You can’t make this shit up. Now the United States is closing the Strait of Hormuz?

Rule 10 Submission Statement: In the span of one week Donald Trump went from "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell" (April 5, 2026) to "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz."

Regarding the "most points were agreed to" – He is lying. Full stop. Nothing was agreed to; and now he is lashing out, again, because he doesn't know what else to do. The "negotiations" fell apart because Iran wasn't actually there to negotiate. They have absolutely nothing to gain from letting the war end at this phase, without some sort of way to ensure it doesn't just reset and start again, in six months.

Iran was there to show the world that mighty United States could be brought to talks, short of Trump's previous demand "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" (March 6, 2026) and to present their 10-Point demands, which essentially amounts to the surrender of the United States. There was effectively no chance of anything coming out of this.

What is going on, that has Trump so panicked, is that the United States own allies have been going behind the United States back, to talk to Iran directly, to make arrangements with Iran to secure safe passage for their ships to come in, fill up, and then sail out. This is a serious problem for Trump because US and Israeli flagged ships are still prohibited from entering, so the pressure is beginning to mount on the United States, instead of Iran.

It has been a long standing principle of law, that the United States and it's Navy care deeply about, that it retains "freedom of navigation" in which no soveign state will tell the United States which international waterways it can or cannot sail. It would be a monumental shift in US-foreign policy for them to allow Iran to dictate who can and cannot access the Strait of Hormuz. So this is actually about much more than just whether or not the United States receives oil from the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump needs the world to feel enough pain that they will join a coalition to come in and help deal with the problem that Trump and Netanyahu started; yet countries who can work out their own energy deals directly with Iran are not likely to sign on for that. Instead, they're likely to say "you started it, figure it out". So now the United States is, in an act of absolute desperation, going to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, so that nobody gets energy from that waterway.

This is yet another massive miscalculation…as if the world didn't need more reasons to be sore at the United States and Israel for starting a war that has taken the global energy markets on a roller coast for the past six weeks, now they're going to take the Strait of Hormuz hostage, themselves. It can't be forgotten that the Strait of Hormuz was open before all of this started.

It certainly appears that the principle objective of the Trump/Netanyahu war of choice, as of right now, is to essentially return to the pre-war status quo of the Strait of Hormuz being open. Victory…is getting back to where you started?

Tl;dr; this is another massive unforced error that does little to help the United States PR problem with the rest of the world. Iran is clearly winning the PR front of this war.