Tag: middle-east

  • Strait of Hormuz: The Board Game Edition

    Like most people, I’ve been watching this story with a mix of disbelief and exhaustion that is quickly becoming the default setting for following American foreign policy. I want to be upfront. I’m not a foreign policy expert. I don’t pretend to understand all the moving parts and I’m genuinely open to the possibility that…

  • Is the Iran War America’s Biggest Self-Own of Self-Owns?

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    Three and a half weeks in. Twenty-four days of US and Israeli strikes on Iran, oil at $112 a barrel, thirteen American soldiers dead, the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed, and the administration now scrambling to lift sanctions on the very country we’re bombing — just to keep gas prices from completely destroying what’s left…