The Americans are in even deeper trouble over the war they've started in the Middle East.

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Yesterday, Donald Trump said he was going to Blockade the Strait of Hormuz to put intolerable pressure on Iran.

Today, a Chinese tanker, the Rich Starry, bobbed happily through the waterway carrying 250,000 barrels of methanol, and the US did not dare to lay a finger on it.

Yet again, the gap between the grandiose swagger of the president - the threat to destroy an entire civilisation, the claims of divine power - and the actual world around him, is brutally exposed.

But before we take refuge in mocking laughter at the........

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