By Yiannis Damellos
September 7, 2027
Illustration: IntellAIgence
The bombs are falling on tankers now, and International Trade is taking the hit. So, who benefits if the global economy becomes more fragmented?
What is this battlefield coming to? Tankers have now become retaliatory targets. That goes far beyond the Strait of Hormuz. A missile fired at a tanker does not stop when the smoke clears. It travels through people's grief, to begin with, and also through insurance rates, freight costs, oil prices, factory costs, and supermarket shelves, before it reaches your living room. Brent is already approaching $100 a barrel, diesel prices have reached record highs, and shipping through Hormuz has fallen sharply as operators reassess the risk. This is the domino effect of modern war: attack a ship, disrupt a route, raise the cost of moving energy, raise the cost of moving everything else. But there is a larger question here. What happens to globalization when the world's most important trade routes become potential battlefields? And who benefits from the world this war is creating?
