Strait of Hormuz as a Layered Firewall Network Diagram

Description

A satellite photo of the Strait of Hormuz region annotated like a network topology diagram. The Persian Gulf is labeled 'Our trusted LAN'; at the strait's chokepoint, three stacked firewall layers are marked along red boundary lines: 'Domestic FW' with an Iranian flag, 'Cisco FW' with a US flag, and 'Huawei FW' with a Chinese flag; the open Gulf of Oman beyond is labeled 'The big internet'. A green arrow shows traffic routing through the layers. The meme maps geopolitical chokepoint control onto defense-in-depth network architecture, joking that the perimeter is a stack of mutually distrusting vendors' firewalls between the 'trusted' internal zone and the wider internet