In about two days, there will be reports of massive volume of shorts on oil company stocks that occurred in the minutes before the announcement, then another day after that, nobody will talk about it again.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2026
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This is good for oil stocks/oil prices going much higher... until TACO.
From mediocre incompetents to outright villains.
Are they also going to block the ships that Iran and Japan agreed could pass through, for example? Are they really going to screw over a strategic ally like Japan just for...? You know what? Yeah, they definitely would.
maybe Japan shouldn't have surprise attacked them on december 1941.
That didn't stop both countries from being allies for several decades, why would you bring that up now?
Japan asked trump why didn't you tell us, your allies that you were going to do this to iran?
He said you didn't tell me about pearl harbor before you struck why would I tell you guys before I did this?
And then all the asshole psychopaths in trumps press room laughed at Japan.
Implying that Japan was actually the US's enemy.
"You're not blocking the strait of Hormuz, I am. I dont even want your strait, anyways"
It's literally high school bully level of pettiness and stupidity. And because it's on a global scale, everyone suffers. smh.
So now instead of zero blockades like we had two months ago, we have two blockades?
2 is better than 0 as 0 is for losers. /s
I hate these Maga Yanks so much.
American here. As do I.
He’s playing the stock market again
I'm a little surprised everyone is mostly agreeing that he's doing this because he's stupid. I mean yes, he's a fucking idiot, but someone told him to start a blockade. And as we all know from the first one a week ago, it's only gonna jack up prices on literally everything even more than they are right now.
It's all a plan by the billionaire class that openly runs our country now to keep inflating prices so consumers don't have anything.
Edit: like c/BamboodPanda said, "Oil determines the price of shipping. Shipping determines the price of everything. They want to jack up everything."
Its mostly to jack up oil.
Trump is owned by Rosneft and OPEC
Oil determines the price of shipping. Shipping determines the price of everything. They want to jack up everything.
They loved the prices they found gouge after the pandemic and want to see how far they can push society.
100% this. He didn't come up with a solution to "open the strait!" as "don't use the strait!" So it's still closed? Because of feels? OK, but it being closed because you said so means it's still fucking closed.
Who benefits from this long term? Other than just "people who just bought oil at $98 on Monday"?
My theory is Lumpty Trumpty and the other looters are going to let the price of oil go up before announcing some sort of deal or removal of the blockade. Oil prices start to come down.
Anyone in on the looting gets to rake in the short bets on oil. It's the opposite of a pump and dump scheme.
He just wanted a cut from Iran's tolls
Can't wait for the USN to start blowing up Chinese tankers and cargo ships.
Or seizing SK and Japanese vessels for that matter.
Are we going to prevent our most Asian important allies from receiving energy supplies that could prevent, or at least significantly delay, their complete economic collapse?
Lol so let me get this straight. We went from a completely open and free strait, to a closed one, to one ran and toll, to a double blocked strait. We are up 200% blockage. Art of the deal.
Also Trump is going to starve out all of the middle east and Asia? He'll be tacoing here soon. Otherwise WW3 is guaranteed because China and Russia are preparing to have their forces escort their materials through because Iran doesn't have beef with them.
Oh, sure, this will bring down gas prices.
Snip snap snip snap
This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!
(Remember Iran says they have the strait closed as well.)
When a mother blockade and a father blockade love each other very much...
So Iran is Naboo
Owah brockade is a-perfectry regrow
A communications disruption can only mean one thing...
Invasion?
He saw then charging a toll and wanted to also charge a toll.
Lame-ass copycats.
So let me get this straight... Of Hormuz.
Terrible pun.
Blocked
I'd hope global reaction will be anger against US. If Israel had paused its genocide of Lebanon, 20 ships/day would have flowed out of SoH. Now it will be 0. Trump just threated NATO and other allied flag ships.
Way out is for world to negotiate with Iran to pay equivalent revenue to tolls in order to have SoH fully open. World paying instead of US/Israel, if world is too timid to show anger to US.
I'd like to see the yanks threaten Spanish or other Nato ally ships, lol, that's an automatic article 5. Furthermore, TACO doesn't have the balls or the means to block Chinese chips.
My dream now is some dumbass yank soldier fucks up and starts a war between China and the US. It would be beautiful to see the superiority complex of the yanks faced with the realities of a more advanced twice as large country.
Nah, I don't want to see two nuclear powers directly fight.
So now they went from the bad guy to the worse guy in this conflict. Because of course
I wonder if NATO will interfere now, and start an invasion against THE USA.
Lmao.
But why would they need to since according to the very true reports by CENTCOM their destroyers passed the Straight and back unchallenged.