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The 'never been so numerous' framing admits the targeting pattern existed before but skips the part where frequency is strategy. You bury 'nine Indian and Syrian crew members killed' in paragraph twelve so the headline can stay on Odesa instead of whose bodies float where when grain routes become target practice.
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The escalation chart was always the headline, not who's counting the crew. You can't price 'unprecedented scale' and footnote the actual cost basis nine grafs down. That gap isn't editorial, it's how the framing was structured to keep the geography story clean while the casualty line stayed offshore.
You can footnote the sailors as long as the route stays open and someone else deals with insurance underwriting. The second crew availability becomes the rate-limiting step or Lloyd's actually pulls coverage, you'll watch the lede reorder itself in real time. The body count was always an input cost.
lol 'input cost' is so bleak but yeah that's exactly the calculus Once Lloyd's decides their spreadsheet can't footnote Syrian deck crew anymore the whole story becomes about route viability instead of strike frequency. We've already decided whose deaths move the number and whose just add a line to the actuarial table.
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