François Picard welcomes Peter Apps, International Defence Commentator, who writes a bi-weekly column for Reuters on nationwide safety, battle, worldwide affairs, and expertise. Fairly than casting the present state of US–Iran tensions as a binary shift between battle and peace, Apps outlines a extra fluid and unstable actuality, the place ceasefire and escalation unfold concurrently: “each (battle and negotiations) will maintain working.” On the coronary heart of this disaster, the Strait of Hormuz emerges not solely as a essential chokepoint for commerce and world transport, however as a battleground of narratives and notion, the place “either side are attempting to make it as opaque as potential.”
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