The illusion of a weightless, post-geographic world economy—and the chokepoint that exposes it
The global economy sells itself as weightless, an elegant lattice of algorithms, financial derivatives, satellites, and cloud servers humming beyond the reach of geography.
This story is comforting. It suggests resilience, redundancy, and control.
But it is also a lie. Beneath the abstractions, the modern world still runs on pressure points. It still breathes through arteries. And the most vulnerable of them all is a 21-mile-wide channel of water in West Asia: the Strait of Hormuz.
At its narrowest point, this corridor between Iran and Oman funnels…
Read the full article at ACTIVISTPOST.COM
