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He has no problem imposing high tariffs, so Proles need to pay more for a wide range of products. Why should he exempt fuel from the Prole money extraction project?
Difference of degree. If the Strait stays closed until worldwide oil and gas inventories collapse, and you start disrupting global microchip production, you end up causing a massive energy crisis. You end up precipitating a second Great Recession. It's absolutely contrary to Trump's interest to have that happen. Which is why he folded.
Joe Kent can spin it all he wants, and maybe the Administration will be successful in persuading some portion of the population to believe that this wasn't a terrible outcome. But none of that would then make it in Trump's interest to close the Strait again, or to drive up oil prices again. This isn't a feint until the election is over.
