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Things seem to be heating up again in the Straits of Hormuz.

Ship under attack, drones flying.

It's got big implications for the economy, inflation, maybe most important of all, will the United States and Iran go back to war?

To discuss all this and more, we're joined by regular Mug Debate contributor and Globe and Mail columnist, Andrew Coyne.

Hey, Andrew.

Good to be with you.

So, an eventful weekend.

We have this kind of rolling...

Set of policies and announcements and prognostications out of the White House.

The latest development of the last 72 hours seems to be the intention of the president to both maintain the blockade, but then also, Andrew, create a corridor or some form of safe passage for ships to come out and transit the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran seems to be reacting to this very negatively with attacks on a Korean ship.

ship and potentially looks like drones sent into the UAE and damaged to a UAE gas plant.

Where are we headed?

What's happening here?

Is this war any closer to ending or is it more likely to restart again?

Yeah, it's such an important point.

And that seems to be, in fact, what's happening today, Monday, as we record, maybe possibly one or two ships have gone through, but the majority are not weighing anchor in sailing.

And again, that's probably no small