by Andrea Widburg
We can do—our military has planned for it—yet Trump hasn’t acted. One man thinks he knows why, and it shows Trump as a strategic genius unlike any other.
One of the things that’s been obvious, given the U.S. and Israeli militaries’ extraordinary skill and equipment, is that, if they wish to, they can secure the Strait of Hormuz...yet they haven’t. Leftists claim that’s because it never occurred to Trump that the Iranians would try to use the Strait as leverage. That’s patently ridiculous, unless you accept their core premise that Trump has a low two-digit IQ. So, what gives?
One man, James E. Thorne, a Ph.D. in economics and the Chief Market Strategist at Wellington Altus, a Canadian wealth management organization, thinks he has the answer. His tweet, regrettably, has pompous academic language with a smattering of leftist vocabulary (I hate academese, and the Hegelian language that Marxism adopted), but, when I plowed through it, my reaction was the same one Charlie Brown had when Lucy had an insight:
Yup! That’s it. Trump isn’t stupid. He’s scary smart, and he’s exposing exactly how things lie in the real world, not in the world as Europeans, Brits, and other leftists wish it would be.
Here’s the tweet, which I’ve followed with my simplistic rendering of Thorne’s astute, but jargony analysis:
Food for thought.
— James E. Thorne (@DrJStrategy) April 3, 2026
Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride
For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with… pic.twitter.com/rNeraxQLpx
So, what I think he’s saying:
Everyone has known for 50 years that the Strait of Hormuz is the pivot in a conflict with Iran. However, Trump isn’t rushing to deal with it because he’s using it to force the West to face reality.
Under the old theory, the world assumed the US would guarantee that oil would continue flowing through the Strait. Accordingly, the world organized its infrastructure around that assumption. No one questioned it, accepting that it was as fixed as the sun rising in the East.
Trump, however, is proving that assumption to be false. He wants the EU and the UK to understand what the world is like when they can neither rely on the US nor kick it around when it comes to their energy supplies.
And indeed, Trump has been forthright: You need the oil, so you take care of the problem.
By putting this kind of maximum pressure on the EU and the UK, Trump is forcing a new reality on them. Here’s how Thorne sums it up:
The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure, or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard.
As I said, “That’s it.” Trump may speak like someone who flies by the seat of his pants, but his current actions show someone playing 5-D chess while everyone else is still focused on Candy Land.
Within a year, he’s shrunk the federal government to its smallest since 1966, revitalized our military, closed our border, tamed inflation, increased job growth, rid our country of millions of illegal aliens, tamed Venezuela, reduced Cuba to nothing, gotten the Panama Canal out from under Chinese control (which, with the end of Venezuela’s dictatorship and Cuba’s seemingly imminent collapse, removes China as a player in this region), and is close to ending Iran’s 47 year reign of terror, a reign carried out through funding terrorism and controlling the world’s oil spigot. Men with two-digit IQs don’t do all that.
I don’t believe Trump should go on Mount Rushmore. I believe Trump deserves his face on a mountain dedicated entirely to him.
Andrea Widburg
Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/trump_s_passivity_on_the_strait_of_hormuz_shows_his_genius.html
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