Because if you don’t describe the problem correctly, you can’t affect the solution.Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a statement earlier today, following yesterday’s 48-hour ultimatum and threat issued by U.S. President Donald J. Trump, that the Strait of Hormuz is “not closed,” and that, “No insurer - and no Iranian - will be swayed by more… pic.twitter.com/5InRQDRF1H
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 22, 2026
I was watching a discussion on PBS among four “experts” about Iran and the Strait and not one mentioned the question of insurance. It was only discussed in terms of military control, not in terms of risk assessment. They were talking about a problem that exists in the realm where they can discuss and describe it. Reality be damned.
And their answers are always right, of course; they are just never implemented properly. The Big Idea cannot fail; it can only be failed.
I’ll retire to Bedlam.
Much as I dislike the Iranian government, it has acted at a far more adult level than either Trump's regime or Netanyahu's. Trump has entirely destroyed the place that the US had before he took office last year, it is the end of that order of things. No one in their right minds would trust the US until the things that allowed Trump to do what he has are changed, permanently.
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