Trump is one of the careless people who break things and then depart leaving others to clear up the mess- a perspective from the Great Gatsby.
Except as he has found it with the Strait of Hormuz reality doesn’t always work like a game show.
In fact as Martin Wolf (FT) notes the reality echoes the advice Colin Powell gave to an earlier US President on Iraq.
Martin Wolf is sanguine about the current status of Trump’s actions
‘In the case of this Iran War..there is near universal agreement, that it all comes down to who controls the Strait of Hormuz’
Ray Dallo, Bridgewater
At the moment Iran does. So as long as this is true its winning.
Martin Wolf, FT 18th March 2026
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