It makes no sense to me. Trump is clearly desperate for the strait to be opened again (see his last tweet); the US navy is not able to escort anyone through it

It makes no sense to me. Trump is clearly desperate for the strait to be opened again (see his last tweet); the US navy is not able to escort anyone through it without taking huge risks; the insurance backstop is useless- almost no ships passed through the strait, period- the ones that do have an agreement with Iran, not the US. Increased oil prices hurt US citizens almost as much as they hurt everyone else. It all sounds like an attempt to make a quagmire look like 4d chess. What is happening instead is that Iran is making agreements with various countries to let their ships through. These countries stand to lose it all again in case of a US attack, so they have an interest in trying to stop it.