"Each use of force exposes its own limits, and the decline accelerates. The war the US was told it could not win has left it with a strait it cannot reopen."
✍️ @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2026/06/01/n...
Every instrument the United States uses to reopen the Strait of Hormuz – force, sanctions, a treaty – accelerates the structural decline that closed it