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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 Siege That Picks a Side

A naval blockade is a blunt object, and it does not choose a target inside the government it squeezes. Yet the siege Washington restarts against Iran this week did exactly that the last time it ran, and the faction it strengthened is the one now left holding a failed deal. The blockade produced June