Dictators are buying the map while US sleeps. Time for Trump to get real(ist)

Dictators are buying the map while US sleeps. Time for Trump to get real(ist)

Washington consistently misreads modern geopolitical conflict. While American defense planners obsess over hypothetical, high-technology set-piece wars in the Strait of Hormuz, revisionist powers quietly seize the physical architecture of global commerce. Ports, undersea cables, and maritime checkpoints now function as territorial annexation. By separating commercial infrastructure from national defense, Washington’s stovepiped bureaucracies all…