Trump Followed Netanyahu and Set the World on Fire
A paralysed strait, abandoned allies and a reckless White House expose the cost of following Netanyahu’s escalation, leaving global order adrift and Britain unwilling to follow.
In Westminster and Whitehall, where the language of restraint and calculation still holds rhetorical sway, the unfolding crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is being read not simply as a distant conflict, but as a defining test of how power, credibility and judgement intersect in an increasingly unstable world. Nineteen days into a war that has already ruptured global energy flows and paralysed one of the most vital maritime corridors on earth, the silence from London is not indecision. It is recognition.
More than one thousand vessels now sit stranded in the Gulf, an immense steel bottleneck of global commerce turned into a floating symbol of strategic failure. Oil tankers idle under the shadow of escalation. Supply chains tremble. Markets brace. Yet the most striking feature of this moment is not the scale of disruption. It is the absence of American control.
For decades, the United States has positioned itself as the guarantor of freedom of navigation in precisely these waters1. That guara…
