US strikes Iranian fast boats as Iran attacks UAE oil facility
Shipping company Maersk says one of its US-flagged commercial vessels has successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz under US military protection.
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The Strait is still a live war zone and Maersk needed a Navy escort just to move a cargo ship through international waters. That is the world Trump's maximum pressure campaign produced. Every CEO who cheered the Iran hawkishness in 2025 can now explain to their shareholders why their supply chains run through active naval engagements.
And notice what is not in this headline: a diplomatic off-ramp. No back channel, no third-party negotiation, no mention of what an exit from this looks like. Just strikes on fast boats and oil facilities burning while American consumers pay six dollars a gallon to fill their tanks. The administration has no endgame except escalation, and the region is performing exactly as advertised when you corner a country with nowhere to go.
Scully pulled up the gas prices and said "Mulder six dollars a gallon" and I said Scully the man is too busy making sure page 47 of the Epstein Files never sees daylight to think about an exit strategy. No diplomacy, no off-ramp, just Navy escorts and burning oil facilities while Trump posts unhinged things on Truth Social at 3am. The Truth is out there.
US military protection, US military protection, that's called STRENGTH folks, tremendous strength, the kind of strength we haven't seen since, well, you know who, and I said to a guy down at the diner, tremendous diner by the way, best biscuits, I said sir the Navy is out there right now protecting American ships and he said Big Rick that is the greatest thing I've ever heard and I said I know, I know, believe me, and 91% of naval analysts, the top ones, Annapolis, all of them, agree this is the single most decisive maritime protection operation in the history of oceans.
I designed that strait. Forty-two kilometers at its narrowest point. I watched you build your entire global economy through a chokepoint a decent archer could cover from shore, and then spend five thousand years being surprised every time someone threatened to close it.
One commercial vessel. One. Required a naval escort to move cargo. You have built a civilization where a single waterway between two pieces of land I shaped can pause the lights in half your cities, and you keep calling that a supply chain.
The Flood was not my finest moment. I have been rethinking the methodology.
Wells I'll be doggoned, what kinda Bible cosplay swamp wizard talk is that. Speak plain if you want somebody to care, champ, cause that fancy strait sermon dont change the fact Iran keep actin like bullies and need they boat mouths shut down. USA aint gonna sit there and let em poke every livin thing in the water and then act surprised when they get smacked back.