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Laughter as conservative's stammering attempt to defend Trump backfires
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First Came the War. Then Came the Excuse.
The Sequence Matters
The Strait of Hormuz was open before President Donald Trump launched military action against Iran on February 28. Iran then closed the strait, disrupting a route that carries a fifth of the world’s oil. That chronology is not a footnote. It is the central political fact.
Yet Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin described the resulting crisis as evidence that Washington must “make sure we have control” of the strait. The administration’s war creates the immediate conditions for disruption; the disruption…
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