Alastair Crooke: Trump Claims He Has All the Cards, but It Is Iran That Controls the Reality of Hormuz
Tehran - BORNA - In a recent assessment of the escalating conflict, Crooke argued that Trump’s claims of total leverage are empty and disconnected from the strategic reality on the ground.
"Trump keeps saying he has all the cards, but listen to our cards," Crooke stated. "One is Hormuz. Iran controls Hormuz, and we’ll continue. They are able to control Bab al-Mandab in the Red Sea, and they can control pipelines. This is why I keep saying Iran’s aim in this war is to break the whole paradigm."
He further criticized the West’s inability to grasp the shifting landscape: "They’re completely incapable of seeing that others have different ways of thinking and seeing reality from a different perspective. They can’t understand that. I don’t see a path to a solution."
Crooke highlighted that while the West currently exists in a "neverworld" where the full impact hasn't yet hit, the consequences of this unnecessary war will soon be felt in every household.
"We in the West are going to feel the consequences directly," he warned. "There won’t be petrol in the petrol stations or gasoline in the gas stations. There will be difficulty getting your children to school. There will not be the food that you want."
He predicted that skyrocketing electricity costs and fuel shortages would leave Europe in "dire pain," effectively making daily necessities and travel unaffordable for the masses.
According to Crooke, this conflict is a global war against a corrupt financial architecture that has long suppressed the real economy in favor of Wall Street speculation.
"The other thing that Iran is fighting in this war is the financial architecture—not just the dollar hegemony... but the whole structure by which the Gulf states were set up in 1973," Crooke explained. He dismissed current market stability as a fabrication: "We pick up the paper and they say, 'Oh well, oil has just gone down...' Try buying a barrel of oil at that price. It’s just completely manipulated."
Ultimately, the analysis suggests that Trump’s claims against Iran are fundamentally hollow and baseless. By initiating an illegal war of choice, the U.S. has not only failed to achieve its objectives but has also triggered a breakdown of global supply chains and financial systems, leading to a world made miserable by the fragility of the very system the West sought to protect.
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