The recent fall of the Yemeni city of Mokha and its strategic port, followed immediately by the Houthi militia’s invasion of Mayun Island in the middle of the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, signal a permanent shift in global maritime security. This coordinated maritime encirclement, cementing its strategic weight across global shipping corridors, directly mirrors the Ottoman fleet’s siege of the Malacca Strait in 1569, which successfully strangled trade with the global empires of Spain, Genoa, Portugal a
Chokepoint diplomacy weaponizing maritime geography
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