Historian Niall Ferguson: What is happening now [US-Iran war] is a bizarre echo of 1956.

In the Suez crisis, a Middle East war to force regime change ended up closing a strategic waterway and triggering economic blowback.

Now the US and Israel are fighting Iran, and Hormuz is… pic.twitter.com/hoEaN1gwIQ

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Historian Niall Ferguson: What is happening now [US-Iran war] is a bizarre echo of 1956. In the Suez crisis, a Middle East war to force regime change ended up closing a strategic waterway and triggering economic blowback. Now the US and Israel are fighting Iran, and Hormuz is

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