This is a remarkable position for President Trump to take. Optimal Solutions:
(President Trump) – “Effective IMMEDIATELY, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide, at a very reasonable price, political risk insurance and guarantees for the Financial Security of ALL Maritime Trade, especially Energy, traveling through the Gulf. This will be available to all Shipping Lines.
If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible. No matter what, the United States will ensure the FREE FLOW of ENERGY to the WORLD. The United States’ ECONOMIC and MILITARY MIGHT is the GREATEST ON EARTH — More actions to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP“
President Trump will use the full weight of the U.S. military to change behavior in Iran. Not just to change the regime per se’, but to change the behavior of whoever surfaces to represent the interests of the people. The change in behavior is the goal.
While this forced shift is underway, the full weight of the USA will also seek to mitigate any collateral economic damage to well behaved economic partners. Forceful action, optimal stewardship.
We’ll see where this goes.
Thinking more competition to Lloyd’s of London will be a good thing for the world’s markets.
I’m starting to think he is at war with the British financial system.
He is at war with the British financial system!
Promethean Action, which Sundance posts occasionally, believes Trump is targeting the British financial system. This certainly looks like he has it in his crosshairs!
Exactly. A Trumpian middle finger to Lloyds. President Trump knows where a lot of the foreign interference $$$ is coming from.
DJT the businessman has had to deal and put up with these cretins most of his life, he knows them.
The new insurance company is going to be named Lloyds of Trump.
Trumps of London?
I sort of like Trumps of Queens. 🙂
Isn’t that what Promethean Action has been saying? I think Sundance is anti that group, I could be wrong and don’t know any details, but what they say make sense to me.
My impression is that he is pro Promethean Action. That is how I came to be familiar with them through Sundance’s posting in a favorable way..
I think he posted one of their videos a few weeks back. Other treepers post them frequently. I have started following them on X.
Sundance isn’t anti. He just thinks President Trump is focused like a laser on MAGA as opposed to having the goal of wiping out the British system.
It’s a matter of focus. In my view Sundance and PA are saying the same thing — Sundance emphasizes MAGA and PA emphasizes the British system. They speak to the same thing because we can’t achieve MAGA without nullifying the British system.
How I love the Refuge — thank you ladies and gentlemen.
I have not forgotten our lads and lassies, also.
Long term – look at the pieces in play in Britain:
Sharmer will be done soon but who and what steps in?
With the long-term Islamic takeover of Britain already in play, what becomes of institutions like Lloyds, already subject to an unstable pound and political shifts when subjected to increasing Islamic influence?
And how does that affect business? Especially in the middle east? Lloyds could perceivably cripple the system further by refusing to underwrite gulf shipping entirely, or only insure friends of friends, whoever those might be.
No better time for American interests, backed by U.S. military might, to step in. Retaining some semblance of stability for Gulf shipping now has long-term ramifications economically and politically for the world including Britian, and if their economy gets bruised while the greater good is being served, Trump didn’t do it. They brought it on themselves.
I follow “what’s going on with shipping” yt site and gCaptain blog, both seem to not have political axes to grind. They point out there are 12 “clubs” made up of shipowners who provide marine P&I insurance. Typical war risk insurance runs .15% – .25% of vessel value, but now due to increased risk that cost doesn’t provde sufficient reserve to meet regulatory requirements. So the clubs cancelled insurance until new contracts can be negotiated at higher rates (historically in the range of 3%-5% so a pretty hefty jump in cost). So “Islamic takeover” not involved.
Obviously if there weren’t wars going on (Ukraine blew up a Russian LNG carrier in the East Med yesterday) risk to shipping would be less. Whether someone blames Trump or not, it is a foreseeable result of an attack on Iran.
Meanwhile one of our subs blew the back end off of one of Iran’s naval warships as well. First USN sub attack on a surface ship since WWII.
It’s exactly what Promethean Action is saying
He is. We are at war with the crazy clerics and the globalists. The bankers are a kingpin.
So far we’re winning.
Exactly what the Promethean folks have been saying.
He is
Fine with me…
Starmer at the tonight at Westminster Hall (Iftar):
“The British Muslim Community… you’re the face of modern Britain…A success story when it comes to diversity… Ramadan Mubarak!”
Break it into uncountable pieces. Burn it down and salt the earth where the ashes lie.
POTUS: “Starmer is no Churchill”.
But we know a mann who is I think 😎
👏🏻🇺🇸
Mustafa Ataturk did exactly that without a lot of drama.
BINGO!
Yes! And with Little Boy Keir Starmer! He’s such a good little cub scout, isn’t he?
Exactly what the folks at Promethean action claim. and they are are not just empty words. It is making sense as things unfold.
The District of Columbia
Is not in the
UNITED STATES
the City of London
Is not London
The nationalists earth wide
Are at war with
The City of London
https://lordmayorsshow.london/history/gog-and-magog
He’s taking it down, I think.
Lloyd’s is a world market. Nobody other than the US Gov’t at this juncture would be willing or able to insure these flows. Would you put your money up absent a guarantee to insure a vessel in the Gulf/Straights from an act of war today? I would not.
This is a brilliant move by President Trump to alleviate the short-term issue of shippers not wanting to put their boats/cargos and crews at not only financial risk, but personal risk as well.
President Trump is a practical problem solver.
He is not like the people who call themselves politicians. They are problem avoiders. If they are forced to act, they become problem creators. And they lie about everything.
Politicians have as their goal to support the people who fund them and they could care less about we the people.
“Would you put your money up absent a guarantee to insure a vessel in the Gulf/Straights from an act of war today?”
Well, I certainly wouldn’t if I wasn’t getting info from the CIA, anymore.
It is Lloyd’s that makes in unavoidable to do so & probably impossible. I know my insurer did not like my hours so decided to “not renew” my policy on my business they had been collecting on with no claims for almost 10 years. My replacement policy was more than double that cost.
Lloyd’s is a “re-insurer” meaning that a large majority of “name brand” insurance companies are backed by Lloyd’s of London or similar otherwise Lloyd’s is a monopoly.
from AI:
“The most prominent direct competitors are major international insurers and reinsurers such as Chubb, Swiss Re, Munich Re, Hannover Re, Aon, and Zurich.”
I also see some serious “collusion” in the insurance business during that time as Wally world stopped being 24/7 at the time too. 6am to 11pm pretty much everywhere. Those hours cut out 7 hours of “prime time” theft hours to no longer insure.
Bonus, money saved on paying out on shift bonus hours.
Not to mention cutting out tens of thousands of paid hours to overnight employees.
Interesting read….
When you read the full X post…
Tied into 5 eyes and M16…🤔
John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad): “This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why… Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance. Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of the world’s marine cargo. Ship sinks, port gets bombed, canal gets blocked the bill lands in London. This is why the UK punches above its weight. Not the Royal Navy. Not diplomacy. Insurance. Control insurance, control trade. And London doesn’t just control the 90% of global trade that moves by sea. Lloyd’s and the London market are major insurers of almost everything skyscrapers, factories, ports, satellites, entire supply chains. You can’t participate in public markets or raise large amounts of capital without insurance. Now, the normal playbook for war risk is repricing, not cancellation. Canceling coverage entirely is a massive escalation in underwriting posture. It signals some
Inaccurate information in many respects. Lloyds is not some big bad boogie man. Every insurance company in the world trades risk on Lloyds. Think of it as the NYSE of insurance. Even your local mutual insurance company gets reinsurance through the Lloyd’s marketplace. And the buyers of this risk could end up at any of literally 1000 places around the world, just like individuals who buy stocks through the NYSE.
Also, Acts of War have been excluded from coverage for a very long time. Terrorism exclusions came about post 9/11 because the thought of terrorism causing massive losses in places like NYC were never on an insurers radar.
The point of Xpost was to highlight the involvement
of M16 and five eyes and how Lloyds determines risk.
What if some of those “eyes “ were not able to have a
clear view?
insurance is always 🎲🎲
IC helping them out puts the odds in their favor.☺️
Lloyds isn’t a single entity. It’s a marketplace. If they tip off a single participant then I guess that’s like Nancy having insider trading.
“Lloyds is not some big bad boogie man.” Unfortunately you need to do more studying. These two threads will give you a general history of the ‘boogie man’ Lloyds.
You’re welcome!
👊🏻 👍
Thanks!
I was coming to write the same thing.
I can’t help but wonder how those who gambled on oil negative futures are viewing this!
Lloyds excludes “political acts” including war.
Political exclusions in Lloyd’s of London maritime insurance are standard, strict clauses (Clause 6) that exclude losses from war, strikes, and geopolitical violence, requiring specialized “war risk” policies for coverage.
Honestly, It’s actually a brilliant move! It puts our military in harms way on purpose. I can’t imagine Iran attacking our navy escorts without massive blowback.
Don’t think he’d do this if that were the case.
Our military exists (and is paid) to insert themselves “in harm’s way” to protect the U.S. and it’s critical interests wherever they may be.
This is being done for precisely the reasons stated by the President.
All the “ worlds shipping “ isn’t the U.S.
??
And the moon isn’t made of green cheese.
And motorcycles don’t have doors.
Read the article and try thinking on what you read.
The article stated President Trump would be willing to have destroyer ships escort other ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
Not every ship everywhere else.
President Reagan ordered Operation Earnest Will to use the US Navy to protect reflagged Kuwaiti tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz between 1987 and 1988 in response to Iran’s attacks on shipping during the Iran-Iraq war.
I can still picture the evening news reports on TV about US Navy ships escorting tankers.
We currently have 9 air defense ships in theater. Some of these will have to support the CVN Abraham Lincoln. Don’t see the capability to “escort” more than a small fraction of the shipping that would need to transit the straits.
dear russia: there is no such thing as a shadow fleet. you can sail where you want whether you have London’s permissions or not.
The geopolitical implications of this are incredibly positive. The naysayers who’ve been talking Iran up look ridiculous and the country is getting dog walked.
I don’t think DJT is willing to negotiate with anyone the mullahs pick and until all objectives are achieved. The subsequent ayatollah’s will likely be picked off and anyone who stays will have no military capabilities to speak of
In two days our gas stations show gas prices climbing 30+ cents per gallon. This strong action should help calm the oil markets.
Today Gas and Wash by me upped diesel twice and added ten cents to yesterday’s price increase on regular gas…now $3.40 per gallon.
As usual I drive from Eastern Washington to North Idaho for gas. Today gas at most stations in WA was in the $4.35-$4.40 range. $2.90 was the current price at the North Idaho station I usually go to.
Hi there ORG I’m your neighbor over here in North ID, I know exactly what you mean, 😉
Filled up lat week @ $2.12/gallon. Went by the station a bit ago and it’s $2.90!
Sorry, States are now gathering higher taxes per gallon, and the gas we’re buying was in the pipeline for a while.
Knee jerk reaction!!!
I wish someone would tell these gas stations around here to stop the panic. Diesel has risen about $1 / gallon, gasoline seems to have risen about 80 cents / gallon in central Ohio.
Panic or taking advantage?
Conglomerates no longer offer competition, they just market the panic to line their own pockets. Where is the agency that fines and breaks up these massive gouging companies?
That’s not the station…that’s wholesale pricing increasing…stations just pass those along.
Have worked at a business that sells gas.
Have recieved and logged the fuel receipts at delivery…
Entered the price paid per gallon
Compared rival pricing
Called owner…
Owner insisted on personally setting retail price daily
(Sometimes increasing retail price several times in a single day for gas purchased days before)
Have entered the preferred mark up per gallon
Determine the spread between “grades”.
Have operated the remote that sends those prices to the pumps and signage.
Believe you, me…
It is the station.
I was in your shoes about 6 1/2 years ago. Worked part – time on weekends at a station run by a regional supermarket chain. I would get a call from the supermarket’s courtesy desk with the pricing changes.
More like gouging.
That’s what’s traditionally called, price gouging.
We need laws like in Florida, around the hurricanes…
in Sunday, in Kankakee, IL, petrol was 2.59-2.79…in my further north ‘hood is now 3.40. Up from 3.09 on Sunday….
Imagine Chicago and Cali.
Mine is up to $3.69.
Welcome to hurricane aftermath.
They’re doing a bang up job here in Tucker, GA. Gas at Texaco last week: $2.59, regular.
Gas at Texaco today: $3.14, regular.
Same here in South FL
Diesel went from $ 3,23 to $ 4.39
No no no. The oil products markets have ALWAYS used ANY excuse thy can find or fabricate to INSTANTLY (overnight) increase fuel costs and resulting profits, whereas they avoid dropping prices AS LONG AS POSSIBLE – usually many months AFTER the originally alleged causes for the increases were alleviated or otherwise mitigated.
We Boomers have seen this happen repeatedly since the first Arab oil embargo of late 1973 caused artificial gasoline shortages – and long lines at the fuel pumps – around the nation. It happened again in 1979 using the Iranian revolution as the excuse.
Watch out for CONservative Inc to add “SKY ROCKETING gas prices” to the list of the we-are-doomed-the-midterms-are-over-MAGA-is-divided mantra.
Same thing happens twice a year with the “summer blend” and “winter blend”. The price always goes up ten cents a gallon but never drops back down. It only goes up.
You noticed that too.
Yep. We are treated like chumps.
Not much we can do.
Can’t boycott.
Nixon tried wage and price controls and that worked pretty much as expected (complete failure after creating chaos).
I really like President Trump, but he really ought to knock off talking about how he brought the price of gas down. He can’t control it unless he does something more authoritarian and I don’t think we want that.
Sure seems that way!
I remember those days-I actually worked in my dad’s gas station-we had even number days & odd number days based on your license plate, lines down the block.
& that was when we didn’t have “self serve” – fun times for a 17 yr old girl!
Yeah I was lucky in ‘79. Had a local convenience store with gas pumps in a semi rural area near our house.
Owner knew me well as a regular customer. Took me aside and to told me to show up at 4:30 in the morning and he could fill my tank up instead of limiting the purchase to seven dollars. He did that for several of his regular customers and he spaced us out over a two hour period. That way, the odd/even day issue based on your license tag didn’t really matter because we could get our tanks filled up. My commute at the time was 60 mile round-trip so seven dollar limit would’ve really curtailed my ability to get to my job. I’m sure it affected a lot of people.
My Dad had the same arrangement with a local gas station.
Left the car (s) overnight in a small parking lot behind the station.
I remember the gas wars in Florida in the ‘70’s. Paid 23 cents per gallon for my VW!
And the biggest loser is the democrat party as all their illegal foreign funding sources are dried up.
Kinda like my parents told me as a child, —- “You won’t like what happens if you don’t behave yourself.”
Or, put in modern vernacular, “FAFO”
My guess is by the time President Trump gets done with his “Operation Epic Fury” Iran will have no navy left to close the the Strait of Hormuz!!! Godspeed President Trump and all our armed forces participating in “Operation Epic Fury”!!!! JMO
I think their navy is already destroyed.
The discussion of Iran mining the strait…
and whether it will be done —was brought up
at beginning stages. Days ago. 🙄
As usual, it is best to take a wait and see what happens
approach.
♟️♟️we don’t know what the next move will be♟️♟️
Can you mine the strait if you don’t have a navy?
Maybe one could with underwater autonomous drones acting as smart mines.
But, then they have to deployed from somewhere and then make it to their target zone.
There’s no way that the zone is not bring heavily monitored with sonar and all.
Interesting article….
One of those…I didn’t know that! 😳
I heard the saying years ago that wars teach many
about Geography.
Amazing what I have learned about military equipment
since the Russian-Ukraine SMO…now I am learning even
more!
Iran Mosquito fleet. Submarines . Laying mines.
Status of Iran’s Navy and Update on the US-Israel-Iran War | NextBigFuture.com
We have three LCS class ships in the Gulf that are configured for mine hunting, but they can’t defend themselves from an air threat other than drones. I’m guessing IRGCN minelayers are on the target list but how hard that is I have no idea.
Status of Iran’s Navy and Update on the US-Israel-Iran War | NextBigFuture.com
Discusseds the midget submarines and mosquito fleet. Laying mines.
Good article.
Another positive action to eliminate the stranglehold control of The City of London (Insurance Division this time).
Well played Mr President.
This insurance is for four weeks in one location.
Hopefully, we won’t need more than four weeks but it can be extended.
We did the same thing during WWI to insure shipping to Great Britain against submarine warfare.
is that because the Ayatolla Son is now the Leader?
I don’t see them allowing someone chosen by the mullahs to lead they’re all too radical
The only reason tankers parked is because the big insurance companies canceled their wartime insurance come 3/5/2026…the straight isn’t closed as 3 tankers ran thru it loaded last night. Iran is loading oil tankers right now. The insurance companies are holding shippers hostage by telling that them if they run the straights those shippers will no longer be insurable.
False. Pls do not post what you do not know about. Insurance Companies do not cover “Acts of War” unless buyers are willing to explicitly purchase it and, even then, nobody is going to offer it to ships in the Straights. These policies are purchased before any voyage happens and carriers cannot “drop” coverage once its been purchased.
Those tankers that ran thru did so at their OWN risk. Their owners or captains made a decision to eff it and make a run for it. Has nothing to do with Lloyds or insurance. If they had been blown to bits, its on them.
Every ship floating in the Gulf or Straights has that option at this very moment.
Strait.
Shadow fleet.
Vessels without insurance.
Since EU sanctions started..many ships running without
Lloyds of London insurance..for years now.🤷♀️
😉It is also a good way for the EU and five eyes to know what
is coming and going. Ship manifests.
Russia and China have multiple oil and gas pipelines,
appears that China has been building up its stockpiles
of oil from Iran for months.
And then there is the Golden Corridor.🤷♀️
Makes you wonder about those three ships that made a run for it. Wonder who owns them and what they are carrying.
Just this morning financial pundit Keith Fitz-G was citing that London insurance giants would be negatively impacted by the new risks to shipping /trade.
DJT got ahead of it this afternoon……..not long after he dumped on Starmer during Fred Mertz’s visit (sans Ethel).
There will never be a repeat of January 12, 2016 under President Trump.
Oh Hell. He is insuring every other countries shipping as well. Too Far.
He is insuring the flow of oil continues…..no energy panic, no market panic and for a limited time only.
Think the other oil producing nations in that region and their good will and their economies
Shades of the Eighties Tanker War.
“HE brings the changes of seasons and times;
HE installs and deposes kings;
HE gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to those with discernment.”
Daniel 2:21 (CJB)
…”for such a time as this”
May The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY continue to Guide & Protect President Trump, Secretary Rubio, Secretary Hegseth, & others in this Amazing Administration in JESUS PRECIOUS & MIGHTY NAME AMEN, AMEN, & AMEN
“The LORD is a Warrior!”
ABUNDANT BLESSINGS
🙏 Amen
Saw earlier today that some legit tankers (not shadow tankers) are turning off their electronic tracking systems to skirt around the south coast of the Strait of Hormuz to make it harder for the Iranians to locate and shoot at them. Apparently it is working. Then again, the Iranian navy is almost totally sitting on the bottom next to their docks, their headquarters is a smoking ruin, and probably nearly all rocket and drone launch sites have been destroyed that would have been used to help enforce an Iranian closure of the Strait. Have not seen any mention of those gun boats that for years have harrassed shipping, but probably most of those are no more either, and if any do still exist, the U.S. Navy must be on the lookout and will destroy them if they venture out.
So underwriting shipping through there is likely not as big a deal in reality as much as it is a very big reassurance to the world markets. Trump is to be congratulated on the competence, experience, and ingenuity of the people he picked to be on his team. I cannot imagine anyone in the Biden admin would have or could have thought of doing this.
What about the Iranian mosquito fleet
no one is mentioning?
What is the status of it?
Status of Iran’s Navy and Update on the US-Israel-Iran War | NextBigFuture.com
“ This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why…
Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance.
Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of the world’s marine cargo. Ship sinks, port gets bombed, canal gets blocked the bill lands in London.
This is why the UK punches above its weight. Not the Royal Navy. Not diplomacy. Insurance.
Control insurance, control trade.
And London doesn’t just control the 90% of global trade that moves by sea. Lloyd’s and the London market are major insurers of almost everything skyscrapers, factories, ports, satellites, entire supply chains.
You can’t participate in public markets or raise large amounts of capital without insurance.
Now, the normal playbook for war risk is repricing, not cancellation.
Canceling coverage entirely is a massive escalation in underwriting posture. It signals something beyond risk, it signals uncertainty so deep the underwriter can’t even price it.
The question everyone should be asking: why?
Why not just jack up premiums and make a fortune off the crisis like they did in the Black Sea off Ukraine?
To answer that, you have to understand WHY London has maintained a stranglehold on global insurance while losing nearly submarket related to ships.
The answer: better intelligence.
It is no coincidence that MI6 headquarters sits directly across the Thames from the @IMOHQ, the world’s maritime regulator & a short distance from Lloyd’s itself.
I have no proof of a direct pipeline, but it has long been speculated in the industry that intelligence flows from MI6 to Lloyd’s.
Having the best intel in the world would be the single greatest competitive advantage any insurer could possess: the ability to price risk that competitors can only guess at.
Here’s the problem: the majority of MI6’s intel doesn’t come from its own agents. It comes from Five Eyes the alliance comprising the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
And within 5Eyes, the dominant partner is obvious. The CIA, NSA, NRO, etc generate the lion’s share of intel.
So if Lloyd’s pricing advantage flows from MI6, and MI6’s best intelligence flows from the US… what happens when that data pipeline gets throttled?
All indications are that @Keir_Starmer was blindsided by the size and scope of the US/Israel strikes on Iran this weekend. That alone tells you something about the current state of transatlantic intelligence sharing.
And we know there has been serious anger in Washington over the UK’s decision to sell Diego Garcia, home to America’s most strategically important base in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius.
It is not a huge leap to conclude that the submarine cables linking Langley to London have gone dark, or at minimum have been significantly throttled.
What this means for UK national security is a question for the Brits. But what it means for EVERY company globally that’s insured through the London market has massive implications for the entire financial system.
Because most large insurers worldwide don’t do independent intelligence work. They index off Lloyd’s rates.
If you’re insuring a skyscraper in Tokyo, a semiconductor fab in Taiwan, or a port in Argentina you get a Lloyd’s quote, then shop that price around.
Other insurers see Lloyd’s number and assume the diligence was done. They price accordingly.
This means if London is suddenly flying blind it’s not just Lloyd’s policyholders at risk. It’s the entire global reinsurance chain.
The cancellation of war risk coverage on ships isn’t the crisis. It’s the canary.
If this hypothesis is correct, we could be looking at a systemic repricing event across global insurance markets…. the kind of cascading uncertainty that defined 2008 and COVID.
Watch Lloyd’s. Watch reinsurance spreads. What Five Eyes. That’s where this story, and possibly Wall Street, breaks. “
President Trump just took that card off the table.
The bill may land in London but it’s paid by a 1000 different entities around the world. Including, perhaps, your pension fund.
Thank you….👊🏻👊🏻👍
I posted link above and obviously not many took the
time to read. 🙄
💥 💥 “So if Lloyd’s pricing advantage flows from M16, and M16’s
best intelligence flows from the US….what happens when that
data pipeline gets throttled.”
Either people didn’t read, or they didn’t understand.👩🏫
💥 💥 Talk from couple of days ago…..will Iran eventually mine
the waters in the Strait? 🤔
Don’t know.🤷♀️
We just wait and watch.
Reports are that China has been stockpiling Iranian oil
and other Iranian exports for months.
Oil and gas still flows through Russia-China pipelines.
And they all still have the Golden Corridor.
♟️♟️The Grand Chessboard ♟️♟️
😖 🥴 It also strengthens the argument for countries
regarding the Golden Corridor.
So far, the argument has been that inter continental vs Naval shipping …
less time and less cost. When sending products costs half ….and the time
is reduced from a month ….to one or two weeks max. Strong argument.
Now add that naval routes and shipping lanes can be interrupted, or sanctioned. 😳
I wonder if not having to pay naval shipping insurance can be added as a plus also.
And mining the Strait….😳
What is the status of the Iranian Mosquito fleet?
Status of Iran’s Navy and Update on the US-Israel-Iran War | NextBigFuture.com
Maybe if you repeat it 6 more times someone will bite your propaganda sammich.
Thanks
Yes!
“The spice must flow…”
I agree w Erik Prince this is opening a can of worms and has already created chaos and destruction: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/03/01/erik_prince_on_iran_who_takes_over_how_does_the_regime_get_changed.html
The President and Admin must stop using taxpayer moneys on foreign soil as though it’s a bottomless banc acct, take care of legal Americans 1st…
How many times are you going to post that….. Troll?
Prince is the same guy who tried to sell a tax payer funded “private army” to President Trump early in his first term.
Mr. Prince only thinks of himself and his company.
Take that, Starmer and Lloyds!
Because maritime insurance is what will raise gas prices with Hormuz being closed. And remember, Lloyd’s of London is based in the UK, world center of insurance.
If we’re going to be world cop, we may as well be paid for it.
Just to make sure I’m understanding this, insurance companies sold war insurance and collected premiums for years during peacetime, then canceled it all as soon as war came and their risks went up. Is that correct? They should be forced to return any premiums they collected for the last 10 years and put out of business permanently.
That kind of sounds like insurance.
That is incorrect. See notes above.
Thank you, Sundance.
I can say he’s a genius if he thinks outside the box
I’d liike to see us start playing whack-a-mole with those little ‘fast’ boats they have. Put something over the area with lots of loiter time and an airborne surveillance platform to hang out with them. Pretend they’re running Fentanyl off Venezuela…
I would speculate at this hour point the US Navy has eliminated any surface craft that even looks like at threat that is afloat.
There may be a few hidden on land
You can rest assured nothing is floating off the coast of Iran that the US doesn’t see.
The headline should read, ‘Trump puts US taxpayers on the hook after private insurers cancel coverage’.
That doesn’t sound like the business mind of the president I know. More than likely, it will make us money, and get the ships and companies/countries out of a bind.
It will be affordable, becuase it is based on sound and honest principles, rather than the money laundering mechanisms that make up the infrastructure of Lloyds of London.
May also release/enable our allies like Hungary to have oil instead of being blackmailed by the EU
That doesn’t sound like the business mind of the president I know. More than likely, it will make us money, and get the ships and companies/countries out of a bind.
May also release/enable our allies like Hungary to have oil instead of being blackmailed by the EU
Doesn’t Hungary and Slovakia get their primary
source of oil from the Russian Druzhba…pipelines?
Hungary, Slovakia clash with Ukraine over oil pipeline
It really sort of doesn’t matter, cause no oil will be loaded in the Persian Gulf anyway for a long time.
I can not imagine any other president in my lifetime, or ANY other politician for that matter, proposing such a plan of goodwill and stewardship.
My question is: Can can Trump unilaterally repurpose the DFC without congressional approval, as its charter doesn’t explicitly cover wartime maritime insurance. This could invite lawsuits, Senate scrutiny (e.g., ongoing War Powers debates), or delays in implementation, mirroring past executive overreaches.
I’m guessing Trump would be expending a tariff revenue should claims occur?
Amazing Leadership. Blessings to President Trump!
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This will keep City of London from having complete Insurance to control world trade in oil. There are options that destroy their monopoly on oil pricing thru London….
He’s Marlon Brando offering protection for friends
Carl Higbie
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While everyone was focused on bombs:
-Trump cut off 20% of China’s oil
-Stuck it to the UK
-brought in Billions in revenue for shipping insurance
-destroyed the BRICS currency hope
-opened 20 trillion in US oil access.
Cont and video linked….
It’s truly amazing. There’s those in this life that see the world and it’s machinations with logical simplicity. I don’t know if PDJT would have pulled off Reagan’s ending of the USSR but also I don’t see Reagan pulling off all the diplomatic and global economic affairs that Trump’s pulling off. Two truly gifted men that our nation and many around the globe are blessed by. God speed dear President Trump.
Just Curious, I’m not as tuned in as the rest of ya’ll, I’m just wondering if this a big shot at London. As such, is this another great chess move by PDJT?
Big money is trying anything they can to slow Trump down. I’m not sure about becoming insurers of all ships going through the straights of Hormuz? I can see the argument, but I don’t think it is a wise play. Let the banks seize their boats. Musk can buy them at auction, and lease them. He probably would insure them, too.
This is huge!
Begs the question does Lloyds of London still exist?
And if so, for how long once maritime insurance moves out of the UK to the insurance industry in the USA.
President Trump, always looking out for US based businesses has now given those insurers who are losing their plush medical insurance gig can now switch over to maritime insuring without missing a beat!
A VSG-PDJT indeed! Taking away a lollipop from one hand and putting a candy bar into the other hand so no one cries because they’re so busy looking at the new shining thing they forget about the old one that was removed.
Trump is amazing!!!
Bravo DJT putting an end to the iranian regime
The IRGC has thousands of little speed-boats – basically small boats with an outboard motor and a few dudes with AK47s and RPGs. They attack in swarms.
US Marines and Sailors on those convoy-escort ships may be getting in a lot of machine-gun target practice.
The Strait of Hormuz is only 24 miles wide at its narrowest point.
They were prepared. Nice thing about Term 2, the Trump team is often well prepared.
I’m going down that road again…who funds the DFC? The American taxpayer, through congressional appropriations, including USAID! Yes they charge fees for insurance, but it’s backed by my taxes, the ones our families paid and the ones we still owe, while struggling day to day. Fix these stupid blue states in our country, let other countries conglomerates pay the bill!!!! I understand our purpose there and support our military which will be escorting ships at a cost to us but I do not support guaranteeing insurance for rich shipping companies or other countries ships when I can’t afford my own insurance premiums!
Make Sure that the Chinese Pay There OWN Insurance and Supply Their Naval Vessels for Any Ships they Contract with.
They Caused This.!!! {With Their Support of Ayatollahs}