The Washington Roundtable discusses the global consequences of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz with Edward Fishman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of the book “Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare.” The group explores how Donald Trump’s embrace of economic weapons such as tariffs, along with his military escalation in Iran, has upended the world’s economy and weakened his popularity at home. “I think we have not seen the worst of this war yet,” Fishman says. “I don’t see how anyone can view that as a victory, and we all know Donald Trump doesn’t like to look like a loser.”

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This week’s reading:

“Trump and the Iran Deal That Wasn’t,” by Susan B. Glasser
“Donald Trump’s Triumphal Arch and the Architecture of Autocracy,” by Adam Gopnik
“How Big a Threat Are Iranian-Backed Cyberattacks?,” by Sue Halpern
“How Beijing Views the War in Iran,” by Isaac Chotiner

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