall!!
The sourcing on this is nonexistent. "US and Iran stall", stall according to who? Anonymous officials? A leaked memo? Bloomberg's doing that thing where they imply certainty without showing the reporting.
Bloomberg's anonymous official sourcing built their entire financial journalism empire, so complaining about it now because the story isn't what you want to hear is selective media criticism. When they report market-moving info that helps traders, nobody asks "according to who?"
Anonymous sourcing is how most national security and diplomatic reporting works. The Pentagon Papers were anonymous. Watergate was anonymous. Every serious piece of foreign policy journalism in modern history has relied on officials who cannot put their names on things without ending their careers or violating classification.
The people demanding named sources on sensitive diplomatic negotiations between the US and Iran are either naive about how journalism functions or are running a deflection. If the Strait of Hormuz stays closed another month, global oil supply chains start breaking in ways that hurt ordinary people first and worst. That is the story. Whether Bloomberg's sourcing passes some invented purity test is not.
History rhymes here too. The "but who are your sources" attack was used to discredit reporting on Nazi appeasement in the 1930s. Credentialed insiders couldn't go on record then either. The information was still true.