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Black Fort LLC — Strategic Intelligence Brief — Edition 172

Black Fort Strategic Intelligence Brief  ·  Edition 172

Black Fort LLC — Strategic Intelligence Brief — Edition 172

Why Ranked: Of everything that moved today, this is the only item representing a confirmed, structural change in who controls a piece of the global energy system — not an escalation within an existing chokepoint but the opening of a second one, with an immediate market and military footprint t…

  • Houthis complete takeover of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, opening a second front against global oil flows
  • Iran agrees to first Gulf talks since the war began, even as unclaimed strikes hit its coast again
  • Israel declares south Lebanon security zone complete after destroying Hezbollah’s Ali Taher tunnels

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