President Trump is demanding that oil-dependent countries help police the Strait of Hormuz. “Because it is their territory,” he contended. “It’s a place from which they get their energy, and they should come and they should help us protect it. You could make the case that we shouldn’t even be there at all because we don’t need it. We have a lot of oil.”
Dr. Ophir Falk, who advises Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, told CBN News, “This blackmail that [Iran is] doing with the oil just shows how terrible it would have been if they had nukes. They would blackmail the world with nuclear weapons. And there would be nothing we could do about it.”
