Twenty-one days. That’s how much time until oil executives and industry experts estimate the economic and market fallout from the war will sharply escalate if the Strait of Hormuz isn’t reopened.

By closing the Strait, Iran has changed the war's strategic calculus. The conflict was started by the U.S. and Israel to disarm and dislodge the Iranian regime, but reopening the Strait of Hormuz has become the most urgent U.S. war aim. Time is not on America’s side.

Read my analysis “The Chokepoint of Hormuz” here: