...ions.The 82-year-old Republican wrote on a social network banned in Russia.:"Instead of fighting forever for a narrow passage 21 miles wide, we will cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear explosions and you get a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez Canal and protected from Iranian attacks."The idea emerged against the backdrop of escalation in the Middle East, the de facto blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil and liquefied gas supp...