Russia's UN envoy says Hormuz navigation 'ruined' by US
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
Russia's UN envoy Mikhail Ulyanov posted on X criticizing US policy on the Strait of Hormuz, arguing that Washington wants freedom of navigation there while having caused its disruption through its own military action against Iran. He said the US now appears to be trying to fix that self-inflicted problem by continuing the conflict rather than ending it.
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Moscow lecturing anyone about the logical consistency of military interventions is rich given its own back catalogue, but a stopped clock and all that — the observation that you can't bomb a strait open and then complain it's closed does track. Everyone in this dispute has a war to justify and an audience to perform it for.