Iran is tightening its grip on the world’s energy supply, using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of blackmail. Let’s call it what it is: a global energy hostage crisis. Tehran’s clerics know exactly what they’re doing by threatening to impose tolls and limit ship movement through this narrow, vital sea passage. With one hand, they’re shaking down the West; with the other, they’re fueling chaos and uncertainty—something the leftists in Washington seem content to ignore, as long as it suits their anti-fossil fuel, climate-crazed agenda.
As usual, the ones paying the price for this weakness are everyday Americans. When gas prices skyrocket, it’s not the limousine liberals or the globalist bureaucrats in Brussels standing at the pump. It’s hardworking families around the world, suffering because yet another Democrat administration is asleep at the wheel, happy to let our enemies call the shots. The same people who lecture Americans about “green energy” are perfectly comfortable letting Iran strangle global oil shipments. It’s the kind of hypocrisy we’ve come to expect from career politicians and their media mouthpieces.
But there’s a solution staring us in the face—a plan that doesn’t bow to Iran or appease leftist activists. Instead of letting a hostile regime hold the world’s energy hostage, why not build new pipelines across Saudi Arabia straight to the Mediterranean? This isn’t rocket science—it’s strong, smart policy. Moving oil and gas out of Iranian reach would change the game overnight. It would cut Iran’s influence to size and take away its favorite weapon. Yet you won’t find the Biden administration, or its European allies, promoting this idea. Are they too afraid to upset the climate lobby? Too cozy with Iranian negotiators? Or just too incompetent to act in the national interest?
Let’s be clear—energy security means national security. Every day the West drags its feet, Iran grows bolder. Stack this up with Biden’s disastrous surrender in Afghanistan and his failed Iran policies, and there’s a clear pattern: weakness, confusion, and a total lack of backbone. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Netanyahu is making perfectly logical suggestions, and it’s the so-called “progressives” who act like he’s the problem.
America and its allies need leaders who put forceful, realistic solutions on the table—not utopian fantasies or endless negotiations with thugs. Iran doesn’t play nice, and it doesn’t care about promises from Washington. If we’re not willing to outflank them, we’re begging to be pushed around. How much higher do gas prices have to go before somebody in the White House wakes up and puts American interests first?
Source: Breitbart
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