Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz

Ships & oil transiting Hormuz each day with US help over the last 5 weeks: 6 ships & 3M barrels/day Before the war:130 ships & 18 million barrels www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Trump says the US has already re-opened the Strait. In fact, ship traffic is down 95% vs. pre-war. Non-Iranian oil barrels getting through are down 85%, but the 3 million daily barrels accompanied by the US are offset by 2 million Iranian barrels the US is blockading. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

It's hard in this war to exactly calculate how much oil is going through the Strait of Hormuz but we had a go and it doesn't seem to be that much. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Despite Trump's bullshit boasting the reality is 👉🏼Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Despite US Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of #Hormuz @nytimes.com they would work out to nearly 3 million barrels a day. Before the war, roughly 18 million barrels were being shipped through the strait per day 🤭 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b... 🧵2/2

Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz (Peter Eavis/New York Times) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

Despite US Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of #Hormuz @nytimes.com This suggests that some six ships a day went through with coordination by the United States. Before the war, around 130 vessels passed though each day. 🤭 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b... 🧵1/2

Even With U.S. Help, Little Oil Has Gone Through Strait of Hormuz www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b... "Trump said more than 200 commercial vessels had safely traveled through the strait. That’s still far fewer than before the start of the war." 🙄

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The US blockade is one of the greatest self-owns of all time. Of course, it is merely a sub-event of Trump’s Iran War, a strong contender for THE greatest self-own of all time. #OilCrisis #idiocracy #traitors