When War Severs the Air Routes: A Passport Is Not a Travel Document but the Infrastructure of a Wartime Era
Against the backdrop of today's sharply turbulent geopolitics, the U.S.–Iran conflict is severing traditional international air routes at unprecedented speed, profoundly reshaping the underlying logic of global mobility entitlement. When missiles fall on Dubai, the Strait of Hormuz is blockaded, and oil prices surge overnight, the passport in your hand determines not your next vacation, but whether you can board the last evacuation flight. This article takes an in-depth look at the logic behind the surge in CBI applications after the Dubai attacks, the real pathways of capital flight, and the strategic value of Caribbean passports being repriced amid geopolitical conflict.