{"id":44837,"date":"2026-04-03T03:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44837"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:27:33","slug":"the-opening-of-trumps-box-the-american-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44837","title":{"rendered":"The Opening of Trump\u2019s Box &#8211; The American Prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dayen-Strait-of-Hormuz-040226.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:223px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally changes the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/2026\/04\/02\/opening-of-trumps-box-iran-war-strait-hormuz\/\">The Opening of Trump\u2019s Box &#8211; The American Prospect<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This war has been an elaborate, destructive way to teach Iran a lesson, and unfortunately for the U.S., Israel, and the world, that lesson has been: Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has put a tollgate across the Strait of Hormuz. This fundamentally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[364,33,1102,57,56],"class_list":["post-44837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-tfg","tag-usa","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44840,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44837\/revisions\/44840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}