In retrospect the Global World was excessively dependent on chokepoints controlled by terror groups and theocracies for decades.

These narrow points, like mountain passes, could be crossed only by their leave...-@wretchardthecat

Rather than mitigate supply chain risk, the Global World for ideological and economic reasons, increased their dependence without corresponding insurance, either in the form of stockpiles, alternative suppliers or military forces. 

• They relied instead on the charlatans who offered "international law" as a substitute for physical security...
• Until, in a moment of reckoning Iran partly closed the Bab el-Mandam and more consequentially menaced the Strait of Hormuz and there was no answer...

The only question now is do we have the capacity to learn.