Originally Posted by
henra
Which would be mainly China, India, Japan and South Korea.Those are the Countries which are getting their Oil and fertliser from there. Seems at least China, India and maybe Japan have found a silent agreement with Iran. seems things will be rather settling behind the scenes once the big dust has settled and everyone's gone home.
By 'everyone', you presumably mean the USA.
That doesn't help the Gulf nations that until now have been allies of the USA. The still have to get their oil/gas/minerals out of the Gulf, and I doubt they're confident that the departure of the USN would stop the asymmetric warfare or blockage of the strait. At best, they'd be left having to factor in the 'toll' charge to their prices, to their own detriment. At worst, they'd be left defenceless. These countries have paid the Trump administration (or family) huge amounts of money to insure them against exactly what's happening now. If the US military creeps away, that's another tranche of allies lost to the US. Those bases are/were useful.