DONARUDO
WEEK 566 / 583 — Open
Vol. 8 ·  Chapter 59 — Hormuz · Apr 14 – Apr 20, 2026
Manga panel 1 of 6, Week 566 “Open”: Wednesday he is opening the Strait permanently, and he is doing it for everyone, and there will be a big fat hug waiting for him.
APRIL 15.
China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them, also - And the World. This situation will never happen again.…
Manga panel 2 of 6, Week 566 “Open”: Thursday two countries that have not spoken in thirty-four years agree to ten days of quiet, and he reports it the way a broker reports a signing.
I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel.…
Manga panel 3 of 6, Week 566 “Open”: Friday morning, all in capitals: the Strait is fully open and ready for full passage. Thank you.
“IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE. THANK YOU!”
Manga panel 4 of 6, Week 566 “Open”: By Friday afternoon the alliance is on the telephone offering help, and is told to stay away unless it wants to load up with oil.
Now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help. I TOLD THEM TO STAY AWAY…
Manga panel 5 of 6, Week 566 “Open”: Sunday the water is fired into — bullets aimed at a French ship and a British freighter, four days after the agreement.
Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz — A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom.…
Manga panel 6 of 6, Week 566 “Open”: And that night a nine-hundred-foot Iranian freighter tries the blockade in the Gulf of Oman and is stopped, in his words, right in its tracks.
Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them.…
THE STRAIT IS OPENED AND FIRED INTO IN THE SAME WEEK.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The week the Strait opens. Wednesday he is doing it for China too, and for the world, and there will be a big fat hug waiting in a few weeks. Thursday two countries that have not spoken in thirty-four years agree to ten days of quiet. Friday morning the announcement arrives in capital letters — fully open, ready for full passage, thank you — and by afternoon the alliance is calling to offer help and being told to stay away. Then Sunday: bullets in the water, aimed at a French ship and a British freighter, and a nine-hundred-foot cargo ship that tried the blockade and was stopped in its tracks.

Readers' Corner

Letters from the readership on Week 566. Pick a pen name — no account needed.

Opening the mailbag…