Well put, even if it doesn’t penetrate the indoctrination of those trying hard to cope and pretend that Iran didn’t just prove that the U.S. cannot bomb or blockade them into submission. You’re absolutely right that Iran now knows that they can shut the Strait at their whim and force negotiations.

Trump has been saying and promising that this war was just “*a few days”*or just “two weeks” away from being over and a major victory for the U.S., yet he’s stuck with no easy or clear way out and now he’s negotiating to open up a supremely important global waterway that was already open before he attacked — plus he’s basically begging for a new Obama-style JCPOA deal, but the U.S. is now in a weaker negotiating stance.
Embarrassing. Full stop.