Forget Hormuz: The Strait of Malacca Moves $3,500,000,000,000 In Goods A Year. Close It and Watch the Global Economy Crash

Forget Hormuz: The Strait of Malacca Moves $3,500,000,000,000 In Goods A Year. Close It and Watch the Global Economy Crash

In mid-March, the USS Tripoli and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit threaded through the Strait of Malacca heading west — an American warship and a ship-borne MEU moving through one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth, bound for the Iranian theater. Local media in Singapore filmed them as they passed. Shipspotters tracked them on AIS. Within days, they were in the Indian Ocean, en route to join Operation Epic Fury. Nobody much noticed the ir…