{"question":"Are these figures real-time?","answerSummary":"No. They are annual SIPRI/NATO estimates, manually transcribed as source-linked static values with an as-of and review date, and may be revised in future SIPRI releases.","page":"/defense/comparison","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/defense/comparison"}
{"question":"What is Warconomy?","answerSummary":"A data-first economic-impact reference: source-linked indicators for the economic impact of wars, sanctions, chokepoints, defense spending, and reconstruction. It is not a news site, not real-time,...","page":"/","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/"}
{"question":"Is Warconomy real-time?","answerSummary":"No. Every value is a manually maintained, source-linked static figure with an as-of date and a review date. Coverage is partial; sample rows are clearly labeled.","page":"/","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/"}
{"question":"Is the data real-time?","answerSummary":"No. Every value is a manually maintained, source-linked static figure with an as-of date and a review date. Coverage is partial.","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What does live / static mean?","answerSummary":"A live/static value is genuinely sourced and manually transcribed from a cited public source, with an as-of and a last-reviewed date. It is citeable as a source-reported value, but it is not real-t...","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is coverage complete?","answerSummary":"No — coverage is partial and not real-time. Quantitative values are source-linked, and sample rows are clearly labeled and must not be cited as current data.","page":"/topics","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/topics"}
{"question":"Are dashboards source-linked?","answerSummary":"Yes. Dashboards are derived roll-ups; every figure resolves to a source-linked topic or source page. They are partial, manually maintained, and not real-time.","page":"/dashboards","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/dashboards"}
{"question":"Is this a live shipping tracker?","answerSummary":"No — it is not real-time and not a live vessel tracker. The Red Sea figures are dated historical snapshots that read stale by design.","page":"/chokepoints/dashboard","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/dashboard"}
{"question":"Are reconstruction figures final?","answerSummary":"No — reconstruction and macro estimates are decade-horizon figures that institutions periodically revise. They are not real-time.","page":"/conflicts/dashboard","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/conflicts/dashboard"}
{"question":"What is out of scope?","answerSummary":"Scraping, scheduled jobs, runtime APIs, paid data, real-time tracking, legal/compliance advice, and causal-attribution modeling.","page":"/methodology","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/methodology"}
{"question":"Is coverage complete?","answerSummary":"No. Coverage is partial and not real-time; this page shows exactly how much is source-linked live data versus labeled sample rows.","page":"/data-coverage","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/data-coverage"}
{"question":"What is the data review queue?","answerSummary":"A deterministic list of which source-linked values to re-check next, with recommended-review-by dates derived from each source's cadence. It is review status, not real-time monitoring.","page":"/data-review","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/data-review"}
{"question":"Are values fetched live from these sources?","answerSummary":"No. Values are manually transcribed static fixtures from the publishers' own pages — not real-time and not automatically updated.","page":"/sources","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/sources"}
{"question":"Is the export real-time?","answerSummary":"No. It is a static, manually maintained JSON file with a version and an as-of reference date; it is regenerated by hand when values are refreshed.","page":"/datasets/conflict-economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/datasets/conflict-economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is the data real-time?","answerSummary":"No — values are manually maintained, source-linked static figures with as-of and review dates.","page":"/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this a live vessel tracker?","answerSummary":"No — it is not real-time and not maritime intelligence. Vessel counts are dated as of specific sanctions packages or actions.","page":"/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is the Brent price real-time?","answerSummary":"No — it is a manually maintained monthly average from the EIA, not a live quote.","page":"/chokepoints/strait-of-hormuz/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/strait-of-hormuz/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Are the Red Sea figures current?","answerSummary":"No — they are dated historical snapshots from the acute disruption phase (UNCTAD/IMF, 2024). They remain source-linked but read stale; they are not real-time.","page":"/chokepoints/red-sea-shipping/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/red-sea-shipping/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this a live shipping tracker?","answerSummary":"No. Warconomy is not a live vessel or freight tracker; shipping metrics (transits, container transits, trade volume, revenue) are not interchangeable.","page":"/chokepoints/red-sea-shipping/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/red-sea-shipping/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is the canal data real-time?","answerSummary":"No. The transit and revenue figures are official Panama Canal Authority FY2024 annuals, and the oil-transit figures are EIA quarterly snapshots (1Q–2Q 2025). They are manually maintained and not a ...","page":"/chokepoints/panama-canal/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/panama-canal/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this a live shipping tracker?","answerSummary":"No. The figures are dated EIA quarterly snapshots, not real-time, and oil-transit volume is only one of several ways to measure the strait.","page":"/chokepoints/strait-of-malacca/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/strait-of-malacca/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Why have flows through Bab el-Mandeb dropped?","answerSummary":"Red Sea security disruption since late 2023 has diverted many tankers around the Cape of Good Hope. The EIA estimates oil transit fell to about 3.7 million b/d (1Q2025) and 4.3 million b/d (2Q2025)...","page":"/chokepoints/bab-el-mandeb/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/bab-el-mandeb/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this a live vessel tracker?","answerSummary":"No. The figures are dated EIA quarterly snapshots, not real-time, and this is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice on sanctions.","page":"/chokepoints/turkish-straits/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/turkish-straits/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this real-time or legal advice?","answerSummary":"Neither. The figures are dated EIA quarterly snapshots, not real-time, and this is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.","page":"/chokepoints/danish-straits/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/danish-straits/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this the same as the Strait of Hormuz Brent figure?","answerSummary":"Related but distinct: this page uses an EIA daily spot value, while the Strait of Hormuz page tracks a monthly Brent average. A daily spot differs from a monthly average; neither is real-time.","page":"/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this real-time?","answerSummary":"No. The values are manually maintained monthly EIA snapshots. Gas prices reflect weather, storage, and LNG flows as well as geopolitics, so they are tracked as benchmarks, not causal attributions.","page":"/commodities/natural-gas/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/commodities/natural-gas/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this real-time?","answerSummary":"No. The values are manually maintained monthly FAO snapshots and may be revised. The same index also appears on the Russia–Ukraine page in its food-channel context.","page":"/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What does the commodities dashboard cover?","answerSummary":"A cross-topic overview of oil benchmarks (Brent & WTI), natural gas (Henry Hub), and food prices (FAO Food Price Index and sub-indices), with source-linked indicators, coverage, and review status. ...","page":"/commodities/dashboard","caveatGroup":"not-real-time","relatedPath":"/commodities/dashboard"}
{"question":"Where should I start?","answerSummary":"See /topics for every canonical page, /dashboards for cross-topic overviews, or jump to the sanctions, chokepoints, or conflicts dashboards. /data-coverage shows what is live versus sample.","page":"/","caveatGroup":"sample-vs-live","relatedPath":"/"}
{"question":"What does sample mean?","answerSummary":"A sample row is an illustrative placeholder used to demonstrate structure. It is always labeled in the UI and must never be cited as current or measured.","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"sample-vs-live","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What is the difference between live and sample rows?","answerSummary":"Live/static rows are genuinely sourced, manually maintained values with an as-of and review date. Sample rows are clearly labeled placeholders and must not be cited as current or measured data.","page":"/data-coverage","caveatGroup":"sample-vs-live","relatedPath":"/data-coverage"}
{"question":"Is this a complete ranking of military spending?","answerSummary":"No. Warconomy source-links only the top three spenders and the world total; the full top-10 and regional totals are listed as data needs because they are not directly text-verifiable from the acces...","page":"/defense/comparison","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/defense/comparison"}
{"question":"Is Warconomy a news site?","answerSummary":"No. Warconomy is a data-first, source-linked economic-impact reference designed to be cited — not a news feed and not narrative coverage.","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"How is Warconomy's coverage organized?","answerSummary":"Into canonical topic pages (conflicts, chokepoints, sanctions), category dashboards that roll those up, data dashboards, and a machine-readable dataset. This index lists every canonical page by cat...","page":"/topics","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/topics"}
{"question":"What is the dashboards hub?","answerSummary":"A single index of Warconomy's overview surfaces: category dashboards (sanctions, chokepoints, conflicts), data dashboards, trust surfaces (coverage, review), the source registry, and the dataset.","page":"/dashboards","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/dashboards"}
{"question":"What is the economic impact of sanctions on Russia?","answerSummary":"Warconomy tracks it through source-linked indicators across energy-trade price caps, the oil shadow fleet, frozen assets / Ukraine financing, and secondary-sanctions enforcement. Coverage is partia...","page":"/sanctions/dashboard","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/sanctions/dashboard"}
{"question":"Is this legal or compliance advice?","answerSummary":"No. This is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice, and not a complete map of any sanctions regime.","page":"/sanctions/dashboard","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/sanctions/dashboard"}
{"question":"What is the economic impact of the Russia–Ukraine war?","answerSummary":"Warconomy tracks source-linked indicators for reconstruction needs and food/commodity prices, alongside the energy and sanctions channels covered elsewhere. Coverage is partial.","page":"/conflicts/dashboard","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/conflicts/dashboard"}
{"question":"What is in the dataset export?","answerSummary":"Enriched observations, sources, source-linked facts, policy thresholds, the sanctions block, dashboardHub, topicIndex, per-category review, and coverage/review summaries — plus a citation graph at ...","page":"/datasets/conflict-economic-impact","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/datasets/conflict-economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this legal or compliance advice?","answerSummary":"No. It is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice, and not a complete enforcement database.","page":"/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is coverage complete?","answerSummary":"No. Coverage is partial and not every channel or linkage is represented. Every channel resolves to source-linked figures via the trust surfaces.","page":"/transmission-map","caveatGroup":"partial-coverage","relatedPath":"/transmission-map"}
{"question":"Does higher military spending mean more military activity?","answerSummary":"No. Military expenditure is an annual budget measure — it is not the same as procurement, military aid, or battlefield activity, and these figures are levels and direction only, not a causal attrib...","page":"/defense/comparison","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/defense/comparison"}
{"question":"Are price moves attributed to chokepoint events?","answerSummary":"No. Benchmarks are tracked alongside risk; linkages are associative, not a causal attribution.","page":"/chokepoints/dashboard","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/dashboard"}
{"question":"What does 'stale' mean?","answerSummary":"Stale is a review status — a re-check is recommended before citing the value as current context. It does not mean the value is wrong; many stale rows are valid historical snapshots.","page":"/methodology","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/methodology"}
{"question":"Does 'stale' mean the data is wrong?","answerSummary":"No. Stale is a review signal based on each source's cadence — it means a re-check is recommended, not that the value is incorrect.","page":"/data-coverage","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/data-coverage"}
{"question":"Does stale mean the figure is false?","answerSummary":"No. Stale means a manual re-check is recommended before citing the value as current context; dated policy effective dates and event snapshots read stale by design.","page":"/data-review","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/data-review"}
{"question":"Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter to the economy?","answerSummary":"It is the world's most important oil-transit chokepoint; perceived transit risk is tracked alongside crude benchmark prices. Linkages are associative, not a causal attribution.","page":"/chokepoints/strait-of-hormuz/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/strait-of-hormuz/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What are Brent and WTI?","answerSummary":"Brent is the international waterborne crude benchmark; WTI is the U.S. (Cushing) benchmark. The EIA reported Brent spot at US$92.88/bbl and WTI at US$91.16/bbl on 29 May 2026. They are market bench...","page":"/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Does this prove a war caused a price move?","answerSummary":"No. Oil prices reflect supply, demand, OPEC+ decisions, inventories, and the dollar. Warconomy tracks benchmarks alongside risk and does not attribute a move to a single event unless the source does.","page":"/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Did the Russia–Ukraine war cause these prices?","answerSummary":"Cereals and vegetable oils are the sub-indices most exposed to the Black Sea / Ukraine channel, but prices reflect many factors. Warconomy tracks the indices alongside the food channel, not as a ca...","page":"/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Are these prices attributed to wars or sanctions?","answerSummary":"No. Commodity prices are market benchmarks tracked alongside conflict, sanctions, and chokepoint risk — not causal attributions. Prices reflect many factors.","page":"/commodities/dashboard","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/commodities/dashboard"}
{"question":"What does stale mean here?","answerSummary":"Stale means a manual review is recommended before citing a value as current context — not that the value is wrong. Dated historical snapshots (e.g. EIA quarterly chokepoint flows) can remain valid ...","page":"/data-maintenance","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/data-maintenance"}
{"question":"What does source readiness mean?","answerSummary":"It is a derived label (high/medium/low) describing how directly a source backs a maintained value — based on authority, citation role, deep-linking, and review metadata. It explains why a source is...","page":"/source-quality","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/source-quality"}
{"question":"Does the map show causation?","answerSummary":"No. It is a relationship map derived from how Warconomy's data links together. A connection means 'tracked alongside', not 'caused by' — it is not a causal-attribution model.","page":"/transmission-map","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/transmission-map"}
{"question":"Is the FAO index a measure of war damage?","answerSummary":"No — it is a global food-commodity benchmark tracked alongside the food channel, not a causal attribution to the war.","page":"/conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"causality","relatedPath":"/conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What is the best page for sanctions questions?","answerSummary":"The sanctions dashboard (/sanctions/dashboard) is the cross-topic overview; individual figures live on the energy-trade, shadow-fleet, frozen-assets, and circumvention topic pages. It is an economi...","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"legal-compliance","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this legal or compliance advice?","answerSummary":"No. This is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.","page":"/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"legal-compliance","relatedPath":"/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this legal or compliance advice?","answerSummary":"No. It is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.","page":"/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"legal-compliance","relatedPath":"/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is this legal or compliance advice?","answerSummary":"No. It is an economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice, and not a tracker of legal proceedings.","page":"/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"legal-compliance","relatedPath":"/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Are the price caps market prices?","answerSummary":"No — price caps are policy thresholds, not market prices, and the EU and U.S./G7 caps differ by jurisdiction.","page":"/sanctions/dashboard","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/sanctions/dashboard"}
{"question":"How do chokepoints affect the economy?","answerSummary":"Through energy benchmarks (e.g. Brent), shipping-transit disruption (Suez/Red Sea), route diversion, and freight costs. Warconomy tracks these with source-linked indicators.","page":"/chokepoints/dashboard","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/dashboard"}
{"question":"How is freshness computed without a live clock?","answerSummary":"Deterministically, against a curated reference date (site.dataAsOf), never the runtime clock — so the static build and tests stay reproducible.","page":"/methodology","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/methodology"}
{"question":"Are the EU and U.S./G7 oil price caps the same?","answerSummary":"No. They differ by jurisdiction — the U.S./G7 coalition cap and the EU's lower dynamic cap are tracked as separate source-linked policy thresholds, not market prices.","page":"/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Are the frozen assets confiscated?","answerSummary":"No — they are immobilized, not confiscated. The principal is distinct from the windfall proceeds used to repay G7/EU loans to Ukraine.","page":"/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Why do EU and worldwide figures differ?","answerSummary":"EU-only figures (about €210bn) are a subset of the worldwide total (about €260bn). Principal, proceeds, committed loans, and disbursements are all distinct.","page":"/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Are entity counts comparable across jurisdictions?","answerSummary":"No. EU listings, OFAC designations, and BIS Entity List additions use different scopes; the counts here are per-package snapshots, not cumulative or cross-jurisdiction comparable.","page":"/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact"}
{"question":"How is Bab el-Mandeb different from the Red Sea page?","answerSummary":"This page focuses on oil and energy transit through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait (EIA figures), while the Red Sea page covers container-shipping and Suez transit disruption (UNCTAD/IMF). They are kept ...","page":"/chokepoints/bab-el-mandeb/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/bab-el-mandeb/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Which natural gas price does Warconomy track?","answerSummary":"The U.S. Henry Hub benchmark: EIA reported US$2.94/MMBtu in May 2026, up from US$2.77 in April 2026. European (TTF) and Asian (JKM) gas prices can move very differently and are not captured here.","page":"/commodities/natural-gas/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/commodities/natural-gas/economic-impact"}
{"question":"How are chokepoints ranked?","answerSummary":"By a single comparable EIA metric — crude oil and petroleum-liquids transit volume — for the latest comparable quarter (2Q2025). Vessel transits, tonnage, and price benchmarks are different measure...","page":"/chokepoints/rankings","caveatGroup":"provenance-versioning","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/rankings"}
{"question":"How do the top military spenders compare in 2025?","answerSummary":"By SIPRI's 2025 estimate the United States (US$954bn), China (US$336bn), and Russia (US$190bn) are the three largest spenders, together about 51% of the world total of US$2,887bn. Only this single ...","page":"/defense/comparison","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/defense/comparison"}
{"question":"How should I cite a Warconomy page?","answerSummary":"Cite a category dashboard for an overview, a topic or source page for an individual figure, and the JSON export or citation graph for machine-readable references. Every figure links to its underlyi...","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Where is the machine-readable data?","answerSummary":"At /datasets/conflict-economic-impact/data.json, with a deterministic citation graph at graph.json. The export includes observations, sources, policy thresholds, the sanctions block, source quality...","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"How does Warconomy choose sources?","answerSummary":"Official and intergovernmental publishers are the source of record; authoritative research is used at medium confidence. News summaries and inaccessible/paywalled charts are not used as the source ...","page":"/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Topic page or dashboard — which should I cite?","answerSummary":"Cite a category dashboard for a cross-topic overview and a topic page for an individual figure. Each figure links to its underlying source.","page":"/topics","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/topics"}
{"question":"What counts as a source of record?","answerSummary":"Official and intergovernmental publishers first; authoritative research (e.g. CREA, KSE) at medium confidence. News summaries and inaccessible/paywalled charts are not used as the source of record ...","page":"/methodology","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/methodology"}
{"question":"Where does Warconomy's data come from?","answerSummary":"Official and intergovernmental publishers (EIA, SIPRI, NATO, UNCTAD, IMF, the European Commission, the U.S. Treasury) and authoritative research (CREA). Every public source is listed here with a pe...","page":"/sources","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/sources"}
{"question":"What is citation readiness?","answerSummary":"A derived label (high/medium/low) summarizing a source's authority, role, and how directly it backs a maintained value — to help cite the strongest source for each figure.","page":"/sources","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/sources"}
{"question":"What is the shadow fleet?","answerSummary":"Ageing tankers with opaque ownership and non-Western insurance that carry Russian oil outside G7 maritime services. Warconomy tracks source-linked vessel-listing and export-share indicators.","page":"/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What are secondary sanctions?","answerSummary":"Measures that reach beyond Russia to the third-country firms and intermediaries that re-route restricted goods or finance. Warconomy tracks source-linked enforcement and export-control indicators.","page":"/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Does Warconomy auto-refresh its data?","answerSummary":"No. Warconomy is manually maintained and static — there is no scraping, no scheduled jobs, and no runtime API calls. This page lists which source-linked values are due for a manual re-check, groupe...","page":"/data-maintenance","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/data-maintenance"}
{"question":"How are quarterly rows handled?","answerSummary":"Quarterly sources such as the EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook chokepoint table use the irregular ('unknown') cadence bucket and are flagged for periodic review or appending the next period when the s...","page":"/data-maintenance","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/data-maintenance"}
{"question":"How is readiness scored?","answerSummary":"Deterministically from each source's type, cadence, URL, and how it is used (live observations vs facts). There are no manual scores. Official publishers backing a live deep-linked value rank highest.","page":"/source-quality","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/source-quality"}
{"question":"How does the war affect the global economy?","answerSummary":"Mainly through energy, food, and trade channels, plus large reconstruction needs. Warconomy tracks source-linked indicators (e.g. the RDNA4 reconstruction need and the FAO Food Price Index) rather ...","page":"/conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"source-limits","relatedPath":"/conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Is the data machine-readable?","answerSummary":"Yes. Every page carries JSON-LD, and the full dataset is exported as static JSON at /datasets/conflict-economic-impact/data.json with a citation graph at graph.json.","page":"/","caveatGroup":"static-api","relatedPath":"/"}
{"question":"Where is the machine-readable data?","answerSummary":"At /datasets/conflict-economic-impact/data.json, with a citation graph at graph.json. The export includes policy thresholds, the sanctions block, dashboardHub, topicIndex, and per-category review.","page":"/dashboards","caveatGroup":"static-api","relatedPath":"/dashboards"}
{"question":"Does Warconomy publish casualty figures?","answerSummary":"No. Warconomy focuses on economic impact and does not publish casualty or battlefield estimates.","page":"/conflicts/dashboard","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/conflicts/dashboard"}
{"question":"What does category review show?","answerSummary":"The same sitewide queue grouped by category (sanctions, conflicts, chokepoints, dashboards). Category counts reconcile with the sitewide totals.","page":"/data-review","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/data-review"}
{"question":"Why did Panama Canal traffic fall?","answerSummary":"A severe 2023–2024 drought cut Lake Gatún water levels, forcing the canal to reduce daily transit slots and draft. The Panama Canal Authority reported 9,944 deep-draft transits in FY2024, down abou...","page":"/chokepoints/panama-canal/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/panama-canal/economic-impact"}
{"question":"How important is the Strait of Malacca for oil?","answerSummary":"It is the world's second-busiest oil transit chokepoint after the Strait of Hormuz. The EIA estimates about 21.7 million b/d (1Q2025) and 22.8 million b/d (2Q2025) of crude and petroleum liquids tr...","page":"/chokepoints/strait-of-malacca/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/strait-of-malacca/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What moves through the Turkish Straits?","answerSummary":"Predominantly crude oil from Russian, Caspian, and Black Sea ports bound for the Mediterranean. The EIA estimates about 3.6 million b/d (1Q2025) and 3.7 million b/d (2Q2025) of oil transited the Bo...","page":"/chokepoints/turkish-straits/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/turkish-straits/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Why do the Danish Straits matter for sanctions?","answerSummary":"They are a primary outlet for seaborne Russian and Baltic crude and product exports, so they feature in price-cap and shadow-fleet attention. The EIA estimates about 4.8 million b/d (1Q2025) and 4....","page":"/chokepoints/danish-straits/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/danish-straits/economic-impact"}
{"question":"What is the FAO Food Price Index?","answerSummary":"A trade-weighted basket of five sub-indices (cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, sugar). It averaged 130.8 points in May 2026 (2014–2016 = 100). It is a global price benchmark, not a hunger or fo...","page":"/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact"}
{"question":"Why isn't the Strait of Hormuz in the ranking?","answerSummary":"Hormuz is the largest oil chokepoint overall, but Warconomy tracks it via a crude benchmark rather than this EIA transit series, so it is not part of this single-metric comparable ranking.","page":"/chokepoints/rankings","caveatGroup":"general","relatedPath":"/chokepoints/rankings"}