On Tuesday, Trump announced that the US Navy had removed or detonated every mine in the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz. Zero tolerance policy. Space Force watching every square inch. His words. That same Tuesday afternoon, an oil tanker was hit by a projectile and disabled about nine nautical miles off the Omani coast. And here's the number nobody's putting in the headline: before the war, roughly 130 ships a day moved through that strait. This week the count was fourteen. Iran's deputy foreign minister rejected the claim outright, saying nobody except Iran knows where the mines actually are. Meanwhile Iran and Oman sat down separately and started drawing their own shipping corridor. You can clear a road. You can post about it. But if nobody drives on it — what exactly did you win? 🎵
