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WASHINGTON’S LOUDEST CLAIMS HAVE THE LEAST DOCTRINE BEHIND THEM
WASHINGTON’S LOUDEST CLAIMS HAVE THE LEAST DOCTRINE BEHIND THEM
Greenland, Nato, the euro and the Strait of Hormuz rest on radically different foundations. The gap between what the documents authorise and what the president says is where the story sits.
On Friday afternoon, at a police academy in Garden City on Long Island, Donald Trump told a room of law enforcement officers that he would soon be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States. He chuckled. According to the Wall Street Journal reporter in the room, he then appeared to add that it was true. Later that day a…
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