While the three-carrier strike force maintains air supremacy over the Strait, a different kind of crisis is unfolding in the boardrooms of London and Singapore.
Lloyd’s of London has officially designated the entire Persian Gulf as a ‘War Risk Zone,’ sending insurance premiums for oil tankers soaring by over five hundred percent in a single week. For many independent shipping lines, the cost of transit now exceeds the value of the cargo itself. Even with the protection of Operation Southern Spear, the mere presence of thousands of ‘Ghost Mines’ has created an invisible financial blockade. This ‘Insurance Wall’ is effectively doing what the IRGC’s navy could not: halting the flow of global energy by making it economically impossible to sail. As tankers begin to drop anchor in the Gulf of Oman, refusing to enter the Strait, the global supply chain is starting to buckle under the weight of a war that hasn’t even fully begun.
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