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On February 28, 2026, a war began in a country most Americans couldn't find on a map — and within weeks, it had reached into every corner of the global economy. Diesel prices no one had ever seen before. Grocery bills quietly climbing month after month. Ships taking the long way around an entire continent. A currency collapsing so fast that a family's savings lost half their value before the fighting even reached its second month.

THE STRAIT is the story of how the 2026 Iran war reshaped the world — not through the battles that made headlines, but through the invisible machinery of oil, shipping, currency, and trade that connects a strike in Tehran to a shopping cart in Ohio, a factory floor in Frankfurt, and a fishing village in the Philippines.

Drawing on financial data, firsthand accounts, and reporting from across the conflict's six-month arc, this book follows the war on six fronts: the collapse of the negotiations that failed to prevent it, the closure of the world's most vital oil chokepoint, the supply chains it broke and the industries it made or destroyed, the human toll it exacted on the people who lived through it, the shockwaves it sent through markets and central banks worldwide, and the deep, structural changes it has left behind — changes that may outlast the war itself.

This is not a book that takes sides in an ongoing geopolitical dispute. It's an honest, unflinching account of what war actually costs — measured not just in dollars, but in the lives spent paying for it.

What you'll find inside:

• How a single waterway controls a fifth of the world's oil — and what happens when it closes
• The real story behind $6-a-gallon diesel and the inflation it triggered worldwide
• Which industries profited from the war, and which ones it nearly destroyed
• The human cost: displacement, currency collapse, and daily life under blockade
• How central banks and emerging markets absorbed a shock they didn't choose
• What may never go back to "normal" — and why that matters for the years ahead

Clear-eyed, evenhanded, and deeply human, THE STRAIT is essential reading for anyone trying to understand how a war fought over a narrow stretch of water became everyone's problem.