Is a Permanent U.S. Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz Part of a Much Bigger Plan?

It has been said by many from the very start of the U.S.’s ‘Epic Fury’ war against Iran that no clear endgame was in sight whereby U.S. President Donald Trump could achieve his stated aims at the outset of the conflict. These were to change regime, permanently nullify Iran’s nuclear threat, destroy the country’s ballistic missile capabilities, and halt its support for terrorist proxies. It has also been said by many that Washington unaccountably failed to anticipate Iran’s blockade of the vital global transit…