This is extracted from an article by Lindsay Beyerstein.
"The blockade is causing Iran major economic pain, but this is an existential fight for the regime. They know that if they can just outlast Trump, they can come out of this conflict with a huge influx of cash and strategic preeminence in the Middle East.
Trump has spent a lifetime rebelling against reality. In the Strait of Hormuz, he has finally run up against a reality too stark to spin or ignore. The strait was free and open before Trump attacked. Now it is closed and Iran has set up a permanent mechanism to extract rents from passersby. It’s tempting to think that all of Trump’s terrible policies can be reversed, but some blunders are unfixable. In all likelihood, this conflict will end with Iran charging tolls on the Strait of Hormuz and reaping billions of dollars in windfall profits that will be plowed back into its military and its nuclear program."
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That accomplishment will pair nicely with the imminent treaty that donnie will sign ceding Taiwan to China.
The treaty will sound really good - like the one the British signed ceding Hong Kong - but the result will be the same.
Add those two accomplishments to donnie's trade war and he has his hat trick.
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