Hormuz Drawback: How To Impose Prices With out Incurring Threat

The USS Tripoli is rapidly steaming in direction of the Center East with its 2,500 embarked Marines. In the meantime, site visitors by way of the Strait of Hormuz has slowed to a trickle, oil costs are rising worldwide, and international locations are hesitant to commit a portion of their navies to supply convoy escort by way of this 20-mile-wide nautical chokepoint. It is a bedeviling downside that Iran is utilizing to impose prices on others.