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Fascinating article!!!

“Trouble at the Pillars of Hercules: Morocco’s Mediterranean power play”

by Iason Athanasiadis in The Cradle on Substack

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“The sight of tens of thousands of Moroccans passing through Moroccan checkpoints to swim into a Spanish semi-enclave in late July eloquently demonstrated a more generalized breakdown in global security. An overstrained planet’s systems collapse generated waves of migrants who were in turn instrumentalized into a terse, geopolitical warning by the Kingdom of Morocco to its Spanish neighbor and historical rival that it has some powerful new friends”

https://open.substack.com/pub/thecradlemedia/p/choking-the-mediterranean-or-trouble

#Press #SocialMedia #Spain #Morocco #Israel #US #Ceita #Melilla #Iran #IranWar #ChokePoints #Hormuz #BabElMandab #Migrants #Eurasia #China #Gibraltar #GeoPolitics

Strait of Hormuz: Why the US and Iran are sailing in very different legal waters. #chokepoints #DonaldTrump #Iran #Maritimelaw #StraitofHormuz #StraitofHormuzblockade #TrumpAdministration #UNCLOS #UnitedNations #USIran #Waterways
https://iwpost.com/strait-of-hormuz-why-the-us-and-iran-are-sailing-in-very-different-legal-waters/?fsp_sid=13541

Hearing a lot about the #Houthis in #Yemen and wondering what parts of the country they currently control? Very little has changed since we published our February map:

https://www.polgeonow.com/2026/02/yemen-civil-war-map-2026-houthis-separatists-irg-al-qaeda.html

#IranWar #geopolitics #GulfOfAden #MiddleEast #chokepoints #RedSea #geography #maps #security #conflict #war @geography @geopolitics

"Why navies still matter in the age of drones", a well argued analysis from an expert: Sean Andrews (retired Royal Australian Navy Captain and currently a senior research fellow at the Strategy, Statecraft and Technology). A short and informative reading read:

Link:
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/why-navies-still-matter-in-the-age-of-drones/

#DroneWarfare #FleetPlatforms #Deterence #GunDiplomacy #TradeRoutes #ChokePoints #ShowingTheFlag #Alliances #MassEffects #Surveillance #Recon #CapitalCosts #Resilience #Logistcs #Adaptability #TechnologyLessons

Shipping Choke Points Raise Business Costs Even After The Iran War

A ship attacked near the Strait of Hormuz March 11 (Photo by Handout / ROYAL THAI NAVY /…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #chokepoints #chokepoint #Drones #Houthi #Iran #iranwar #Shipping
https://www.newsbeep.com/644750/

Every Despot Needs A Chokepoint

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/04/every-despot-needs-a-chokepoint/

- Corridors of Power: BRI, IMEC, and the Contest for the Emerging World Order

#BRI #IMEC #Corridors #Chokepoints #Connectivity #Geopolitics #GeoEconomics #WorldOrder #EconomicOrder #GlobalSouth

https://globalconnectivities.com/2026/05/corridors-bri-imec-contest-emerging-world-order/

- Between Chokepoints and Corridors: Connectivity, Competition, and the Future of Emerging World Order

#Chokepoints #Corridors #GlobalConnectivity #BRI #IMEC #Geopolitics #GeoEconomics #MiddleEast #Gulf #Hormuz #IndianOcean #EmergingWorldOrder

https://globalconnectivities.com/2026/04/between-chokepoints-corridors/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran. "These [food system] vulnerabilities are exacerbated by the use of just-in-time #supplychains & the funnelling of much of the world’s #trade through a number of #chokepoints. Some people have long warned that the strait of #Hormuz, alongside the #Suez canal, #Turkish straits, #Panama canal & straits of #Malacca, are critical chokepoints, whose obstruction would threaten the flow of #food, #fertiliser, #fuel & other crucial #agricultural #commodities."

https://theconversation.com/the-oil-price-surge-is-just-one-symptom-of-a-supply-chain-network-that-is-not-fit-for-this-age-of-global-tensions-277277. "This narrow corridor [the Strait of #Hormuz] is one of the world’s most #critical #chokepoints - around a 5th of the world’s #oil passes through the strait daily. Its sudden disruption represents a 'chokepoint failure' - a breakdown at a critical node that triggers cascading effects across #global #systems."

“The renminbi has a long way to go until it can match the dollar in terms of the depth and liquidity of U.S. capital markets and the ease of moving across borders. But its biggest impediment may be the character of the Chinese state: increasingly authoritarian and unconstrained by the rule of law. ”
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#usdollar #chokepoints #edwardfishman #china

these are the #chokepoints platform chokes consumer hooked on platform feeds business needs platform feeds shareholder grows platform numbs consumer … This is the algorithm it sucks me try … I‘m addicted to screens! #PainMagazine Wow. #music #industrial #birdsinrow #techno #ebm #punk #hardcore

Unos pocos kilómetros de agua controlan billones en comercio. Los #chokepoints son donde se juega el poder global. Entenderlos es entender la #geopolítica del futuro.

#España es líder en #serviciosmarítimos y #logísticos. Nuestra presencia en el #Indo-Pacífico no es solo militar: es económica, diplomática y estratégica. Porque entender los choke points es entender dónde se juega nuestro futuro comercial.📌 CODA FINAL: POR QUÉ LA UE SÍ HACE BIEN
La UE invierte billones en paneles solares, molinos

Debate sobre “autonomía estratégica” lleva décadas sin resolverse. Resultado: máxima exposición al riesgo de cierre de #chokepoints sin capacidad de respuesta.
❄️ EL FUTURO: ÁRTICO
El #deshielopolar abre nuevas rutas. El Paso del Noroeste reduce 40% la distancia Europa-Asia vs. Panamá. Pero: solo navegable 2-3 meses/año, falta infraestructura, costes de seguro altísimos. No será alternativa real hasta 2030-2040
🎯 CONCLUSIÓN
La #geografía sigue siendo importante en el siglo XXI. #geopolitica

Uso dual comercial-militar. En conflicto se activarían RESPUESTA ESTADOUNIDENSE
¿Por qué EEUU habla de “recuperar” Panamá y comprar Groenlandia? Simple: control de #chokepoints.
→ Panamá: 6% del comercio global, ruta crítica Asia-costa este USA. China controla puertos en ambos extremos (Hutchison Ports)
→#Groenlandia: acceso al Paso del Noroeste (ruta ártica emergente q reduce 40% distancia Europa-Asia). Quien controle Groenlandia controlará el choke point del futuro.

→ Djibouti: primera base militar china en el extranjero (2017), capacidad para 10,000 tropas, controla Bab el-Mandeb
→ #Myanmar: oleoductos desde costa hasta Yunnan, puerto de Kyaukpyu, permite importar #energía sin pasar por Malaca. India lo ve como un cerco
💭 EL GRAN DEBATE
China dice “Son proyectos comerciales legítimos bajo la Iniciativa de la Fruta y Ruta"
EEUU/India responden: “Es militarización encubierta para controlar #chokepoints”
Realidad: probablemente ambas.

We need to remind ourselves--Trump has never had a mandate:

“On November 8, 2016, just 77,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin delivered the presidency to Trump. The Obama team was in shock. One of the main reasons they had held back on punishing Putin for his interference in the election was their belief that Clinton would win. ”

Excerpt From
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman

#chokepoints #edwardfishman #books #russia #trump #clinton #Russianinterference #bookstodon

“It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire,” wrote Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Polish-born former U.S. national security advisor, in 1994. An Oxbridge don put it in less delicate terms: “With the Ukraine, Russia is a USA; without, she is a Canada—mostly snow.”

Excerpt From
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman

#chokepoints #edwardFishman #ukraine #russia

Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/

Pluralistic: It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment) (22 Sep 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/one-throat-to-choke/

Yes, sure, #oil. But also control of #shipping #chokepoints are the strategic assets being contested.

#StraitOfHormuz
#SuezCanal
#PanamaCanal
#StraitOfGibraltar
#StraitofMalacca
#BabEelMandeb
#CapeOfGoodHope
#BeringStrait

@TheConversationUS on the #US going #Hungary - maybe:

»Authoritarian populists tilt the democratic playing field to favor themselves and their personal and political interests. Subverting #democracy from the inside without violent repression allows leaders like #Orbán and #Trump to pretend they are democratic. This authoritarianism from within creates #chokepoints where the #opposition isn’t crushed, but it has a hard time breathing.«

https://theconversation.com/i-watched-hungarys-democracy-dissolve-into-authoritarianism-as-a-member-of-parliament-and-i-see-troubling-parallels-in-trumpism-and-its-appeal-to-workers-224930

Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech

(10 Dec 22) by Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)

‘there's another side to this playlistification of #feeds: playlists and other recommendation #algorithms are #chokepoints: they are a way to durably interpose a company between a creator and their audience. Where you have chokepoints, you get #chokepointcapitalism’

Read it. It’s informative, full of niftyficated neologisms, well-crafted

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/

@benmschmidt @sramsay @jacobeisenstein @maria_antoniak @TedUnderwood @tisjune:

#CriticalInfrastructreStudies !
“Chokepoints: Anthropologies of the Constricted Contemporary” 
doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019....
#anthropology #aiart #midjourney #academia @anthropology #chokepoints #circulation #globalisation #infrastructure #logistics

“Chokepoints: Anthropologies of the Constricted Contemporary” - Ashley Carse, Townsend Middleton, Jason Cons, Jatin Dua, Gabriela Valdivia & Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1696862

#anthropology #aiart #midjourney #academia @anthropology #chokepoints #circulation #globalisation #infrastructure #logistics