In the narrow waters of the Strait of Hormuz — where roughly a third of the world's seaborne oil passes and where empires of influence have long contested the right to watch and be watched — Iran's Revolutionary Guard announced the destruction of an American unmanned surveillance drone, framing the act not as aggression but as the defense of sovereign space. Separately, UK maritime authorities reported projectile strikes on two commercial vessels off Oman's coast, widening the circle of consequence beyond any bilateral dispute. These events, arriving together on a corridor the world depends up