The longstanding British Empire’s control over international naval trade, specifically through the strategic Strait of Hormuz with associated financial networks, is challenged by the United States in the current Iran conflict.
Trump’s real target is not Iran per se, but the imperial infrastructure controlling global choke points and financial systems.
The current effort by the Trump administration to remove the global control by British imperial mechanisms and substitute with a U.S.-led order, is nothing but a spectacular attempt to change the existing world trade order.
Strait of Hormuz Insurance Trade Chokepoint: For over a century, Britain managed the Strait of Hormuz as a leverage point to control global energy flows, maintaining regional instability to enforce a protection racket. Lloyd’s of London insured shipping through the strait, profiting from the instability. Iran’s aggressive actions justified raised premiums, benefiting the empire’s financial interests.
Trump disrupted this by having the U.S. government provide insurance, effectively breaking the British financial arm of the racket and asserting American control over the choke point. It is a decisive break from decades of hidden geopolitical control, exposing and dismantling the imperial infrastructure that has managed energy, finance, and military power behind the scenes.
The hidden British power structures, controlling the strategic Strait of Hormuz chokepoint through Iran by constantly creating instability, has for long been the City of London’s smart financial control grid while profiting from insurance and energy flows. Iran has been a piece on the chessboard that the British Empire has managed for over a century. This historical and Imperial structure is now openly challenged by Trump.
Trump has exposed the hidden mechanisms of the British empire—choke points, financial pipelines, military arrangements—and forced them into open conflict where they can be dismantled. The British Empire’s century-old system of imperial control is unravelling.
Strait of Hormuz Insurance Trade Chokepoint: The Strait of Hormuz is considered to be one of the world’s most significant maritime chokepoints, given its role in facilitating a substantial proportion of global seaborne trade, including around a quarter of the world’s oil and significant volumes of liquefied natural gas and fertilisers. The Asian Strait of Malacca is yet another such chokepoint.
The escalating costs of energy, fertilisers and transportation, encompassing freight rates, bunker fuel prices and insurance premiums, have the potential to affect food costs and exacerbate cost-of-living pressures, particularly among the most vulnerable segments of society.
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Strait of Hormuz Insurance Trade Chokepoint: “For over a century, the Strait of Hormuz has been the British Empire’s ultimate leverage point. Whoever controls it controls who prospers and who doesn’t. Britain successfully established a strategic position through Iran, employing successive regime changes. However, it should be noted that these regimes were different in nature, yet the underlying imperial function remained consistent. Keep the region unstable. Keep the choke point contested. Keep the world dependent. That’s the protection racket in its purest form. By keeping the region unstable, the ships are stopped from moving, and then you charge for the protection that makes passage possible,” says Susan Kokinda at Promethean Action.
“In 1951, the British navy imposed a blockade on the strait to pressure Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh to reverse his decision to nationalise the Iranian oil industry, which had a large British stake,” writes Mohammed Al-Hashemi at Al Jazeera. He points out that the Strait represents nine hundred years of toll collection, saying that the modern insurance system has proven capable of closing the strait more tightly than any navy.
“Lloyd’s of London was the insurance arm of the racket. You want your ship to transit the strait? Then buy our coverage. And the City of London collected a cut on every ship. Iran breaking windows was good for business, because up until now, Lloyd’s just raised the premiums. Then, Donald Trump moved to shut down the racket, and Lloyd’s cancelled all the insurance. The president told his Treasury Secretary, “Move in and have the US provide insurance.” He broke their financial arm first. Now he’s finishing the job militarily. He’s ending world extortion.,” says Kokinda.
Trump has said that the U.S. has “won” the current fight between the two countries, and doesn’t care about reaching an agreement because the balance of power has changed a lot. He demands “everything” rather than making smaller demands, which changes the usual way bargaining works.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s refusal to join the American blockade on Iran, marks a massive loss of British influence over the strait, where Lloyds already have shut down insurance for the ships passing through.
Strait of Hormuz Insurance Trade Chokepoint: Britain has lost the geopolitical game it ran for a century; the choke point is now an American operation. The U.S. is targeting the money that Iran is using to fund its activities, which goes from the Gulf to London and Zurich. The government of Dubai has stopped money changers who are connected to the IRGC from working, which has stopped a lot of money laundering.
Treasury Secretary Bessant used Section 311 of the Patriot Act against Embeir Merchant Bank in Zurich. The bank was accused of laundering over $100 million for the IRGC. This was an effective financial nuclear strike. The aim is to disrupt the financial networks and money laundering operations of our enemies.
Other institutions under scrutiny include London-registered crypto exchanges processing nearly $1 billion for the IRGC and Santander UK linked to Iranian petrochemical fronts, which have offices near to Buckingham Palace in London. The implications are massive for who controls world trade.
The article was first published April 27, 2026.
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