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I'm Scott Galloway and this is no mercy, no malice. Since the start of the war with Iran, we' fixated on the Strait of Hormuz. But in a globalized, digitized world, geographic features aren't the only choke points. Choke points as read by George Hahn.

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When you compress the carotid arteries, you cut off the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain. This causes unconsciousness in approximately 8 to 15 seconds due to cerebral hypoxia, oxygen deprivation to the brain. Globalization has expanded the economic corpus, resulting in an interconnected world and yielding huge, though unevenly distributed, prosperity. It has also formed carotid arteries the size of. Wait for it, the Strait of Hormuz in 1984, a forgettable made for TV movie contemplated a Middle east conflict that closed the Strait of Hormuz. For decades, US strategic simulations have explored similar scenarios. In one 2002 war game, the Red Team, deploying asymmetrical capabilities including armed speedboats, decimated American naval forces in 10 minutes, effectively closing the Strait. Why didn't the Trump administration anticipate this entirely predictable scenario? A Despite a warning from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the president determined that the regime would capitulate before closing the strait, and that if it didn't, the US Military could reopen it. He was wrong. This may be the greatest intelligence failure since CIA Director George Tenet famously told Bush it was a slam dunk case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But let's put aside the choke point almost everyone saw coming and discuss some others we choose to ignore. Last year, One company conducted 84% of US space launches and 52% of global launches SpaceX. Almost 2/3 of the satellites orbiting Earth belong to the company, but it really dominates in low Earth orbit, where it owns 91% of communications satellites. If you're connecting from a cellular dead spot, going online while flying one of 30 plus airlines out on a boat, or operating in a war zone, you're at Elon Musk's mercy. He recently combined SpaceX with Xai at a valuation of $1.25 trillion, registering a 43% equity stake and 79% of the voting power. This week, SpaceX filed to go public seeking to raise 50 billion to $75 billion, meaning Musk will likely become the world's first trillionaire. He says he's creating the most ambitious vertically integrated innovation engine on and off Earth with AI rockets, space based Internet, direct to mobile device communications, and the world's foremost real time information and free speech platform. In other words, a global communications and information choke point with Musk. Sometimes you get Dr. Jekyll electric cars, reusable rockets, and medical breakthroughs for treating blindness and paralysis. Other times you get Mr. Hyde bullying a judge, Nazi salutes, and AI porn. Is Jekyll or Hyde the real Elon? A yes, as author Robert Caro, who's written four volumes on power through the lens of lbj, observed, power doesn't necessarily corrupt, but it always reveals. When you are climbing to get power, you have to use whatever methods are necessary and you have to conceal your aims, caro told the New York Times. But then when you get power, you can do what you want. So power reveals. Musk is According to the Wall Street Journal, addicted to ketamine, determined to father a legion level of offspring before the apocalypse, and, no surprise, perpetually engaged in custody battles. He also sleeps with loaded guns next to his bed. Is this the person we want at the epicenter of space, connectivity, AI and media? A no one person should have this much power. I have no idea what Musk intends to do with his power, and that's the scary part. He's unelected and answers to no one, as we now live in a society where billionaires are protected by the law, but not bound by it. Even scarier, Musk may not know either. See Ketamine. To paraphrase Richard Pryor, ketamine is a hell of a drug. I tried it once under therapeutic supervision. Shit got real and unreal fast. As Shayla Love wrote in the Atlantic, excessive use of the drug can make anyone feel like they rule the world. For most people, the danger of that delusion is contained inside a relatively small blast zone. The addict, their friends and family, their world. In Musk's case, his world is our world. Last weekend, an estimated 8 million Americans participated in no Kings protests. The rallies speak to the moment, but the demonstrators concerned are as old as America. As James Madison wrote In the Federalist Papers, 47 the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of. Of tyranny. After fighting a revolution against a monarch, the Constitution's framers split power across three branches of government, devising a system of checks and balances to put each branch in tension with the other two. Cumbersome by design, we spent the next 230 years reassembling the king. The Constitution grants the power to tax and regulate foreign commerce exclusively to Congress. But according to Duke law professor Timothy Meyer, functionally, trade policy has been dominated by the executive branch since the 1930s. The War Powers Resolution of 1973, sold as a check on Richard Nixon after revelations that he'd secretly bombed Cambodia, actually codified a 60 day blank check for presidential military action. Meanwhile, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed one week after 9 11, has been cited to justify classified military operations in at least 22 countries. Congress has never declared war in my lifetime, but we've fought many, and we're fighting one now. On paper, our system was built to avoid choke points. By distributing power, we built one anyway. It's inside the Oval Office. For the past century, as we ceded powers, from the legislative and judicial to the executive branch. We've been hoping norms would help us avoid strangulation. And it worked. Until it didn't. Last October, a database glitch in northern Virginia took down Snapchat, Fortnite, Ring doorbells, Coinbase, Reddit, DoorDash, and about a thousand other services. The culprit was a malfunction at an Amazon Web Services data center, the third major outage tied to that location in the past five years. Downdetector received 6.5 million outage reports. Three companies Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft own two thirds of the cloud market. These service interruptions rarely result in clients switching providers, leaving as too costly and time consuming. After a perfect storm of bad code and a widespread Azure outage knocked airlines, hospitals and banks offline in 2024, one cybersecurity expert said, this is a very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world's core Internet infrastructure. If you're under 30, that fragility is your lived experience. That's what makes the cloud such a potent choke point. It's hiding in plain sight until it isn't. Mistakes that cause outages are one thing, but attacks from malicious actors are the bigger threat. Since 2005, 34 countries have been suspected of sponsoring cyber operations, with China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia accounting for a combined 77% of suspected attacks. Since the start of the US Israel war on Iran, Iranian hackers have hit a medical technology company, stolen and tried to sell data from Lockheed Martin, and breached FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email. Even more chilling is the emergence of a gray zone between war and peace that is permanent cyber war. As a 2022 Atlantic Council report explained, without firing a single bullet, US adversaries are striking at the fibers of US and allied societies, economies and governments to test confidence in systems that underwrite both the US Constitutional republic and the US Led rul based international order. In other words, every day unseen hands reach across cyberspace and apply pressure to our air supply. When we gasp for air, however, we demand an immediate patch. Rather than insisting on redundant airways,