119 HJRES 153
To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Republic of Cuba that have not been authorized by Congress.
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Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
2026-03-24
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Iran's Hormuz harassment is deterrence reconsolidation, not spoiling — the pause creates an asymmetric window Iran will use more effectively than Washington.
The structural logic here is unambiguous: a regional power with a geographic chokepoint does not abandon that chokepoint during a pause in hostilities — it uses the pause to reconsolidate control. The IRGC warning shots at Hormuz within 48 hours of the US halt are not a provocation; they are Iran reasserting the one lever that cannot be bombed into irrelevance without closing the strait entirely, which no party can afford. Netanyahu's trip to Washington complicates the American position further — Israel has its own escalation calculus on Iran's nuclear program that does not perfectly align with a Trump administration that paused strikes to create 'diplomatic space.' The structural forces here predate this administration and will outlast it: Iran has been managing Hormuz coercion as a deterrent tool for four decades.
2026-07-27
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