Chad Scott

And the U.S.

began supposedly moving ships through the Strait under this Project Freedom.

U.S.

Central Command, CENTCOM, said two U.S.

flagged merchant ships successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz with a U.S.

Navy destroyer.

Interestingly, the

The original construct for this was for neutral ships, but U.S.

flag ships are not neutral.

So a bit of a misconception on what's going on there.

Shortly after those ships went through, a South Korean-operated cargo ship called the HMM Namu was hit by an explosion, likely came from either a drone or a missile out of Iran.

There's no casualties, but Trump publicly blamed Iran and said South Korea should join the war now because of this.

There's a new strategy coming out of Iran.

They haven't said anything specific as of right now to this.

They're trying to create this air of chaos.

They're trying to make it seem like they don't want to directly engage with the United States Navy, obviously, but they also want to make it so the shipping doesn't go through.

And they're saying that all of these countries, regardless of where you stand, need to follow these new Iranian maritime rules.

And this is kind of their new construct for how they're going to present a permanent structure within the Strait of Hormuz.

And they're saying that if you don't follow that, you're going to be stopped.

You're going to get fired upon.