An Asia Times opinion piece characterizes statements by President Trump during stalled US-Iran nuclear negotiations as threats of mass destruction, including references to Iran's 'whole civilization' dying — framing the rhetoric as normalized escalation in an increasingly tense diplomatic standoff.

The internet has a Strait of Hormuz problem The next attack on the global economy may not arrive with a missile strike or a cyberattack on a server farm. It may arrive as silence — the sudden, eerie quiet of severed fiber-optic cables resting on the floor of the Persian Gulf, cut by a vessel whose crew will claim it was an accident. […] The post The internet has a Strait of Hormuz problem appeared first on Asia Times .