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Edition · Saturday, 18 April 2026

What happened, the forces beneath it, why it matters — then your turn.

01 · Lesson · why it matters

The 21-Mile Channel That Moves Oil Markets

Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is open during a ceasefire, and oil prices plunge. Why does a channel you could swim across control a fifth of the world's oil? This is a lesson about chokepoints—geographic bottlenecks where entire systems concentrate their flows, creating points of maximum vulnerability.

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