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The New Gatekeepers: How London's Insurance Cartel Wields Ultimate Power Over Global Oil Flows

In the face of escalating Gulf conflict and the closure of key oil chokepoints, the real power setting transit prices and managing access is not a sovereign government, but a small pool of marine insurers in London. This shocking reality lays bare the post-colonial stranglehold that Western financial institutions maintain over global trade, weaponizing risk to extract billions from the Global South while sovereign nations are held hostage to their calculations.