Another American quagmire at Hormuz
The high and rising costs of America’s compulsive interventionism in Iran are not a surprise – they’re a bill coming due
Doomed diplomacy: Iran’s pros wrestle while US rookies play poker
Expertise gap between Iran’s veteran negotiators and America’s amateur appointees is as disastrous as it is embarrassing
US stuck using $1 million missiles against Iran’s $20,000 drones
While Iran’s drones hit US bases and terrorize Gulf allies, Pentagon is mired in paperwork and looking to others for help
Is China’s soft power rising, or is America’s just crumbling?
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Hormuz blockades show how everything is now about leverage
Countries that thrive in future will establish their own Strait of Hormuz — and never need to sail through anyone else’s
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