“Let’s state what nobody dares to print: the military movements in the Middle East have nothing to do with Israel. They have everything to do with China. The Strait of Hormuz is not a neighborhood squabble—it is a trigger point on the jugular of the world’s second-largest economy. And the United States is now openly, proudly, and systematically arranging a position from which those routes can be interfered with, choked, or, when the order comes, **cut clean through**.” -- Tee Ashby