(Off-Guardian) Since the US/Israel began their war – sorry, their "targeted, limited, combat operation" – hard facts have been hard to come by.

In a more than usually cloudy combat narrative, we've been told that Iran is winning AND losing, depending who you ask. It's a regime change war, but also it isn't. Various Iranian officials have been killed, and some came back. Netanyahu was briefly dead, too. There was talk of a tactical nuke.

Nowhere is this fog of war thicker than in the Strait of Hormuz, about which it is seemingly impossible to get a *ahem* strait answer.

The coverage is so fast-paced and contradictory it conjures up images of an elaborate game of "yes, and…" being played by members of an improv group who have totally different goals for the story, and secretly hate each other.