Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5. This week we are covering the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, historic elections in Hungary, polls in Bulgaria, Ukraine’s robot army, and the Baltic states’ principled stance against Russian aggression. So let’s get to it.
Hormuz opens and then shuts again: What a difference a week can make. Just a week ago, US-Iran talks in Pakistan failed to produce a breakthrough for the Iran war. Trump then announced a counter-blockade of Iranian ports to Iran’s blockade of the vital Strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war. And this past week, since the US blockade went into effect, Iran first announced that the Strait of Hormuz was completely free for civilian and cargo traffic. It linked this to the now-announced ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
