Military strategists have long invoked the concept of "battlefield opacity" — the disorienting ambiguity and cascading miscalculations that armed conflict invariably generates. Yet this phenomenon extends well beyond the theater of combat, manifesting with equal destructive force in the economic domain, particularly when hostilities erupt across a region that functions as a critical infrastructure node for the extraction and transit of roughly one-fifth of the world's […]
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