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Hormuz As America’s Suez – With One Crucial Difference

Britain in 1956 had Eisenhower to force a reckoning. Washington in 2026 has no one.

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Adrian Monck
Apr 23, 2026
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  • Indian television asked me seven questions this week about whether Hormuz is America’s Suez and what a post-US order might look like.

  • They’re the right questions, but they assume a successor is waiting in the wings: one power out, another one in, a tag-team relay.

  • Britain in 1956 was bullied out of Suez by Washington, which held the global purse s…

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