🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 For weeks, the story was that Trump ended the Iran war from a position of dominance. Larry Johnson argues the real reason is far less flattering: America was about to run out of oil.
Larry walks me through what actually moved Trump.
A Monday briefing on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, down to roughly 349 million barrels against US consumption of 20 million a day, leaving maybe 17 days of cushion if Hormuz stayed shut.
Trump all but confirmed it himself, admitting the US would have run out in about four weeks.
The most striking part is buried in the MOU.
The US and Iran both agreed to guarantee Lebanon's sovereignty, which Larry reads as Washington quietly greenlighting Iranian backing of Hezbollah to push Israel out of the south.
His take: if Iran got nothing else, that clause alone made them the winner.
Do I give Trump credit? Yes.
Did he have a choice? Not really.
Larry calls it a Nixon to China moment.
@NewSonof
