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BumRushDaShow

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4. "it will never give up its newly given power, control of Hormuz."

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #2)

Mon May 25, 2026, 09:29 AM

20 hrs ago

And not just operational control, but they are now setting up a whole lucrative "toll" infrastructure to be administered by the newly formed "Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA)", to make money from its assertion of that control.

This never would have happened if this farcical lark of an invasion hadn't happened.

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