Six months into an unresolved conflict with Iran, President Trump has moved beyond the language of military strategy into something older and more unsettling — the language of territorial conquest. By declaring the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's seaborne oil flows, to be American territory, Trump has transformed a blockade into a claim, and a claim into a question the international order has not yet answered. History has long warned that when great powers name the sea as their own, the world rarely stays quiet.
Trump declares Strait of Hormuz 'American territory' amid Iran blockade
Potential humanitarian impact through economic strangulation of Iran and disruption to global shipping, though no direct casualties reported in this account.
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