Saturday, April 04, 2026

U.S. Doubles Hormuz Reinsurance Guarantee to $40 Billion

REMARKS:The US doubles insurance guarantees for tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, using American and private insurers to pressure ships into traversing the strategic Gulf waterway.

U.S. doubles Hormuz tanker insurance to $40 Billion

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Wall Street Journal
  • Today 04:24                  
NOTE: Despite the announcement, no public application portal for the insurance program has yet been opened, leaving tanker operators waiting for operational guidance.

US President Donald Trump announced plans to reopen the strait in early March, framing it as a step to safeguard global trade. The DFC, which initially partnered with Swiss-American insurer Chubb, promised further instructions for ships seeking coverage in the coming days.

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China Seeks Iran's Guarantees for Strait of Hormuz Transit - Caspianpost.com

China is seeking guarantees from Iran that its oil and liquefied natural gas tankers can safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz amid rising regional tensions.

The conflict has effectively blocked one of the world’s most important shipping routes, disrupting roughly one-fifth of global oil and gas supplies. China, a longtime ally of Iran, transports about 45% of its crude oil through the strait, The Caspian Post reports via foreign media.

 
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Hegseth's wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: "It's insane"

The sudden removal of top U.S. Army generals in a single night has sent shockwaves through the global stage. For many, it raises serious questions—what does it really mean when leadership at

Hegseth's wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: "It's insane"

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U.S. Army Gen. Randy George at Fort Polk, La., on March 20. Photo: Colin Demarest/Axios

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HISTORIAN NIALL FERGUSION ASKS: HORMUZ ---- An American Suez??. . . "There is now a rising probability that Trump’s war backfires on him . ."

"There is now a rising probability that Trump’s war backfires on him much as Eden’s did—economically, politically, and geopolitically. 

Niall Ferguson: How Great Powers Lose Wars They’re Winning

“Time is not on the side of an overstretched hegemon, because the economic costs of war pile up faster than the strategic benefits can be reaped,” writes Niall Ferguson. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection via Getty Images)
Nearly 70 years after the Suez Crisis, the United States may have marched into a strikingly similar trap in the Strait of Hormuz.
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04.02.26 — International
"For the United States, ceding control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran in 2026 would not be quite as swift a humiliation as the Anglo-French failure to wrest control of the Suez Canal from Egypt in 1956. However, the consequences for the credibility of the Pax Americana would be similar to Suez’s consequences for the Pax Britannica. It would permanently damage both the legitimacy and the credibility of American primacy—and pave the way for a new international order, in which a rising power would have the option to play the leading role." 4/5 
 
"But the economic consequences of the conflict—not just the closure of a crucial oil choke point, but also the financial ramifications of the crisis—result in political damage and strategic efeat. The result is humiliating withdrawal." 3/5 

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American Suez. A doleful essay for Good Friday. "There is now a rising probability that Trump’s war backfires on him much as Eden’s did—economically, politically, and geopolitically. Which raises the question: Is this the American Suez?" 1/5
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AXIOS Media: Your front-end and back-end

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Axios has over 100 million weekly downloads. It is the most widely used JavaScript HTTP client ever built. It is in your frontend, your backend, your mobile APIs, your microservices. It is a dependency of hundreds of thousands of packages. And for ~2h54m on March 31, 2026, installing it was the same as running an attacker's malware on your machine.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Open-Source Trust
The axios attack didn’t succeed because of advanced malware. It succeeded becauseThat’s the real risk. Open-source packages aren’t secured by systems. They’re secured by people, and their credentials.
 
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    Friday, April 03, 2026

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