Fortune· 2h ago· 1 min read
President Donald Trump is essentially out of “levers” to pull during a second phase of the Iran war as oil prices again flirt with the $100 per barrel “psychological” threshold that makes energy markets jittery.
With global oil and fuel emergency reserves already dwindled and fighting spreading to the Red Sea —Saudi Arabia’s alternative outlet for oil exports—the concern is the U.S. faces either escalation or capitulation , energy and geopolitical analysts said. That means expanding the military operation to include so-called boots on the ground or ceding the now-infamous Strait of Hormuz to Iran to control and charge de-facto tolls, called service or administrative fees in a thinly veiled effort to avoid violating international maritime laws.
The big question now is whether Trump—after some short-term period of escalation—will choose the so-called “TACO” route, said Dan Pickering,…
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