The Strait of Hormuz — Act 3

1347: What the Plague Built — Teaser

1347: What the Plague Built — Teaser: The plague killed half of Europe in two years. The disease is gone. What it built is not. Roman introduces 1347: What the Plague Built — a four-part series on what the Black Death left standing and why it still matters. ---------------------------------------- New episodes every Sunday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN [https://x.com/ThePulseSPN] singularitypulse.substack.com [https://singularitypulse.substack.com]

The Strait of Hormuz — Act 4

The Prisoner's Strait: Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz every few years and never does — because forty percent of its own government revenue transits the same six miles of water. This act covers the IRGC swarm-boat doctrine, why Lloyd's of London actuarial tables are a more effective weapon than missiles, and China's structural exposure to Hormuz: an industrial economy that cannot function without fuel it doesn't control, flowing through a corridor it can't secure — identical to Britain's position in 1914. ---------------------------------------- New episodes every Sunday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN [https://x.com/ThePulseSPN] singularitypulse.substack.com [https://singularitypulse.substack.com]

The Strait of Hormuz — Act 3

The Oil Trap: In May 1908, an engineer in the Persian foothills ignored a telegram telling him to shut down and kept drilling. The gusher he struck set off a chain reaction that runs unbroken to the present: Churchill's 1914 purchase of Anglo-Persian Oil, Mosaddegh's nationalization, the CIA coup that reversed it, the Shah's fall, and the revolution that turned Iran's position at the strait from a guarantee of flow into a permanent threat. ---------------------------------------- New episodes every Sunday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN [https://x.com/ThePulseSPN] singularitypulse.substack.com [https://singularitypulse.substack.com]

The Strait of Hormuz — Act 2

The Route to India: Britain didn't come to the Persian Gulf for the Gulf — it came to protect the passage to India, and it built an entire political order to do it. This act covers how calling Arab sailors 'pirates' became the legal foundation for the Trucial States, why the borders on today's map were drawn to serve an empire that no longer exists, and what happened when Britain announced it was leaving — and the rulers it had installed offered to pay it to stay. ---------------------------------------- New episodes every Sunday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN [https://x.com/ThePulseSPN] singularitypulse.substack.com [https://singularitypulse.substack.com]

The Strait of Hormuz — Act 1

Four thousand years ago, Bahrain's merchants calibrated their scales to Indian standards — not Mesopotamian ones. That detail reveals who organized Gulf trade and why: the same tectonic collision that built the oil reserves also carved the six-mile bottleneck everything has to pass through. This act covers the ancient Sumerian trade highway, Alexander the Great's unbuilt thousand-ship armada, and the starving Portuguese commander who seized Hormuz Island in 1507 with six ships and a costume change. ---------------------------------------- New episodes every Sunday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN [https://x.com/ThePulseSPN] singularitypulse.substack.com [https://singularitypulse.substack.com]