An increasingly desperate Donald Trump is now begging other nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz and join the war effort against Iran, after Iran has escalated its targeting of increasingly restive Arab Gulf nations. Iran has the ability to stop shipping through the strait, a major channel for oil and gas transport, and to significantly undermine the economies of the Arab Gulf states. The Iranian scarecrow that the Americans and Israelis have erected for decades to force the oil-drenched Arab Gulf states to submit to their will (e.g. by signing the Abraham accords) has turned out more alive than expected.
In his deranged All-Upper-Case post, the dumb jackass in the Whouthouse said, "The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT! ... The U.S. will also coordinate with those Countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly, and well."
Energy hubs have become regular targets for Iranian drone attacks, and disruptions are already under way. U.S. embassies in Iraq, Lebanon and other countries in the region have been warning with alarm U.S. citizens and US corporations and industries to move out of the region.
The joint US-Israel attacks on Iran have created the biggest-ever oil supply disruption and have pushed up global prices and rattled stock markets across the world. Acccording to an AI query - "Since the onset of the Iran war, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced significant losses, dropping around 3,000 points from its peak in early February 2026. This includes a plunge of over 1,200 points on March 3, 2026, and further declines in subsequent days.
Oil-loading operations were suspended last Saturday in the UAE's Fujairah emirate, a global ship-refueling hub. Meanwhile, an Iranian military spokesperson has warned people in the UAE to evacuate ports, docks, and "American hideouts".
For his part, Trump was spending the weekend playing golf in his Florida club. After berating traditional US allies ever since he acceeded to the white house, he is now begging those same countries to join the yet-unsuccessful US-Israeli attacks. Trump keeps sending mixed and ambiguous messages about the conduct of the war, reflecting a confusion between desirable goals (e.g. a complete surrender of Iran) and unsatisfactory facts on the grounds (Iran is digging in, and Arab Gulf states are increasingly terrified at the massive flight of capitals and investments and loss of revenue from disrupted oil shipping).
Trump is now begging countries like China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others for help. After repeatedly calling the US's western allies "ungrateful" - although they all rushed to support the US after 9-11 in its war in Afghanistan - Trump is only now realizing that he needs them. It is likely that (at least) the Europeans would be reluctant to join the Israel-US war effort, as they negotiated with Iran a successful JCPOA agreement in 2015 on Iran's nuclear program, only to see the American jackass walk out of it "in spite" at the behest of his Zionist handlers.
Trump's call for help is significant, given that he has based his entire program on "America First" and "America Alone". His call to those traditional U.S. allies who have been slowly divorcing themselves from the unreliable US is reflected in historically neutral Switzerland's distancing itself from any involvement in the Iran war. The Swiss Federal Council has rejected two U.S. requests to allow reconnaissance aircraft to fly through Swiss airspace en route to Iran.
Resentment had already been mounting in Gulf Arab capitals at being drawn into a war they neither initiated nor endorsed, but are now paying for economically and militarily. It is highly unlikely that Trump would foot the bill of reconstruction for those Gulf Arab states that will continue to suffer from Iran's counterattacks. They are wealthy, for now.
Some of Trump's own surrogates are increasingly impatient as well. Venture capitalist David Sacks, who is the Moron's AI and crypto czar, has warned of potentially catastrophic consequences if the U.S.-Israel war on Iran continues. In a podcast on Friday, he said “we should probably find the off-ramp... This is a good time to declare victory and get out, and that is clearly what the markets would like to see." But he complained that there’s a hawkish faction of the Republican Party who wants to escalate the war, send in ground troops, and seek regime change. Yet, any ramp-off would mean that the war has failed and that Iran, by default, has won.
Trump initially said he seeks regime change in Iran, but has since retreated from that objective. Meanwhile, he has ordered the U.S. military to send 2,500 Marines from Asia to the Middle East in a clear indication that his recklessness at abiding blindly by Zionist demands is not paying off, will cost the US blood and treasure, and will not ensure the success of otherwise poorly defined war objectives.
Sacks flagged concerns of a tit-for-tat escalation spiral in Iran that could see both sides targeting each other’s oil and gas infrastructure. By that point, resuming energy flows by reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed, won’t matter because restarting oil and gas production wouldn’t be possible, he said.
The Iranian attacks on desalination plants across the water-poor Gulf is raising alarms. Sacks said, “If you see that type of destruction continue, you could literally render the Gulf almost uninhabitable ...I mean you’re not going to have enough water for 100 million people, and human beings just cannot survive very long without water. So that would be a truly catastrophic scenario, and we’re talking about destroying the Gulf states economically and then also from a humanitarian perspective.”
While Israel isn’t as vulnerable, Sacks also pointed out the country has been hit hard by Iranian attacks, adding that “Israel could just be destroyed or very large parts of it” if the war drags on for weeks or months. "In a scenario where Israel is facing such a serious threat, that raises the risk of it escalating the war even further and perhaps contemplate the use of nuclear weapons", he said. Lebanon iznogood has previoulsy raised a seemingly inexorable slide into using nuclear weapons, [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/03/will-trump-nuke-iran-to-bring-quick-end.html]
Given the “horrifying directions” that further escalation may produce, Sacks said it’s time to look at de-escalation, which could entail a ceasefire agreement or negotiated settlement. The comments come amid reports that some administration officials are also pushing Trump to seek an off-ramp to the war as the recent spike in oil prices raises severe political and economic risks.
Trump's ambiguous and confusing messaging on the war is extremely frigthening. Not only does it indicate that a dumb Trump was reluctantly dragged into the war by Israel's War Criminal PM Benjamin Netanyahu, but it also portends that any retreat by the US will be seen as a defeat for the US and a victory for Iran. The Iranian regime will win this war by simply not losing it, just as its terrorist subsidiaries like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine have been "winning" for four decades... by not losing. Which means that a US-Israeli hyper-escalation of warmongering is inevitable for the simple reason that they must save face, just as the Iranian regime's own survival depends on its own escalation of its retaliatory strikes.
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