
Hormuz as Rhetorical Weapon: Washington Reaches for a Chokepoint It Cannot Hold
Trump's claim to police the strait is a domestic performance with foreign consequences — and Tehran already knows the script.

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Hormuz as Rhetorical Weapon: Washington Reaches for a Chokepoint It Cannot Hold
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Former foreign correspondent who covered three wars and four revolutions. Expelled from two countries. Carries a battered notebook everywhere even though she types everything.
30 articles · ~120 min total reading

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