We are entering a period of geopolitically aligned blocs with rising friction between them, because while the plates are shifting, no one is willing to be ground down.

While missiles remain the real primary threat to commercial vessels transporting cargo, Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait in retaliation for attacks on its territory. Dozens have been laid in the past few days, according to reports, and could feasibly deploy hundreds more in the waterway.

What was once framed as a contained, targeted operation has, with startling speed, collapsed into a full-scale regional war.

In today's political environment, characterised by overlapping, complex problems, including but not limited to the entangled relationship between states and private corporations, especially in the AI industry, ideology has become not merely relevant but urgent to understand.

Will the U.S. government, the largest military in the world, become dependent on a single company network for space militarisation? So much so that regulation becomes a logistical nightmare? The military industrial complex is officially dominating space.