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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron convened roughly 50 nations in Paris on April 17 to launch the Strait of Hormuz Maritime Freedom of Navigation Initiative — a defensive multinational mission to clear mines and restore commercial shipping through the waterway that carried 21 million barrels of oil per day before the US-Iran war shut it down. The initiative, which pointedly excludes the United States, faces criticism from those who call it performative posturing by militarily diminished powers, and from others who see it as the only viable path to reopening a chokepoint whose closure costs an estimated $20 billion per day in global GDP losses.