While Donald Trump was urging voters to cheat in the upcoming midterms and frantically posting AI slop fantasizing about colonizing Canada, Mexico, the moon, renaming the state of New Mexico and causing new tensions with yet another ally – his real-life war was on the verge of a huge defeat.
Bottom line: Get ready to spend even more on gasoline, diesel, God knows what else, and possibly more American lives lost, all thanks to Trump’s and Whiskey Pete Hegseth’s epic failures.
You know it’s bad when Jeff “Trump Fluffer” Bezos’ Washington Post begins its report with this headline: “Oil routes in peril as attacks shut Saudi pipeline and Houthis threaten key waterway. ‘This is the first day that Iran really started winning the war,’ a Yemeni official said of Houthi territorial gains that give Tehran leverage over a second major waterway.”
The article goes on to explain that Iranian-backed Houthi fighters launched drones from Iraq and shut down “a key Saudi Arabian pipeline to the Red Sea.”
How bad is this? The article quotes Brett Erickson, a risk advisory consultant who tracks energy markets, saying, “The Houthis are now positioned to asphyxiate one of the escape valves for an energy market already being strangled in the Strait of Hormuz.”
This was not an attack out of the blue. “Ahmed Nagi, a senior Yemen analyst for the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based research organization, said the Houthis made substantial advances since Thursday.” The energy markets saw the looming disaster. “As the Houthis advanced in recent days, energy markets have been rattled. Brent oil, the global benchmark for crude, soared past $100 per barrel,” The Post noted.
The paper also noted that the biggest U.S. military base in Africa is just 20 miles from the strait.
Did the Trump administration’s intelligence services, headed by an unqualified loyalist, fail to know about it? Or did the administration and the Pentagon, headed by the unqualified loyalist Pete Hegseth, who can’t do his job without his mommywife, fail to prevent it?
What we do know is that while the Houthis were advancing, Trump was celebrating himself in Dallas with promises of bribes for votes and a deranged closing speech.
Whatever happened – or didn’t – in the Trump administration, Trump prioritizing his European golf club over vital U.S. interests could not be further proof of his utter incompetence and unfitness for the job.
Update:
BREAKING: Costco is now rationing motor oil for the first time in history, limiting members to one transaction and a maximum of 2 units every 7 days on its Kirkland house-brand full-synthetic, which now sells at $58 for 10 quarts after going for as low as $30 before the war, per…
— The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) September 13, 2026
