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> There might be. But, from the US point of view, the tolls are not a strategic problem

It's a problem pretty much only for the US. The US has been humiliated, embarrassed, and made incredibly weak by showing it can neither protect its allies or its core interests, and that it can not project power despite spending massive amounts of money using its fancy weapons that are supposed to be the best and most expensive in the world.

Further, its shown the world that letting the US keep a strategic base in your country is actually a huge problem for the country, and not a benefit at all.

The US had global alliances that made it very strong, its in the process of destroying all that and isolating itself in order to become weaker and poorer.

Nobody else around the world is hurt much by tariffs on the Strait. Just the US due to its massive own-goal by wasting military power on an undefined goal, with vague aspirations it could never achieve with the resources devoted to it, without convincing the US people that ant war was necessary. It put Iranian leadership on death ground without any alternative except to use all their weapons, seemingly completely unaware of decades of US wargaming about the Strait.

It's hard to overstate how much of a disaster this is for the US on every possible angle.