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The One Who Closed It

The United States commands the Gulf and cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It can strike Iran daily, blockade its ports and sail warships beside the tankers, and the ships still will not go, because whether a captain sails is a judgement about danger and not about the navy at his side. Closing the

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The Guardian's Cut

For a month Washington told the world that no nation may charge for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The week its war with Iran reopened, it named itself the strait's Guardian and claimed a fifth of every cargo crossing the water. The toll lasted days before Washington let it lapse, and the lap