The Strait of Hormuz Cannot Stop Opening and Closing, and Neither Can the War It Sits Inside
If you have spent the last several months trying to track whether the Strait of Hormuz is open or closed, you are not confused because you are bad at following news, you are confused because the situation itself has been built, almost mechanically, to resist a stable answer. It opens, it closes, it opens a little, under guard, for a fee, for a select few flags, and then it closes again, and each time it does either of those things, someone somewhere declares that this time it is real, this […]
