Is the regime in Iran soon to be toast?
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Iran war was perfect to prove NATO is garbage post USSR.
Europe: Not our war, fuck off
USA: Didn't ask you to bomb Iran, just asked to flyover your territory. WW1 and WW2 Europe was not our war. We are footing near 2/3 NATO bill. We can get fucked for a lot less $.
Argentina: perfect time to grab Falkland Islands. Help yourself.
Time for USA to negotiate agreements with individual countries. Maybe Eastern Europe deserves inclusion in a new alliance
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Europe: Not our war, fuck off
USA: Didn't ask you to bomb Iran, just asked to flyover your territory. WW1 and WW2 Europe was not our war. We are footing near 2/3 NATO bill. We can get fucked for a lot less $.
Argentina: perfect time to grab Falkland Islands. Help yourself.
Time for USA to negotiate agreements with individual countries. Maybe Eastern Europe deserves inclusion in a new alliance
Trump ‘absolutely’ considering NATO exit — will rip Europe in primetime remarks
“Wouldn’t you do that if you were me?” Trump said to Reuters reporter Steve Holland in an interview, when asked if he was weighing leaving the transatlantic alliance.
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mat200
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Here’s Why Trump is in No Rush to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz | John Konrad
Hidden Forces
Apr 1, 2026 Full Episodes • Hidden Forces Podcast
In Episode 473 of Hidden Forces, IDemetri Kofinas speaks with Captain John Konrad — founder of gCaptain, the world’s most-visited maritime and offshore news website, and one of the most influential voices in commercial shipping — about what Konrad calls the Hormuz Hypothesis: a framework for understanding how the Trump administration has assembled the tools to exploit the disruption of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a broader maritime strategy and political endgame that very few in the media are discussing.
The first hour lays the groundwork for that hypothesis, examining the decades-long decline of the US merchant marine and shipbuilding industrial base, why control of global maritime choke points is inseparable from national security and the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, and how the collapse of the war risk reinsurance market following the outbreak of conflict created an acute insurance crisis for vessels transiting the Persian Gulf. They also discuss how the Trump administration responded by creating a government-backed reinsurance facility through the US International Development Finance Corporation, in coordination with the Treasury and US Central Command, and why this matters for understanding how the global economy is being reorganized — away from free trade and open capital markets, and toward one increasingly shaped by national interests, clandestine statecraft, and great power competition operating below the threshold of open military conflict.
The second hour turns to the strategic logic of the Hormuz Hypothesis itself — specifically, why Konrad believes the Trump administration is in no rush to reopen the Strait and how it intends to use control over that choke point as leverage to extract concessions from Europe, China, and other actors in the international system. They examine what some of those concessions may look like, the concrete outcomes the administration is pursuing through its maritime agenda — including basing agreements, shipbuilding reform, and pushback against Chinese and UN encroachment on the global maritime order — and the cumulative fragility of the global trading network, including what a worst-case breakdown of that system could look like and what winning might realistically mean for the United States in both the short and long term.
Hidden Forces
Apr 1, 2026 Full Episodes • Hidden Forces Podcast
In Episode 473 of Hidden Forces, IDemetri Kofinas speaks with Captain John Konrad — founder of gCaptain, the world’s most-visited maritime and offshore news website, and one of the most influential voices in commercial shipping — about what Konrad calls the Hormuz Hypothesis: a framework for understanding how the Trump administration has assembled the tools to exploit the disruption of commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a broader maritime strategy and political endgame that very few in the media are discussing.
The first hour lays the groundwork for that hypothesis, examining the decades-long decline of the US merchant marine and shipbuilding industrial base, why control of global maritime choke points is inseparable from national security and the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, and how the collapse of the war risk reinsurance market following the outbreak of conflict created an acute insurance crisis for vessels transiting the Persian Gulf. They also discuss how the Trump administration responded by creating a government-backed reinsurance facility through the US International Development Finance Corporation, in coordination with the Treasury and US Central Command, and why this matters for understanding how the global economy is being reorganized — away from free trade and open capital markets, and toward one increasingly shaped by national interests, clandestine statecraft, and great power competition operating below the threshold of open military conflict.
The second hour turns to the strategic logic of the Hormuz Hypothesis itself — specifically, why Konrad believes the Trump administration is in no rush to reopen the Strait and how it intends to use control over that choke point as leverage to extract concessions from Europe, China, and other actors in the international system. They examine what some of those concessions may look like, the concrete outcomes the administration is pursuing through its maritime agenda — including basing agreements, shipbuilding reform, and pushback against Chinese and UN encroachment on the global maritime order — and the cumulative fragility of the global trading network, including what a worst-case breakdown of that system could look like and what winning might realistically mean for the United States in both the short and long term.
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Iran war was perfect to prove NATO is garbage post USSR.
Europe: Not our war, fuck off
USA: Didn't ask you to bomb Iran, just asked to flyover your territory. WW1 and WW2 Europe was not our war. We are footing near 2/3 NATO bill. We can get fucked for a lot less $.
Argentina: perfect time to grab Falkland Islands. Help yourself.
Time for USA to negotiate agreements with individual countries. Maybe Eastern Europe deserves inclusion in a new alliance
Trump ‘absolutely’ considering NATO exit — will rip Europe in primetime remarks
“Wouldn’t you do that if you were me?” Trump said to Reuters reporter Steve Holland in an interview, when asked if he was weighing leaving the transatlantic alliance.
European Nations got hit hard by this war that Donald and Israel started .. they're not happy, and some are expressing it in ways that clearly make some Trump supporters upset.
Most know Trump's actions will result in more terrorism, USA is far better protected than the European Nations.
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USA will have to do something to defeat the Iranian Regime and the Houthis, they both can constrict or control 2 key choke points
Welp, their issue should be with Iran not the USA. We haven't bombed them. Guess they would rather have a nuclear missile lobed by Iran to their capitals in 5 years or so and not to mention the games with passage of ships in the Strait with fees. Simon says do what Ayatollah terrorist says or else.
Winner: Russia
Loser: NATO
And we are not ready to stop bombing yet.
Kind of weird that some people think Iran should have waved the white flag after 30 days. Iran's military is ranked right after Ukraine. How's Russia's 30 day war with Ukraine going? Oh, and Russia hasn't had to move assets half way around the world.
www.businessinsider.com
Kind of weird that some people think Iran should have waved the white flag after 30 days. Iran's military is ranked right after Ukraine. How's Russia's 30 day war with Ukraine going? Oh, and Russia hasn't had to move assets half way around the world.
The 35 Most Powerful Militaries In The World
Some of the rankings are surprising.
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