Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's emphasis was on capability, while US Vice President JD Vance spoke of commitments. Within hours of Vance's remarks, US President Donald Trump announced he was ordering a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a significant escalation after failed negotiations with Iran. The contrast reflects different styles and different stages of the same unfolding process. Netanyahu's speech was designed to counter opposition leaders' claims that the war had yielded little to show for it. Vance's words were delivered in an international audience watching a diplomatic process that had just stalled. The two statements were part of a sequence from military action to an attempted diplomatic consolidation that has stalled.