While headlines focus on the vessel, the attack is a strategic probe of the global economy's most critical chokepoint. The immediate second-order effect won't be military, but a spike in maritime insurance that acts as a de facto tax on all Gulf energy exports. The key indicator to watch isn't naval deployments, but how London's insurance market prices this new risk.
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