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Greetings from Tyler, The Strait of Hormuz is a long ways away. Some reports say we have control and the others, who knows? We’re involved in two wars, or slightly involved. We know why. The Gulf is essential for a good bit of the oil out of the Middle East. Zelensky, well that’s another story altogether. I don’t…
