While Treasury promised to collapse Tehran's government, Karen Kwiatkowski heard something else entirely:
"It's an off ramp. It really is an off ramp."
Her logic runs cold.
The military option is spent, CENTCOM is already sketching a smaller footprint, and Americans have tuned out Iran sanctions for 47 years.
Rebrand the war as economic and it becomes a war nobody watches, "reassessing our regional interests" becomes the sayable line, and the blockade can quietly evaporate into an MOU-shaped reopening.
Her sharpest math: shippers already pay Lloyd's more in war-risk premiums than any transit fee Iran would ever charge.
The home front supplied her evidence today.
Ben Gurion shut down mid-afternoon on a 100,000-passenger day, an Air France flight turned around over the Mediterranean, and coverage noted twenty American refuelers crowding the civilian stands while ground crews walked off, burned out and understaffed.
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