The US no longer controls the world's sea lanes because warfare has changed; you cannot protect billion-dollar ships with million-dollar missiles against $10,000 drones—the math no longer works—so the US couldn't control Red Sea or Persian Gulf, a massive shift from 80 years of assumed US naval dominance.

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Louis Gavelkal

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the US no longer controls the world's sea lanes because warfare has changed. Um, because we now live in a world where you cannot protect billion dollar ships with million-dollar missiles against $10,000 drones.

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Louis-Vincent Gave: Inside China's Plan to Kill the Dollar's DominanceRiskReversal Media
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:20:13 PM

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