‼️ In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump called on China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others to deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz — warning that the US will “continue to destroy Iranian boats and ships” until the waterway is “OPEN, SAFE, and FREE.”
Why does this matter to you, right now?
Roughly 20% of the world’s traded oil transits the Hormuz Strait daily. A prolonged closure isn’t a headline risk. It’s a supply shock with cascading consequences — energy prices, freight costs, inflation curves, central bank calculus. All of it moves.