{"id":15727,"date":"2026-03-29T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=15727"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:10:18","slug":"verdict-trump-tells-nato-never-forget-then-used-iran-to-prove-it-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/verdict-trump-tells-nato-never-forget-then-used-iran-to-prove-it-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"VERDICT: Trump Tells NATO &#8216;Never Forget&#8217; \u2014 Then Used Iran to Prove It &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VERDICT: Trump Tells NATO &#039;Never Forget&#039; \u2014 Then Used Iran to Prove It\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rwjwYW2T7Gw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">In this Saturday Wrap, Barbara Boyd argues that President Trump\u2019s cabinet remarks and Saudi Investment Forum comments mark a \u201cverdict\u201d on NATO and the broader transatlantic system that has dominated the global economy for 40 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">She contends the Iran War is fundamentally a financial story: after Europe offered only a post-hostilities role policing the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. moved to replace Lloyd\u2019s of London by using the U.S. Development Finance Corporation, maritime reinsurance, and Central Command to secure Gulf shipping. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Boyd says this shift amounts to U.S. control over a critical energy chokepoint\u2014captured in Trump\u2019s \u201cStrait of Trump\u201d line\u2014reshaping how oil flows to Asia. She previews Trump\u2019s May 14\u201315 Beijing trip, framing U.S.-China relations around shared industrial traditions linked to Sun Yat-sen and rejecting a \u201ccold war\u201d narrative. 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She contends the Iran War is fundamentally a financial story: after Europe offered only a post-hostilities role policing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/verdict-trump-tells-nato-never-forget-then-used-iran-to-prove-it-youtube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VERDICT: Trump Tells NATO &#8216;Never Forget&#8217; \u2014 Then Used Iran to Prove It &#8211; YouTube<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15729,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions\/15729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}