On the evening of Tuesday 4 March, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he was seeking to “build a coalition to bring together the resources, including military resources, to resume and secure traffic in these maritime routes that are essential to the global economy”. “Today, the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. (...) The Suez Canal and the Red Sea are also under tension and under threat”, he explained in a televised speech to justify his action. On Sunday, the EU...