Three Chokepoints in One System: How Redundancy Became the Middle East's New Vulnerability

Read in isolation, today's news is a single, unattributed incident: UKMTO reports a projectile struck a vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz, starting a fire and forcing an evacuation, with Iranian state media saying one crew member died and three were injured (Reuters 2026; Anadolu Ajansı 2026). Read against the last six months, it is the latest data point in something considerably larger — and the framing that matters is not "what happened today" but "what happened to the workarounds."

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