Who is the Fool?
Only fools. Let’s pause for a moment—because the man who bankrupted casinos, the sovereign marvel of controlled incompetence, the golden-toilet-philosopher-king of Mar-a-Lago, has decided that the working people of America, filling their tanks at $3.41 a gallon and rising rapidly—forty-three cents in a single week, the largest weekly increase in crude oil prices since records began in 1983—should consider themselves lucky. Blessed, even. You’re paying for world peace, idiot. You’re funding security, idiot. Now shut up, get back in your truck, swipe your card, and be thankful that the genius at Truth Social figured it all out.
Qatar’s energy minister—not a resistance blogger, not a Berkeley professor, but the man who controls one of the planet’s largest LNG pipelines—looked at what Trump has done to the Strait of Hormuz and bluntly said that oil at $150 a barrel could bring down the world’s economies. The Dow plummeted 900 points the day Trump demanded Iran’s unconditional surrender. Goldman Sachs issued warnings. The Fed now faces stagflation—rising prices, falling employment; 92,000 jobs disappeared last month alone. But yeah. Tell us about the fools again, writes Islander .
This was never about a nuclear weapons program, and anyone who’s watched twenty minutes of American foreign policy in the past thirty years knows that. The Strait of Hormuz carries a fifth of the world’s oil. Whoever dominates the Persian Gulf dominates the arteries of the global economy—Chinese imports, Indian refining, Japanese industry, South Korean production—all flow or die through those narrow waters. That’s the card that matters. That’s what’s really at stake—not some bomb Iran didn’t have, but the age-old imperial urge to put a boot on the throat of Eurasia’s energy backbone and call it liberation. But the markets are coolly revealing the folly of these warmongers.
And the man with the pen in hand—the self-proclaimed dealmaker, the closer, the genius—has the audacity to call those who see him fools. History will have a different name for him.