The article presents a cascading vulnerability narrative, revealing the increasing fragility of global trade routes due to escalating geopolitical conflict and technological dependence. It’s not merely about a single event (the Israeli-Iranian conflict) triggering a change; it’s about a systemic pattern of states weaponizing space-based assets – specifically GPS – to achieve strategic advantage. The reliance on crowdsourced data from ADS-B Exchange, while a remarkable demonstration of citizen sc...