Trump Blockade of Strait of Hormuz Begins

April 13, 2026 Hunter Wallace Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Iran, War, World 21

Poor JD.

Trump has destroyed his political future.

New York Times:

“Vice President JD Vance’s failure to win the concessions the United States sought from Iran in a single, marathon negotiating session over its nuclear program was no surprise.

But what now? …”

AP:

“CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the American military had begun a blockade of Iranian ports as part of his effort to force Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz and accept a deal to end the war that has raged for more than six weeks.

Iran responded with threats on all ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, taking aim at U.S.-allied countries.

That set the stage for an extraordinary showdown that posed serious risks for the global economy and raised the specter that the ceasefire could collapse and the war could resume. …”

Viktor Orbán also went down in Hungary over the weekend. Ziopopulism is collapsing all over the world. Trump’s stupid war with Iran for Israel is a disaster for the Right.

21 Comments

  1. An American replied to me today as follows:
    “We should welcome Ukrainian refugees too.”

    My reaction was as follows:

    That is precisely the mistake made by so-called white Anglo-American nationalists. They seriously believe that Eastern Europeans—the product of a century of communist mismanagement—will fit seamlessly into your society simply because they have light-skinned faces.

    I can tell you first hand that even that can backfire on you if your government imposes it on you against your will. None of them are part of your homeland, and none of them will treat it as their own.

    The North-Western European mindset, often described as Germanic, is indeed clearly recognizable. It has made us who we are. We don’t dare say this because we now have to save “all of Europe.” But it is and remains an eternal truth.

    In other words: Scandinavia, Benelux, Anglosphere, German-speaking regions are fully compatible and can be easily combined. The rest remains a challenge both racially and socially (to put it mildly).

    “The Baltic countries should be integrated as well!” They’ll be our problem children, but we’ll bring them on board. Not just because of their blue-eyed, blond-haired appearance, but because they’ve shown fierce resistance to communism. Plus, they’re strongly influenced by German culture.

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  2. “Trump has destroyed his political future.”

    What future ?
    He can’t run for another term.
    His only objective now is to gratify his Jewish masters and whatever tasks they assign to him.

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  3. Not exactly on topic, but not far from it, reporter Max Blumenthal says that Susie Wiles, Trump’s Chief of Staff, previously worked on Netanyahoos campaign in Israel. What a surprise, not.

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  4. Brit and American puzzling over meaning of
    Faust. I can’t help them, it’s self-explanatory
    (way quite different from what they think!).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZj_p-I3hoQ

    These nice Anglo-Americans are poking in the fog
    not for linguistic reasons, but for conceptual ones!

    They are reading into their own history something
    that never existed there! It may seem all too pitiful
    to us, but for them it is a matter of “life and death.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BF1HKeB3ak

    Mr. Sugrue, sadly passed away too soon, came quite
    close to the truth, yet still missed it by a wide margin.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YC9zhIKMA
    .

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  5. It should be noted I recommended this course of action awhile ago. Rasmussen Reports put out a poll today showing Trump’s support has gone up back to 47% from where it was last month. This blockade obviously found favor with the wider public. Polls of course change. Which is they shouldn’t be used to conduct policy on existential cases or be the barometer for success on new policy until well after they are implemented. Bush had huge support following his Mission Success tour following the Iraq invasion. Which points more to the fickleness of poll driven policy than their veracity of approval.

    People like success. Policies that seem hard to implement, receive backlash immediately, and are then poll sampled will often show negativiy. Afterwards, if the policy is successful, the polls switch. Polls during the June bombing were negative. By December they had switched and showed a positive support. Likewise, expanding the Iran campaign this Feb was immediately greeted with negativity. Things are now switching positively. Ultimately, if people determine the current campaign is a success by Sept, it will lock in to a net positive for the GOP in the Nov elections. Right now, polls are worthless to determine if this expanded conflict policy is supported by the public because it hasn’t even been finished yet.

    This blockade was a long time coming. It didn’t happen originally because of military requirements. Frankly, the isolationist right such as yourself and the Anti-Americsm Left have successfully gutted American military power and left us with less military power than before thereby requiring a more sequential execution of military straregy. In turn, the blockade had to wait until other military priorities were obtained and negotiation objectives reaches their end point. The later has been completed so now military priorities are switching to carry out the policy of blockading Iran has I earlier championed. We shall see how successful it is, which in turn will show up in polls later. Until the US more fully mobilized and spends more and better on military, operations will remain dicey.

    P.S. You obviously opposed making immigration as the single issue to keep the right united. Foreign policy is more important to you than immigration policy. Shiiteing on Duh, Jews, and Israel, letting Iran have nukes, and abandoning the Middle East is more important to you than hard mass deportation, securing the border, and remigration. So you’ve left the coalition over us bombing dumb death cult Sand N@ggers and destroying their nuclear ambitions. I wouldn’t be too celebratory or Trump’s imminent defeat for deciding otherwise.

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  6. It should be noted I recommended this course of action awhile ago. Rasmussen Reports put out a poll today showing Trump’s support has gone up back to 47% from where it was last month. This blockade obviously found favor with the wider public. Polls of course change. Which is why they shouldn’t be used to conduct policy on existential cases or be the barometer for success on new policy until well after they are implemented. Bush had huge support following his Mission Success tour following the Iraq invasion. Which points more to the fickleness of poll driven policy than their veracity of approval.

    People like success. Policies that seem hard to the public to implement and receive backlash immediately from other parts of the public, and are then poll sampled will often show negativiy. Afterwards, if the policy is successful, the polls switch. Polls during the June bombing were negative. By December they had switched and showed a positive support. Likewise, expanding the Iran campaign this Feb was immediately greeted with negativity. Things are now switching positively as the step by step implementation of this conflict with Iran is executed. Ultimately, if people determine the current campaign is a success by Sept, it will lock in to a net positive for the GOP in the Nov elections. Right now, polls are worthless to determine if this expanded conflict policy is supported by the public because it hasn’t even been finished yet.

    This blockade was a long time coming. It didn’t happen originally because of military requirements. Frankly, the isolationist right such as yourself, and the Anti-Americsm Left have successfully gutted American military power and left us with less military power than before thereby requiring a more sequential execution of military straregy. In turn, the blockade had to wait until other military priorities were obtained and negotiation objectives reached their end point. The later have been completed so now military priorities are switching to carry out the policy of blockading Iran has I earlier championed. We shall see how successful it is, which in turn will show up in polls later. Until the US more fully mobilized and spends more and better on the military, preferably 6% of GDP, operations will remain dicey and polls will reflect that insecurity.

    P.S. You obviously opposed making immigration as the single issue to keep the right united. Foreign policy is more important to you than immigration policy. Shiiteing on Duh, Jews, and Israel, letting Iran have nukes, and abandoning the Middle East is more important to you than hard mass deportation, securing the border, and remigration. So you’ve left the coalition over us bombing dumb death cult Sand N@ggers and destroying their nuclear ambitions. I wouldn’t be too celebratory or Trump’s imminent defeat for deciding otherwise.

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  7. AI parody generated below:

    Dead Man’s Strait

    (A parody of Jan & Dean’s “Dead Man’s Curve” – sing it to the exact same tune, same doo-wop energy, same surf-rock bounce… just swap the hot rods for warships and the LA streets for a deadly narrow strait. Two rival fleets, two competing blockades, one accelerating catastrophe.)

    [Verse 1]

    I was cruisin’ in my task force late one night
    When a rival blockade pulled up on the right
    They hailed on the radio from their shiny new flagship
    And challenged me then and there to a blockade
    I said, “You’re on, buddy, my guns are runnin’ fine
    Let’s come off the line now at the entry line
    But I’ll go you one better if you’ve got the nerve
    Let’s race all the way to Dead Man’s Strait!”

    [Chorus]

    (Dead Man’s Strait, it’s no place to play)
    Dead Man’s Strait (Dead Man’s Strait, you best keep away)
    Dead Man’s Strait (Dead Man’s Strait, I can hear ’em say)
    Won’t come back from Dead Man’s Strait

    [Verse 2]

    The sea was deserted late Friday night
    We were buggin’ each other while we held the line tight
    We both went full throttle when the order came green
    You should’ve heard the roar from our screamin’ machines
    I flew past the markers, the shoals, and the lights
    And all their fleet could see were my stern lights
    They passed me at the choke point, then I started to swerve
    But I pulled her out and there we were at Dead Man’s Strait!

    [Chorus]

    (Dead Man’s Strait, it’s no place to play)
    Dead Man’s Strait (Dead Man’s Strait)

    [Spoken (over the dramatic slowdown)]

    Well, the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve
    And then I saw their fleet slide into the strait
    I know I’ll never forget that horrible sight
    The torpedoes were streakin’ and the mines took their bite
    The hulls started explodin’, the oil turned to fire
    Sailors in the water screamin’ for their lives
    Both our blockades collidin’ in the narrowest place
    Acceleratin’ straight into the end of days
    I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right…

    [Final Chorus – big, desperate, fading out]

    Won’t come back from Dead Man’s Strait
    Dead Man’s Strait (it’s no place to play)
    Dead Man’s Strait (you best keep away)
    Dead Man’s Strait (I can hear ’em say)
    Won’t come back from Dead Man’s Strait…

    (fade with crashing waves and distant sirens)

    There it is — pure 1960s drag-racing melodrama, now with competing blockades, narrow-channel nightmares, mines, missiles, and mutual doom. Two sides gunning their engines (and their egos) straight into the one place the world warned them to avoid. Sing it loud, sing it tragic, and feel that classic Jan & Dean “we’re all gonna die but it sounds so good” vibe!

    — END —

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  8. The good news is that in 2026 no White man pretends jews don’t control the US and only overt liars pretend the jews aren’t destroying the US
    A few years ago most White American men were either totally unaware of jewish power, denied it, or thought it’s a blessing.
    Keep in mind the NSDAP came to power in 1933 because jews openly gifted the Germans a humiliating war defeat, psychosexual lgbtqp-dystopia, rampant prostitution, a corrupt democracy, constant leftist street riots, and massive inflation. 2033 here we come.

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  10. No such thing as rightwing populism, or leftwing populism, only poopulism.
    Poopulism was manufactured by the western ruling class to lure defecting plebs back into the system.
    The system isn’t corrupt, it’s functioning exactly as intended by its architects.

    Your democracy/republic is fake.
    Your nation state is a lie, your religion too.
    They’re myths, just as medieval and ancient kingdoms were founded on myths, so too are modern nation states.
    The founding fathers weren’t heroes, they were warlords, tyrants.
    All states and isms are tyrannical, from capitalism, to Marxism, to fascism.

    Liberation comes from giving up on states, isms and religions, from doing as you please, whatever you think is good and right, which can change as you and your circumstances change, as your thoughts and feelings grow, ebb and flow.
    Liberation comes from being fully autonomous, giving up on abstractions the ruling classes use to domesticate men.

    Science too is a mixed bag at best, and of course academia.
    The medical industry largely serves big pharma, and history is written by the powerful.
    Human origins and the origins of things are a mystery.
    You don’t need to solve the mystery to live life.
    You don’t need an authority to wrap everything up in neat little package for you.

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  12. He would have destroyed himself less if he’d just taken a five-gallon can of gasoline, doused himself completely, and lit a match.

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  13. How long before Trump issues a ‘Stop Loss’ order preventing guys from leaving the military even though their enlistments are up? GWB II did that during Iraq War II which certainly didn’t enhance his rapidly diminishing popularity. A ‘Stop Loss’ order is somewhat like conscription although only an executive order from the President is needed to enact it, the notorious scumbags in Congress aren’t involved.

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  16. Orban went down partially because ziopop. It is truth that nation with folk like Bela Kun couldn’t take ziopop anymore.

    But another reason is that Hungary was flooded with money. One car was caught, 90 million cash and many kilograms of gold. Border records with Ukraine demonstrate that hundreds of cars belonging to similar folk crossed Hungary border. So we may only quess how many hundred time 90 million cash was brought.
    Now conclusion is that as long as our enemy operates with unlimited resources, they are invincible. They can print money as much they want and pay everybody so much that even most loyal people will break.
    This drives to conclusion that only way forward us destruction of financial system. As this is done only by destruction of petrodollar via massive war. EUR will collapse by itself like loss of Hitler Germany destroyed also ostmark, money printed for occupied territories.
    So unfortunately war is only way forward.

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  17. Levite-Jew economic along with their demographic warfare (massive third world “immigration” into and
    on Mighty Whitey America Australia, NZ and Europe…

    Blockade a blockade… that’s rational and makes sense only if you’re waging warfare on the Mighty Whitey Occident!! https://www.occidentalcommonwealth.org/

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  18. Levite-Jew economic along with their demographic warfare (massive third world “immigration” into and
    on Mighty Whitey America Australia, NZ and Europe…

    Blockade a blockade… that’s rational and makes sense only if you’re waging warfare on the Mighty Whitey Occident!!

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  19. Ziopopulism has to fail if there’s going to be a sustainable, nationalist populist movement for our people.

    Imagine a scenario where the trump presidency goes fairly well. No war with Iran, economy does well, gas is down. He’d become a Reagan-like figure with the next 30 years seeing Republicans try to “out trump” trump.

    Nationalists now have a clean break with Zionists and that’s a good thing

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  21. Swiss (now Liechtenstein) entrepreneur Daniel Model was sentenced in Austria to nine months in prison for posing a “threat” to the surveillance (self-proclaimed) “state.” An interesting and entertaining conversation with the “painter” (or rather, convicted art forger) Wolfgang Beltracchi (activate auto-translated subs).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhHUmmcurMg

    AI summarizes:

    This conversation starts as an interview with Wolfgang Beltracchi, but it quickly becomes something bigger: a sweeping, often provocative meditation on art, skill, fraud, markets, museums, fear, politics, and survival. Beltracchi presents himself as someone who doesn’t just paint but truly *sees*, and that ability, he says, is rare, exhausting, and impossible to teach. He argues that real artistic seeing is like an overdrive mode: most people never access it, but when he does, he can read a painting’s structure, movement, time, and hand almost instantly. For him, that’s the core of why his paintings worked — not just because he could imitate style, but because he could inhabit the logic behind a hand’s movement.

    A major theme is the collapse of the old idea that “good art” and “bad art” are neatly separable. Beltracchi insists that art can come from talent, but it can also emerge from what he calls lack of talent or limitation. He mocks the fantasy that art school automatically produces artists, and he draws a sharp distinction between real craft and the huge amount of art-world production that’s basically factory output. In his view, most famous artists today operate like brands backed by assistants, workshops, and market machinery, and scarcity is often manufactured to keep prices inflated.

    He keeps returning to the market as a kind of absurd truth machine. Old-master paintings, he says, were often workshop products, not solitary miracles, and the same logic still applies today: demand shapes production, production shapes supply, and the market then pretends the whole thing was always sacred. He’s especially skeptical of the art world’s moral theater — the idea that value is purely spiritual or cultural — when, in reality, price, scarcity, and institutional framing do most of the heavy lifting. Even contemporary art, he suggests, can become overproduced, hollow, and worthless once the illusion of rarity breaks.

    There’s also a personal, almost mystical side to his account. He says he dreams paintings before making them, works in his sleep, and sometimes even enters paintings as if they were environments he could physically inhabit. Childhood deprivation, long observation of nature, and years spent in churches and workshops all seem to have sharpened his visual instincts. He describes painting not just as making an image but as entering a state, a story, or a world. That’s why he can paint not only the surface of a person or scene but something deeper — a kind of lived presence or future version of a subject.

    The conversation then shifts into darker territory: history, apocalypse, war, surveillance, and the feeling that modern civilization has crossed certain lines it can’t uncross. Beltracchi treats Hiroshima as the start of a real apocalyptic era and sees nuclear weapons and AI as irreversible turning points. At the same time, he speaks with a strangely calm fatalism, saying he doesn’t fear death and has long believed he would live to 89. That confidence extends into his worldview: he’s unusually fearless, even in situations of violence or threat, and he treats fear almost as a foreign language he never learned.

    He also reflects on LSD, the counterculture, and the 1960s as a uniquely open period in which people felt connected to everything and had unusual freedom to study, drift, experiment, and refuse conventional life paths. He doesn’t romanticize the drugs themselves so much as the state of mind and cultural openness they sometimes created. That openness, he suggests, is very different from today’s more rigid, surveilled, and politicized climate.

    Politics is where his skepticism hardens into something sharper. He says he has little interest in politics, has never voted, and feels more at home in Switzerland than in Germany because Switzerland gives people more direct say and a stronger feeling of security. Germany, by contrast, left him with deep distrust, especially because of the surveillance and monitoring he says he experienced long after his imprisonment. He doesn’t frame himself as ideologically extreme, but he clearly has little patience for bureaucratic overreach, political posturing, or the state acting as if it owns what it shouldn’t.

    The interview closes on a very Beltracchi note: part sarcasm, part resignation, part swagger. He talks about the absurdity of art ownership, the strange afterlife of his forged works now becoming collectible in their own right, and the way the market can transform even condemned paintings into valuable objects. When the host pushes toward a final philosophical point, Beltracchi lands it with one of his favorite images: as long as the elephant is standing there and not stepping on your feet, you can let it be. It’s a fitting ending for a man who treats art, power, and life itself as things best understood by looking straight at them, not pretending they’re simpler than they are.

    https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Model_Holding
    https://archive.ph/ZkMaf
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Beltracchi
    https://archive.is/6ztcC

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