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BREAKING: U.S. and Iran Exchange Fire in Strait of Hormuz

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller breaks down the rapidly escalating confrontation between the U.S. and Iran after Iranian forces targeted American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. responded with new strikes on Iranian military assets. Despite active combat at sea, Donald Trump insists the ceasefire is still intact, even calling the exchange a “love tap.” Tim gives his take on the administration’s contradictory messaging, global oil markets, and America’s role in the region.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the Bullwark here. We got some breaking news. The war is back on.

0:04.7

Well, for those of us who can observe reality and for whom words have meaning and actions have

0:12.3

meaning, the war is very clearly back on, seeing as we are firing at Iranian ships and assets,

0:19.6

and Iran was firing at our ships. To me, that is a war

0:23.9

by any definition. The administration is desperate to describe it as anything other than that.

0:30.7

But we have kinetic action, whatever you want to call it, this evening over in the Strait of Hormuz.

0:39.4

I want to just kind of give you a little timeline of what happened and run it down here.

0:44.2

We're taping this at about 8 o'clock Eastern time.

0:48.7

So, you know, if there are ongoing developments, we'll obviously be monitoring them along with you.

0:53.7

And before I actually read all of this, subscribe to the feed if you hadn't.

0:57.4

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0:59.5

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1:01.5

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1:02.5

All right, Jen Griffin, the last real reporter at Fox News, posted this a little bit ago,

1:08.0

new U.S. military just carried out strikes on Iran's

1:12.7

Keshem Port and Bandar Abbas, senior U.S. officials tell her. They also told her this is not

1:20.4

the restarting of the war. One thing that these guys are very good about messaging-wise is

1:26.8

telling people that they're not in the war. They've not been very good about messaging wise is telling people that they're not in the war.

1:29.7

They've not been very good about explaining their objectives.

1:32.4

They haven't been very good about explaining their strategies.

1:34.9

They haven't been very good about using traditionally grammatically correct sentences,

1:42.1

you know, subject verb predicate.

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