Bridgewater's Ray Dalio: Control of the Strait of Hormuz Will Determine Whether U.S. Hegemony Endures or Collapses

BlockBeats News, March 17th, Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, published a long article "It All Comes Down to Who Controls the Strait of Hormuz: The Final War." The article pointed out one obvious thing about the Iran war: it will all come down to who controls the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran still controls who can pass through the Strait of Hormuz, or even retains the power to negotiate: America will be deemed to have lost this war.

If Trump and America cannot win this war, they will be seen as having created an irreparable disaster. Whatever the reasons America failed to control Hormuz, both Trump and America will lose. Losing the impact of Hormuz on America would be akin to the impact of the 1956 Suez Canal crisis on Britain, and similar failures to the Dutch Empire in the 18th century and the Spanish Empire in the 17th century. The event pattern leading to the collapse of empires is almost always the same, and this decisive "final war" will determine whether America's global hegemony survives or collapses.