, Columnist
Britain Doesn’t Need Another Suez Crisis
An ill-planned military operation in a vital global shipping lane and a mistaken gamble on Washington’s response. Sound familiar?
Britain can’t seem to get it strait these days.
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So much for Britannia ruling the waves.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will spend her last days in office working out how to secure the release of the Stena Impero, a British-flagged oil-products tanker seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz last week.