The noose is tightening around the neck of Iran’s rump regime. Pay no attention to the Trump Distortion Effect that is bending much of war reporting into a critique of President Donald Trump. That’s wish-casting from lefties in legacy media. America is dominating this conflict. The United States will prevail.
The Strait of Hormuz is closed to every country in the world. Iran has proposed reopening it as a sort of watery version of the New Jersey and Ohio turnpikes — except the tolls would be exorbitant, and there is no alternative route for tankers and super freighters.
Such a scheme would be a major break with long-standing international law of the seas and the tradition of freedom of navigation. Such a radical departure from centuries of practice would set off a scramble at every narrow point on the world’s connected waters.
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