Moon of Alabama
April 2, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to give up on the Persian Gulf passage:
Trump Tells Aides He's Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz (archived) - WSJ
In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran's navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade.