Douglas Macgregor reached for that precedent within minutes.
The Turks held the Dardanelles after defeat, just raised Bosphorus fees 15 PERCENT, and nobody debates it.
Iran, he says flatly, keeps the Gulf the same way, and there will be no negotiation over tolls.
His harder claim: no negotiation over anything.
Nobody signs a document ending this.
It runs until the last missile flies or the bond market breaks, and the experts he trusts call 5 percent on the ten-year financial Armageddon. It's climbing.
Great powers, he reminded me, always end this way.
Romans in Britain, the British everywhere: everything mortgaged to vanity, then gone overnight because staying became unaffordable.
On tonight's mystery blasts, reported across Iran's coast then DENIED by everyone, he offered a rule from 1991, when his green troops mistook A-10 chaff for a bombardment: the first report is always wrong.
And the thread nobody's watching: he reads the F-35 offer to Erdogan as payment to keep Turkey out of this war, while Smotrich publicly talks of preparing for military action against Ankara.
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