{"id":428779,"date":"2026-03-21T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/trump-on-opening-the-strait-of-hormuz-you-need-a-lot-of-help-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:00:23","slug":"trump-on-opening-the-strait-of-hormuz-you-need-a-lot-of-help-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/trump-on-opening-the-strait-of-hormuz-you-need-a-lot-of-help-2-428779\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump on opening the Strait of Hormuz: You need a lot of help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>At a certain point, the Strait will open itself<\/li>\n<li>I think Israel will be ready to end the war when the US wants it to end<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t want to do a ceasefire<\/li>\n<li>We can have dialogue but I don&#8217;t want to do a ceasefire<\/li>\n<li>On Hormuz: It would be nice if China and Japan got involved<\/li>\n<li>On UK help: A very late response, they should have acted faster<\/li>\n<li>Says lacks radar, aircraft, and leadership, with a firm stance against a ceasefire<\/li>\n<li>We have unlimited ammunition and a lot of troops<\/li>\n<li>On oil prices, Trump said he expected worse<\/li>\n<li>Repeats that operation is &#8220;weeks ahead&#8221; of schedule<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t need to Strait of Hormuz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the context of the ceasefire comment is that Iran said it won&#8217;t negotiate without a ceasefire while Trump is saying they can &#8220;have dialogue&#8221; but that he doesn&#8217;t want a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>So, basically, they can&#8217;t even agree on the terms for talking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can have dialogue, but I don&#8217;t want to do a ceasefire,&#8221; Trump says about Iran. &#8220;You don&#8217;t do a ceasefire when you&#8217;re literally obliterating the other side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump still seems to be aiming for an unconditional surrender. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a certain point, the Strait will open itself I think Israel will be ready to end the war when the US wants it to end I don&#8217;t want to do a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}