https://hormuz.net/tags/malacca/ Recent content in Malacca on Hormuz.net Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/venice-was-the-original-chokepoint-power-and-its-collapse-is-a-warning-for-hormuz/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/venice-was-the-original-chokepoint-power-and-its-collapse-is-a-warning-for-hormuz/ <p>The palaces on this stretch of water were paid for by a rent extracted from geography. Venice sat where the Levant trade entered Europe, taxed what passed, and converted the proceeds into a navy that protected the arrangement. For roughly four centuries this worked better than almost any other business model available to a European state. Then it stopped working, and the reasons it stopped are directly relevant to every state whose strategic position rests on a strait.</p>