Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that convicted felon President Trump has been telling his minions he’s okay with ending the war against Iran without any effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – the narrow waterway through which 20 percent of the world’s oil supply moves – closed on Tehran’s terms and, according to the Journal, “leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date.”

The President of the United States, who projects an image of courage and resolve to his fanatic cultists, felt a lot of indecision and reluctance when informed by aides that any operation to reopen the Strait – that he also recently decided would eventually be renamed the Strait of America or the Strait of Trump as symbol of his victory – would take four to six weeks. So now he wants to just try to cripple Iran’s naval and ballistic missile capabilities while resuming diplomatic pressure and, should that fail, pressure allies in Europe and the Middle East to figure out how to reopen the Strait.

Brooking Institution Vice President and Iran expert Susan Maloney called any such capitulation before the Strait is opened “unbelievably irresponsible, adding that Trump and Israel started the war together and can’t walk away from the fallout, “Energy markets are inherently global, and there is no possibility of insulating the US from the economic damage that is already occurring and will become exponentially worse if the closure of the strait continues,” said Maloney, expressing the exact kind of smarty-pants, swampy “expertise” thinking that got Trump elected twice in the first place.