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Imagine waking up one morning to find that a tiny stretch of water, barely twenty-one miles wide at its narrowest point, has suddenly shut down. That is exactly what happened in February 2026 when military conflict paralyzed the Strait of Hormuz. We are not just talking about a minor delay; we are witnessing an unprecedented shock that has wiped nearly twenty percent of the world’s oil and LNG supply right off the map. To put that into perspective, past crises like the 1973 embargo caused a supply shortfall of about four to six percent. This current disruption is three to five times larger than anything we have seen in modern history. The numbers are staggering. Before the conflict, one hundred and twenty-nine vessels moved through the Strait every single day. By mid-March, that number plummeted to just four. That is a ninety-seven percent collapse in global shipping traffic. As those tankers vanished, Brent crude prices surged to one hundred and twenty-six dollars a barrel, with analysts warning we could see one hundred and fifty dollars if the status quo holds. T

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