Four simultaneous conflicts and a fuel crisis suggest the adults traded the situation room for a Risk board.
Threatening to close a second maritime chokepoint because someone closed your first one is the geopolitical equivalent of flipping the Monopoly board.
▸ Wikipedia — Iran's military headquarters threatens to close the Red Sea in addition to the strait if the U.S. naval blockade continues. (Al Jazeera)The Navy now does airstrikes on drug boats in the eastern Pacific, because apparently every service branch wanted a piece of the action.
▸ Wikipedia — Three people are killed in an airstrike carried out by the United States Navy against an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific. (Reuters)When your ceasefire negotiation requires a military chief to personally fly to Tehran, the diplomacy has already failed.
▸ Wikipedia — A Pakistani delegation led by military chief Asim Munir arrives in Tehran, Iran, to facilitate the continuation of diplomacy between Iran and the United States. (Al Jazeera)