For decades, the "Middle East crisis" was a headline about crude oil, tankers, and the price at the pump. But as of March 2026, the stakes have shifted from the engine to the motherboard. While the world watches drone strikes over Isfahan and naval skirmishes in the Persian Gulf, a more quiet, more lethal war is being fought over the very building blocks of the 21st century: semiconductors. The "Digital Iron Curtain" is falling, and it isn't just dividing East and West—it’s threatening to starve the global AI revolution of its most basic needs. The Helium Hostage: Why the Strait of Hormuz is the New Silicon Valley We’ve long been told that the South China Sea is the "front line" of the chip war because of Taiwan’s dominance in fabrication. But the ongoing U.S.-Israel war with Iran has revealed a terrifying bottleneck: The Middle East is the lungs of the semiconductor industry. To make the world’s most advanced 3nm chips, you don’t just need engineers;...
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| Image Credit: Salman Rushdie Twitter Account |
It is really true the author who writes long novels that are famously hard to finish has join the micro-blogging platform Twitter. Reading his tweets are quiet interesting and yo see that the man is a brain and a thinker. Perhaps you might think that a person who writes so well will not be able to be as entertaining and cleaver given the fact that he has only 140 characters to say per Tweet. You could be right but 140 characters gives a person the chance to bring out their poetic side. And a good writer can say it all in a few works. We hope as well as others that the brainy prose starts to flow. Yes Mr. Rushdie we are all used to the banal tweets that so often flood out timeline. Perhaps now we get to fly the skies of brainy prose and amazingly poetic tweets. 'Today we move on from ontological questions. As Popeye the Sailor Man said, I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.'
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