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Black Fort LLC — Strategic Intelligence Brief | Edition 53

Black Fort Strategic Intelligence Brief  ·  Edition 53

Black Fort LLC — Strategic Intelligence Brief | Edition 53

Iran’s formal institutionalization of Hormuz sovereignty — with active vessel seizures on the same day as the Trump-Xi communiqué — marks the transition from blockade-as-tactic to sovereignty-as-permanent-condition, a structural shift in the international law of the sea with casc…

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