Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's fell again.

So today, we're going to talk about France trying to clean up Trump's mess.

While Trump flails about, trying to stop gas prices from rising even faster than they already are,

as he drops sanctions on adversarial

nations, as he looks at letting Iran sell oil for more and fund their war machine, as he tries

to pass off non-military, non-committal statements of support as some kind of coalition to reopen

the strait.

As he lashes out at NATO, something else is happening in the background.

French President Macron is working to open the Strait of Hormuz by acting at the United Nations level.

I feel like somebody recently said,

Trump was begging the wrong organization

when he kept babbling about NATO obligations

that don't actually exist anywhere

except in the mind of a president

who obviously never read the treaty.

Macron has said he already reached out and explained, quote,

to the UN Secretary General this afternoon, that France intends to sound out its main partners,

and in particular the members of the Security Council, on whether it would be appropriate to establish a UN

framework for what we want to do in the Strait of Hormuz.

Macron has put in some quiet diplomatic work, reaching out to major players in the world

behind the scenes, not via social media post, to see if something can be done

to untangle Trump's mess. He seems hopeful and is indicated they'll be testing it out over the

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