Trump Wants 20% of Every Cargo Through Hormuz
On 13 July 2026 Trump declared the US ‘Guardian of the Hormuz Strait’ and claimed a 20% toll on all cargo as ‘reimbursement’ for safety and security, reimposing the blockade and declaring the ceasefire over. This site judged Iran’s toll by four tests; intellectual honesty requires the same test here. The guardian’s toll fails all four, and worse: a non-riparian power, at 15x Iran’s rate, discriminatory by design. It is what tolling looks like when might replaces right, the clearest proof yet of what the institutional vacuum produces.