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He launched the largest carrier bombing offensive in naval history against the Houthis in Yemen and pirates in Somalia.
He cut the steady flow of cash from USAID and Minnesota to Somali warlords.
He demanded (and, yes, failed) to end the Russia-Ukraine war to reopen the Bosporus to ships.
He sent @PeteHegseth and @SecRubio to secure the Navy’s most important chokepoint: Panama.
He dialed back rhetoric with China to keep goods flowing through the Taiwan Strait while improving security of the Luzon Strait.
He got an icebreaker deal signed to secure the Bering Strait.
He pushed back HARD on the UN @IMOHQ carbon tax that would have eliminated fueling options at chokepoints.
He closed the GIUK gap by playing hardball with Denmark over Greenland.
He put the Indonesian President front and center at Davos and, just last week, made a huge tariff deal to secure the Malacca Strait.
Now he’s laser-focused on the most important energy chokepoint in the world: the Strait of Hormuz.
In a world of geopolitical crisis, chokepoints are king and Trump is the only leader on earth treating them like the strategic real estate they are.
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Michael McNair @michaeljmcnair
The US and China are now competing over control of chokepoints ahead of a conflict both sides increasingly see as inevitable.
China spent a decade building leverage over critical supply chain choke points essential to the US industrial base. Now the Gulf War has handed Washington leverage over the energy and supply chain arteries critical to China’s industrial base.
Hormuz matters far more to China than it does to the United States. But if the US Navy is now responsible for safely escorting ships and the DFC has a monopoly backstopping war risk insurance, then Washington becomes the gatekeeper of security at the world’s most important energy chokepoint.