How American Imperial and Colonial Mindset led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz?
How American Imperial and Colonial Mindset led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz? Is there an exit strategy? When the Strait of Hormuz closes, you don’t need to be a military analyst to understand what just happened. You only need to understand what the world runs on. Oil. Gas. Shipping lanes. Insurance rates. Container schedules. Energy prices that decide whether factories hum or go dark, whether households heat or freeze, whether governments fall or survive. This is why serious analysts have long argued that Hormuz is not a “threat” Iran invented for propaganda; it is a structural red line that the U.S. and its allies have treated as a bluff because they could not imagine a regional actor actually pulling the lever that exposes a vulnerability: dependence. And this is why what we are watching now is a massive U.S. miscalculation that will be studied later the way the Iraq invasion is studied today, with the same disbelief that decision-makers could be so arrogant, so blind, and ...