The least of words can relieve distress, and for it and because of it, wars ignite, so calamities crowd in a "deep sea covered by waves, above which are waves, above which are clouds, darknesses one above another," and the world chokes, markets are disturbed, supplies dwindle, and Trump, who entered the war without calculations, wishes for countries to extend a helping hand to him to ensure the flow of movement in the waters of the strait, which looks like a bottleneck, to which ships flock from every deep ravine, awaiting a traffic signal.Alongside "Hormuz," which connects the Arabian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, two other straits in the region are no less important; the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, and the Strait of Gibraltar, which connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.Trump does not seem to be bothered by the closure of the strait, perhaps the opposite, as he considers the closure of Hormuz to hit the Chinese economy, which relies on about 40% of Iranian oil supplies, while the United States has large quantities of oil produced from its fields in Alaska and elsewhere, as well as what it gets from its neighbor Canada, in addition to Venezuelan oil which is now under its control.Trump goes to strike "Kharg" Island in response to the closure of Hormuz, while he vainly tries to form the nucleus of an international alliance to help him open the strait, which seems to be Iran's strong card to expand the area of impact and double the costs on global markets, to push affected countries to pressure Trump to end the war.Striking "Kharg" Island brings to mind the tanker war during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, which would push everyone to look for an emergency exit to limit the repercussions of the war.When the waters in Hormuz are disturbed, the passages in Bab al-Mandab and Gibraltar tremble, for geography is indivisible in the calculations of the "arc of fire" open to more destruction.





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Hormuz.. The Strait and the Predicament!