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An attack on a Saudi pipeline has drawn a pointed assertion from former President Donald Trump. His claim: the United States maintains control over the Strait of Hormuz.
That argument and the incident that prompted it do not obviously resolve each other.
Trump offered the Hormuz statement directly in response to the pipeline incident, positioning American control over the waterway as the relevant context for what happened in Saudi Arabia.
The case for his framing is that control over the Strait carries real strategic weight, and attaching it to the pipeline attack is a way of placing U.S. power at the center of the regional response.
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