In the contested waters that carry the world's energy lifeblood, a series of tanker attacks has pushed Brent crude above $100 per barrel — a threshold that speaks not merely to disrupted supply, but to the fragility of the infrastructure civilization has built to move oil from earth to engine. Markets are not panicking; they are calculating, pricing in the persistent possibility that the routes connecting producers to consumers may no longer be taken for granted. It is a reminder that the global economy rests not only on extraction and refinement, but on the quiet, vulnerable act of transit.