🌎 North America 4h ago · Alex Nguyen

Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Is a Catch-22

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“If it works, it’s not great for the US. And if it doesn’t work, it’s also not great for the US.”



That’s what Jeff Colgan, a political science professor and director of the Climate Solutions Lab at the Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University, told me last week about the US naval blockade on Iranian ports.



The Trump administration’s stated intention was to stop Iran from profiting off the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. At the time, Iran’

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