Remember Signalgate? It was quite the story, and worth revisiting now in light of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and its dire implications for the global economy. 

In March last year, Donald Trump’s then National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, somehow added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, to a Signal messaging group for senior government officials to discuss top secret military action against the Houthis in Yemen. The group included the Vice President J. D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, among others.

The Houthis are, of course, part of Tehran’s regional axis of resistance, and their attacks on ships had been disrupting maritime trade in and around the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, which leads up to the Suez Canal.

According to Hegseth, President Trump had issued a directive to ‘reopen the shipping lanes’, but the national security team appeared uncertain about whether or not to pause before going ahead with a strike. ‘I think we are making a mistake,’........

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