JD Vance on The Strait of Hormuz: What the United States has been able to do successfully—which is why those prices have started to come down—is get a lot of oil out of the Gulf by protecting the ships that were moving. Long-term, we don't want to have a military presence that protects all of these ships that are moving. We just want the Iranians to behave like a normal country and stop shooting at those ships. Source: Allie Beth Stuckey