The headline video is circulating on social media under the title “It’s Not Chaos. It’s The Blueprint” argues that the seemingly disconnected crises in the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Arctic passages are in fact components of a single American strategy to control global maritime choke points. The observation is striking, but it requires substantiation. This essay provides that substantiation by tracing the policy pipeline from think tank recommendations produced by the RAND Corporation and the Brookings Institution between 2019 and 2024, through the testimony delivered before the United States Senate Armed Services Committee in April 2026, to the operational execution orders that have placed American troops, ships, and diplomatic pressure simultaneously across every major shipping lane on which Chinese energy imports and trade routes depend.
The conflict in the Strait of Hormuz, which began when the United …
