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When Hormuz Closed
Prologue: The Strait Closes
The world always pretends surprise when history finally reaches its throat.
One morning the screens fill with the same narrow body of water. Anchors drop. Tankers wait. Traders stare into terminals as if numbers could pray. Admirals reappear on television. Men who have never loved a civilization begin speaking in clean abstractions about deterrence, escalation, leverage, corridors, stability, throughput. The language of empire is always managerial at the moment it is most blind. It names consequences before causes, symptoms before memory.
And there again, under the…
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