TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump has directed aides to prepare for a prolonged US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, potentially lasting months, after firing off a 4 am social media post asking Iran to “better get smart soon” and warning, “No more Mr nice guy.”
While the bizarre post -- showing a machine gun wielding Trump in aviator shades against a war backdrop, suggested more punitive military strikes in the offing, US policy, while escalatory in rhetoric, appears increasingly anchored in a grinding, open-ended strategy that stops short of all-out conflict.
