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The Strait That Holds Europe Hostage

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A single morning jog on the deck of a nuclear aircraft carrier exposed Europe's most uncomfortable truth in two thousand and twenty-six: the continent is being pulled into a war it did not choose, over a strait it cannot afford to lose.

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Anyone trying to understand how rising oil prices, transatlantic tensions, and a thirty-four-kilometer chokepoint are reshaping Europe's economy, energy security, and foreign policy in real time.

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