We probably all could have saved a lot of time, yeah? In the last week, only a small handful of ships have crossed the strait, possibly having paid the $2 million toll that Iran has been threatening to levy. Because rest assured, Trump barely seems cognizant of what is even going on in this war. If anything, the Iranian regime may in fact be more radical now than it was before the start of the war. What little chance there was to end the Iran War seems to have passed us by this weekend, with Trump instead committing both himself and our country to more global economic chaos for the foreseeable future.

Source: The Guardian April 12, 2026 20:07 UTC