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Sailor radios profane reply after US forces parrot Trump claim Strait is 'open’
Open for Whom?The Strait Is Not a Talking PointThe reporting gives us a simple fact dressed up in national-security theater: traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed from more than 100 ships a day to about a dozen. That is not “open” in any meaningful political sense. It is a chokepoint under military pressure, with commerce slowed by force and fear.Trump’s insistence that the waterway is open is not analysis. It is performance. He can say it because the office gives him a megaphone, not because the ships agree.Power Means Credibility, Not BravadoThe actual holders of institutional…
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