Trump has declared the so-called memorandum of understanding signed about a month ago a dead letter.
An early period of World War II was known as “the phony war.”
What we may be witnessing now in the U.S.-Iran war is the end of a “phony peace.”
The nearly five-month-long conflict has featured a couple of sham cease-fires, each marked by supposed Iranian pledges to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that came to nothing.
With the Iranians firing on shipping on the strait again, Trump has declared the so-called memorandum of understanding signed about a month ago a dead letter. After lifting sanctions on Iranian oil and ending the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, Trump has reinstituted both. He maintains ...
