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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The bridges Trump warned about for next week reportedly got hit tonight Per Tasnim, US strikes reportedly hit a key bridge around Bandar Abbas tonight, days after Axios reported Trump warning that next week brings the power plants and the bridges. While the two guests were still talking,... an F-35 reportedly declared an inflight emergency over UAE airspace, and the WSJ reported Trump is leaning toward expanded operations, with Kharg Island ground options on the list. Jonathan Conricus, former IDF spokesman, argued the case for force: CENTCOM has planned the strait mission for decades, the targets that actually matter remain unstruck, and the West keeps crediting the regime with strength it lacks: "If the straits need to be opened, then they need to be opened by force." Brandon Weichert answered with arithmetic. Two Marine expeditionary units plus the 82nd Airborne against a tunneled coastline of anti ship missiles reads like Gallipoli to him, the Navy already keeps its distance, and by his count interceptor stocks drained fast in sea fighting the public never saw. His bottom line: the strategic loss already happened, and the exit runs through negotiation. Jonathan granted Washington never explained this war to its own public, and Brandon granted the escalation is coming regardless. The bridges outside Bandar Abbas were settling the question in real time. Two of the sharpest people on opposite sides of the same question. Brandon Weichert, Jonathan Conricusshow more

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The WSJ reports Trump is leaning toward U.S. ground forces seizing Kharg Island, and the MoU is effectively dead. Fmr. IDF spokesperson and FDD senior fellow Jonathan Conricus says the ceasefire framework was faulty from day one, delivering something that served Iran more than the US. What exists now, in his read, is a contained but escalating exchange of kinetic violence. And the leaks deserve attention on their own. Stories like this surface in a very specific context, Conricus notes, and everyone should be watching closely what comes next. Jonathan Conricus, Brandon Weichert

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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Kharg Island reportedly hit for the first time since April, the red line Tehran named months ago, and the war may be back on... Brandon Weichert's verdict came out flat as the night unfolded: the war is back on the menu. Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Qeshm, then reports of Kharg, and before we signed off, unconfirmed reports of anti-ship missiles and drones launched at US Navy warships in the Persian Gulf. We were counting missile flight times on air. His argument has never wavered, this was never about nukes. The one true red line is Hormuz. Iran can't surrender it while this regime stands, Washington can't concede it, and two absolutes leave only collision. He reads tonight's reported target list as battle-space preparation, softening the coastline for an eventual amphibious move on the islands, likely after the midterms. And he keeps circling back to McNamara's warning: rationality will not save us. One claim he stressed was unverified but couldn't shake: that earlier in this war, a Navy commander demanded WRITTEN orders before taking ships into the strait. Commanders ask for paper when they doubt they're coming back. Part of me still holds that Iran's battered economy makes pragmatism the smarter bet. But with funeral crowds chanting revenge in three cities, tonight didn't belong to pragmatism. Brandon Weichert

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🚨🇮🇷🇧🇭 Bridge for bridge: hours after U.S. strikes dropped bridges in Iran, Iran reportedly targeted the only road out of Bahrain Two sources say Iran targeted the King Fahd Causeway overnight, with emergency crews reportedly heading to the bridge; no damage assessment yet, so treat it as unconfirmed. At the same time, Qatar took what one account called its heaviest bombardment of the entire war, with impacts across Doha from 3:30am, only the second time Qatar has been hit since the MOU. Stefano Ritondale reads the causeway report as "an eye for an eye." Washington dropped bridges around Bandar Abbas, so Tehran reached for the one bridge that keeps Bahrain connected: its single land artery, the same causeway Saudi forces crossed in 2011 to put down Bahrain's uprising. His read of the message underneath: touch Iranian energy infrastructure and the same mirror waits there. On the bigger fear, he put a number on it. A ground operation sits around 1 IN 10 for him right now. What he watches for: strikes shifting onto Iran's regular army, which he says just began in Khuzestan and Baluchistan after months aimed only at the IRGC, and bridge cutting around Bandar Abbas to isolate the port. Both are happening; the tempo, in his view, stays far too low to call anything imminent. If it ever comes, his bet is Qeshm Island, Marines first, and not without Emirati help. One more pattern worth sitting with: the strike list keeps growing, and the two countries still untouched are the two any landing would need. Artorias

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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 An IRGC general put a clock on it: two to three more days of American strikes and Iran abandons tit-for-tat for a full-scale offensive phase Major General Mohsen Rezai's warning reframed the whole night. Waves of missiles and drones without the reciprocal limits that have held for weeks, if the strikes don't stop. Larry Johnson's counsel was simple: believe them. Iran has meant what it said all war. The escalation pattern is already written into the day. Overnight the US hit six or seven bridges and tunnels around Bandar Abbas, framed by the Wall Street Journal as severing supply routes to the naval base, plus Yazd deep in the country's center. Iran answered on the same rung: a desalination plant and power station in Kuwait, with reports of rationing. These are the exact red lines everyone fixated on in the spring, bridges, water, power, now being crossed at scale while much of the press has moved on. The live feed never let up. Two tankers reportedly struck Iranian mines on the Omani route, an unconfirmed anti-ship missile claim against a US supply vessel in the Indian Ocean, and by night's end sirens near Yanbu, the terminal Saudi built specifically to bypass Hormuz, untouched the entire war as far as either of us could recall. Larry's sharpest new read was Iraqi Kurdistan: Sulaymaniyah got hammered hardest, he believes, because Tehran thinks the Kurds are the someone else Trump keeps saying will fight on the ground. SonofNewAmericanRevolution

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. strikes reportedly reached the railway linking Iran to China, and that target choice says plenty about what this phase of the war is actually about Brandon Weichert connected the dots on the map. Kharg yesterday, the Gorgan line today, the final link of the Eurasian Land Bridge that starts in Xi'an and ends in Tehran. Producing oil means nothing if you can't move it, and in his read Washington is now going after Iran's entire energy profile, the flow as much as the fields. Iran's answer? The same Bahrain and Kuwait packages, third wave tonight, smoke rising over the Fifth Fleet headquarters again in unconfirmed footage. Brandon sees discipline in that restraint: Tehran is running an economic countdown while Washington burns through its reserve, and by his math the regime only needs to hold on another 20 or 30 days. Qatar sits "on the menu," untouched, which tells him the red line hasn't been crossed. His sharpest detail was legal, not military. The whole fight over the Omani corridor exists because every ship that uses Iran's traffic separation scheme strengthens Tehran's case to charge its fee. The routes ARE the war. One reassuring cross-check: a genuine clearing operation for a ground push would drop fifty times this ordnance. He agreed without hesitation. His words: that's a blessing. Brandon Weichert

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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸Iran just fully closed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the ceasefire, and the U.S. answer came within MINUTES The trigger: a missile into the Cyprus-flagged Galaxy on the Omani route, one crew member missing, the ship burning and dead in the water. Centcom's statement says the strikes come at the commander-in-chief's direction, and this wave is different. For the first time since June 17, ground-launched ATACMS and HIMARS are reportedly flying out of Kuwait and Bahrain, meaning two Gulf states just visibly signed their names to the campaign. Targets stretch from Jask to Bushehr's vicinity to Kaman, the deepest strike map yet, with air defenses lighting up near Tehran. Brandon Weichert read the response speed as the tell: retaliation that fast means the packages were pre-loaded, and an administration primed for something bigger than tit-for-tat. His deeper point hasn't moved. Washington keeps betting that economic strangulation collapses the regime, but 47 years of sanctions never buckled a government whose legitimacy was never economic. Iran can't blink because for Tehran this is existential; Washington won't blink because Trump reads any Iranian control of the strait as defeat. His World War One line hung over the night: nobody in 1914 called it a world war either. They called it the Third Balkan Crisis. Brandon Weichert

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸Iran just fully closed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the ceasefire, and the U.S. answer came within MINUTES The trigger: a missile into the Cyprus-flagged Galaxy on the Omani route, one crew member missing, the ship burning and dead in the water. Centcom's statement says the strikes come at the commander-in-chief's direction, and this wave is different. For the first time since June 17, ground-launched ATACMS and HIMARS are reportedly flying out of Kuwait and Bahrain, meaning two Gulf states just visibly signed their names to the campaign. Targets stretch from Jask to Bushehr's vicinity to Kaman, the deepest strike map yet, with air defenses lighting up near Tehran. Brandon Weichert read the response speed as the tell: retaliation that fast means the packages were pre-loaded, and an administration primed for something bigger than tit-for-tat. His deeper point hasn't moved. Washington keeps betting that economic strangulation collapses the regime, but 47 years of sanctions never buckled a government whose legitimacy was never economic. Iran can't blink because for Tehran this is existential; Washington won't blink because Trump reads any Iranian control of the strait as defeat. His World War One line hung over the night: nobody in 1914 called it a world war either. They called it the Third Balkan Crisis. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran’s cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure may be the opening move, not the endgame. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert warns that attacks on water, energy and telecom systems could be setting the stage for another round of escalation. He also thinks Trump may be trying to hold the line for the next six or seven weeks, with the midterms looming and Iran potentially looking to drag the U.S. into an “escalatory trap.” And here’s where things get interesting in Washington: talk of an early House recess over the Epstein files could give Trump more military wiggle room while Congress is away. Weichert doesn’t think Trump is permanently committed to de-escalation. “I think this is to buy time.” Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran’s cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure may be the opening move, not the endgame. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert warns that attacks on water, energy and telecom systems could be setting the stage for another round of escalation. He also thinks Trump may be trying to hold the line for the next six or seven weeks, with the midterms looming and Iran potentially looking to drag the U.S. into an “escalatory trap.” And here’s where things get interesting in Washington: talk of an early House recess over the Epstein files could give Trump more military wiggle room while Congress is away. Weichert doesn’t think Trump is permanently committed to de-escalation. “I think this is to buy time.” Brandon Weichert

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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Washington reportedly gave Iran until tomorrow to declare Hormuz open and toll-free, and to admit the ship attacks were a mistake That's the Axios framing: a public statement by Saturday, every channel open, no fees, plus an acknowledgment that "they screwed up," with one official warning it won't be a great day for Tehran otherwise. Larry Johnson rated the odds of compliance in two flavors: no way, and no way in hell. The surrounding picture is pure contradiction. Trump posts that Iran asked to keep talking and the ceasefire is over, in the same breath. Talks are reported for Islamabad, Switzerland, AND Jordan simultaneously while Iran's side denies any of it. And per Larry's sourcing, redeployment orders keep getting countermanded, units sent home now told to stay, someone randomly pulling levers in the control booth. He expects strikes within 24 hours. The political ceiling in Tehran was set by Khomeini's own grandson this week: anyone negotiating peace with America is a traitor, because the killing planted an enmity that never goes away. One detail says how seriously the threat reports landed: per the WSJ, Trump flew home from Ankara on the OLD Air Force One, because the Qatari-donated jet lacks the defenses for an elevated-risk flight. SonofNewAmericanRevolution

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Washington reportedly gave Iran until tomorrow to declare Hormuz open and toll-free, and to admit the ship attacks were a mistake That's the Axios framing: a public statement by Saturday, every channel open, no fees, plus an acknowledgment that "they screwed up," with one official warning it won't be a great day for Tehran otherwise. Larry Johnson rated the odds of compliance in two flavors: no way, and no way in hell. The surrounding picture is pure contradiction. Trump posts that Iran asked to keep talking and the ceasefire is over, in the same breath. Talks are reported for Islamabad, Switzerland, AND Jordan simultaneously while Iran's side denies any of it. And per Larry's sourcing, redeployment orders keep getting countermanded, units sent home now told to stay, someone randomly pulling levers in the control booth. He expects strikes within 24 hours. The political ceiling in Tehran was set by Khomeini's own grandson this week: anyone negotiating peace with America is a traitor, because the killing planted an enmity that never goes away. One detail says how seriously the threat reports landed: per the WSJ, Trump flew home from Ankara on the OLD Air Force One, because the Qatari-donated jet lacks the defenses for an elevated-risk flight. SonofNewAmericanRevolution

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The biggest threat to a U.S. aircraft carrier may not be sinking it, it may be hitting it hard enough that it can’t fight. Only 40% of the destroyers protecting American carriers are reportedly combat-ready right now. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert says the problem is straightforward: fewer ready destroyers means less protection, while incoming missiles are already getting close enough to force evasive maneuvers. As Weichert says, Trump could lose an aircraft carrier without it ever going under. A ballistic missile hit could leave the ship badly damaged and combat ineffective. And that could be enough. One strike doesn’t have to sink a carrier to take it out of the war. If the damage is severe enough, the ship could be sidelined for two or even three years. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The biggest threat to a U.S. aircraft carrier may not be sinking it, it may be hitting it hard enough that it can’t fight. Only 40% of the destroyers protecting American carriers are reportedly combat-ready right now. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert says the problem is straightforward: fewer ready destroyers means less protection, while incoming missiles are already getting close enough to force evasive maneuvers. As Weichert says, Trump could lose an aircraft carrier without it ever going under. A ballistic missile hit could leave the ship badly damaged and combat ineffective. And that could be enough. One strike doesn’t have to sink a carrier to take it out of the war. If the damage is severe enough, the ship could be sidelined for two or even three years. Brandon Weichert

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‼️🇺🇲🇮🇷 BIG | The deployment of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) in the Middle East indicates that Donald Trump is likely to soon authorize a highly risky and potentially bloody ground operation against Iran, which would also be accompanied by a significant escalation in aerial bombardment. At the same time, additional Marine units and airborne forces are expected to be deployed to the region, carrying out rapid maneuver operations aimed at seizing Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf, as well as potentially the port of Bandar Abbas and other strategic targets. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

‼️🇺🇲🇮🇷 BIG | The deployment of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU) in the Middle East indicates that Donald Trump is likely to soon authorize a highly risky and potentially bloody ground operation against Iran, which would also be accompanied by a significant escalation in aerial bombardment. At the same time, additional Marine units and airborne forces are expected to be deployed to the region, carrying out rapid maneuver operations aimed at seizing Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf, as well as potentially the port of Bandar Abbas and other strategic targets. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's latest attack struck U.S military facilities in Kuwait and the UAE, but the timing may be more important than the attack itself. The previous U.S-Iran exchange had effectively stopped. Washington decided not to retaliate against Iran's last barrage and reports suggest Trump’s team is actively trying to avoid another major escalation before the midterms. Iran attacked again anyway. And to understand why, look at what Washington is doing behind the scenes. The U.S is intensifying its economic campaign against Tehran, reportedly instructing embassies around the world to pressure governments to cut Iranian trade, with countries, companies and individuals potentially threatened with sanctions or a loss of access to the dollar system. Meanwhile, the UAE has become an important partner in Washington's attempt to keep oil moving through Hormuz and tighten the economic screws on Iran. Then Iran hits U.S-linked military infrastructure in the UAE and Kuwait. That makes these strikes look less like retaliation for something America already did and more like a warning about what comes next: If Washington turns the Gulf into the infrastructure for an economic war against Iran, Tehran may turn that same infrastructure into the battlefield. And that creates a serious problem for Trump's apparent pivot from military war to economic war. Sanctions were supposed to provide a way of squeezing Iran without another major exchange of missiles. Iran may be signalling that it doesn't intend to let America separate the two. Brandon Weichert

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's latest attack struck U.S military facilities in Kuwait and the UAE, but the timing may be more important than the attack itself. The previous U.S-Iran exchange had effectively stopped. Washington decided not to retaliate against Iran's last barrage and reports suggest Trump’s team is actively trying to avoid another major escalation before the midterms. Iran attacked again anyway. And to understand why, look at what Washington is doing behind the scenes. The U.S is intensifying its economic campaign against Tehran, reportedly instructing embassies around the world to pressure governments to cut Iranian trade, with countries, companies and individuals potentially threatened with sanctions or a loss of access to the dollar system. Meanwhile, the UAE has become an important partner in Washington's attempt to keep oil moving through Hormuz and tighten the economic screws on Iran. Then Iran hits U.S-linked military infrastructure in the UAE and Kuwait. That makes these strikes look less like retaliation for something America already did and more like a warning about what comes next: If Washington turns the Gulf into the infrastructure for an economic war against Iran, Tehran may turn that same infrastructure into the battlefield. And that creates a serious problem for Trump's apparent pivot from military war to economic war. Sanctions were supposed to provide a way of squeezing Iran without another major exchange of missiles. Iran may be signalling that it doesn't intend to let America separate the two. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 America's oil reserve just hit its lowest level since 1983, on the same night Washington readied its biggest attack of the war Brandon Weichert came on hours after the reports broke, and his warning cuts deeper than the weekend strike plans. Iran has stated one red line consistently since March: hit our energy at scale and we answer in kind across the region. Washington is now walking toward that line with a nearly empty cupboard, because the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just fell to 308 MILLION barrels, its lowest since 1983, after eighteen straight weekly declines. Then it gets darker. He shares the last warning a legendary CIA officer gave him before passing away, about a handful of gunmen and the American power grid, and his own new reporting on a Navy submarine readiness exercise that did not go well. He says allies everywhere are relearning Kissinger's old line that "to be a friend of America is fatal." The strikes may start this weekend. The bill arrives either way. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 America's oil reserve just hit its lowest level since 1983, on the same night Washington readied its biggest attack of the war Brandon Weichert came on hours after the reports broke, and his warning cuts deeper than the weekend strike plans. Iran has stated one red line consistently since March: hit our energy at scale and we answer in kind across the region. Washington is now walking toward that line with a nearly empty cupboard, because the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just fell to 308 MILLION barrels, its lowest since 1983, after eighteen straight weekly declines. Then it gets darker. He shares the last warning a legendary CIA officer gave him before passing away, about a handful of gunmen and the American power grid, and his own new reporting on a Navy submarine readiness exercise that did not go well. He says allies everywhere are relearning Kissinger's old line that "to be a friend of America is fatal." The strikes may start this weekend. The bill arrives either way. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

365,950 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸🇹🇷 Turkey is finishing its own fifth-generation fighter, and the road there runs straight through Washington The chain is documented. Ankara wanted more Patriot batteries after the 2015 Russian jet shootdown and Washington declined. Turkey bought S-400s instead. That purchase got Turkey thrown out of the F-35 program in 2019. Turkey answered by building KAAN, which cleared ground testing last month with engine work the only piece left. Now the US is reportedly moving to bring Ankara back into F-35, and the timing tells you who benefits. Cut off a country with a real industrial base and it builds the thing anyway, on its own terms, with your competitors as customers. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇹🇷 Turkey is finishing its own fifth-generation fighter, and the road there runs straight through Washington The chain is documented. Ankara wanted more Patriot batteries after the 2015 Russian jet shootdown and Washington declined. Turkey bought S-400s instead. That purchase got Turkey thrown out of the F-35 program in 2019. Turkey answered by building KAAN, which cleared ground testing last month with engine work the only piece left. Now the US is reportedly moving to bring Ankara back into F-35, and the timing tells you who benefits. Cut off a country with a real industrial base and it builds the thing anyway, on its own terms, with your competitors as customers. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

79,468 views • 1 month ago

🚨 BREAKING: Iran could reportedly strike a deal with President Trump as soon as TODAY to stop hostilities Until it becomes official, Trump is full-steam ahead on DECIMATING Iran and bridge-power plant day is tomorrow 🔥 "Iran and the U.S. have received a plan to end hostilities. This is a framework that was put together by Pakistan. It reportedly includes an immediate ceasefire followed by a comprehensive agreement." "The White House, they're telling Fox this morning that the president has not signed off on this and that Operation Epic Fury continues." "Of course, all the success of this mission over the weekend came with a renewed warning from the president that bridges and power plants will be targeted tomorrow if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened."

🚨 BREAKING: Iran could reportedly strike a deal with President Trump as soon as TODAY to stop hostilities Until it becomes official, Trump is full-steam ahead on DECIMATING Iran and bridge-power plant day is tomorrow 🔥 "Iran and the U.S. have received a plan to end hostilities. This is a framework that was put together by Pakistan. It reportedly includes an immediate ceasefire followed by a comprehensive agreement." "The White House, they're telling Fox this morning that the president has not signed off on this and that Operation Epic Fury continues." "Of course, all the success of this mission over the weekend came with a renewed warning from the president that bridges and power plants will be targeted tomorrow if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened."

Eric Daugherty

546,280 views • 5 months ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump may sign the Hormuz deal, but only because he needs a ceasefire more than he can afford to admit Reports suggest Iran and Oman are close to finalising a new shipping arrangement through the Strait. According to geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert, it's a great deal for Iran, and a terrible one for Trump. And Trump will probably agree to it because he may no longer have a better option. Brandon believes the White House is running into three realities at the same time. America has burned through an enormous number of precision missiles, energy markets remain vulnerable every time Hormuz is threatened, and the midterms are getting closer. That combination, he argues, leaves Trump needing an off-ramp... fast. The emerging agreement reportedly gives Tehran oversight of shipping, and could even allow it to charge vessels for passage. If that happens, Brandon argues it won't just be another diplomatic compromise; it will signal something much bigger: The end of the maritime order the U.S built after World War II. For decades, global trade rested on one assumption: The U.S Navy would keep strategic waterways open. Brandon believes those days are over. Regional powers are increasingly setting the rules in their own neighbourhoods, and Hormuz could simply be the first major example. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump may sign the Hormuz deal, but only because he needs a ceasefire more than he can afford to admit Reports suggest Iran and Oman are close to finalising a new shipping arrangement through the Strait. According to geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert, it's a great deal for Iran, and a terrible one for Trump. And Trump will probably agree to it because he may no longer have a better option. Brandon believes the White House is running into three realities at the same time. America has burned through an enormous number of precision missiles, energy markets remain vulnerable every time Hormuz is threatened, and the midterms are getting closer. That combination, he argues, leaves Trump needing an off-ramp... fast. The emerging agreement reportedly gives Tehran oversight of shipping, and could even allow it to charge vessels for passage. If that happens, Brandon argues it won't just be another diplomatic compromise; it will signal something much bigger: The end of the maritime order the U.S built after World War II. For decades, global trade rested on one assumption: The U.S Navy would keep strategic waterways open. Brandon believes those days are over. Regional powers are increasingly setting the rules in their own neighbourhoods, and Hormuz could simply be the first major example. Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

273,301 views • 1 month ago