There's something nobody is saying out loud: the Strait of Hormuz is not just a shipping route, it's the trigger of a global economy that spent decades pretending it didn't depend on a single corridor 33 kilometres wide. Now that corridor is blocked, the price of fuel we pay in Luanda, London or Lima is part of exactly the same chess game that Trump and Tehran are playing with threats to "erase civilizations" and 10-point counterproposals. The war is far away. The bill arrived everywhere.
What is fascinating, and deeply unsettling, is that neither side seems to actually want to close the deal. Iran wants the war to end before opening the strait. The US wants the strait open before talking peace. It's a negotiation about who blinks first, while the world foots the bill. Pakistan is stuck in the middle trying to mediate two countries that barely speak to each other directly. And China proposed a five-point plan that nobody cited more than once.
What's your read on this? Is there a real diplomatic way out, or is it just a matter of time before one side runs out of patience?
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