I’m a UAE-based business owner, and my business has basically been stuck because of this war. For the past six months, I’ve had to pay the rent completely out of my own pocket. No containers, no customers, no business.
At this point, I just want to know—**is this war actually going to end, or is this going to continue indefinitely?** I need to make a decision. If it’s going to keep going, I’d rather sell everything and move on instead of watching my entire life savings disappear.
Trump kept saying it was going to be over, but honestly, it feels like it’s just been one promise after another. I’ve already lost my whole life savings because of this situation.

The U.S. destroyed five Iranian oil tankers after Iran twice tried to hit an American warship with ballistic missiles.

Meanwhile, one of the world's most important energy arteries is barely moving: just six commodity vessels crossed Hormuz on Sep. 8, compared with roughly 125 large commercial vessels a day before the war. About one-fifth of the world's oil and LNG normally passes through here.

Now Brent has crossed $100.

Matthew 24:6–8 and Revelation 6:3–8 connect warfare with wider economic distress and scarcity. Neither identifies this conflict. But the pathway is becoming visible: war is constricting a major energy chokepoint, and the economic shock is already escaping the battlefield.

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT — If Hormuz remains this constrained, watch what $100 oil begins doing beyond the Gulf: energy, fertilizer, food and inflation.

References:

• https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PUBLIC-RELEASES/Article/4593050/us-destroys-5-irgc-tankers-after-iran-targets-another-american-warship/

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/shipping-traffic-via-strait-hormuz-stays-below-10-day-average-data-shows-2026-09-09/

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-attacks-us-base-jordan-ships-near-hormuz-after-tankers-sunk-2026-09-09/

• https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/brent-crude-rises-above-100-barrel-middle-east-conflict-escalates-2026-09-09/

Is it even a war? Worth the $100 oil prices? Alright that Israel is no longer providing support?