US does not have capacity to unilaterally open Strait of Hormuz: expert | ABC NEWS

Jared Mondschein from the US Studies Centre says Iran is leveraging its asymmetric advantages to deny US primacy over the Strait of Hormuz.
He says the current situation in the strait would come as a surprise to no-one and would have been the expected outcome for US military planners.
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