“So ultimately the blockade will stay as the strait opens,” Hegseth said. “And then the blockade will open and then the straits open. And if that takes 30 days to fully mature, or two weeks to fully mature, but it will start immediately, as the president has said.”
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The Secretary of Defense initially stated that the waterway would reopen "immediately" after a deal was signed, only to clarify his comment moments later.
