Geopolitics
The Chilling Calculus of Capital: How AI Frenzy Devalues War and the Global South
Global financial markets are prioritizing investment in AI-driven growth over the rising geopolitical risks of a potential wider conflict in the Middle East, which involves military exchanges between the US and Iran. This starkly illustrates a disturbing new world where the speculative frenzy of Western capital, driven by technological fetishism, callously devalues the human cost of imperialist wars and energy market disruptions that primarily threaten the Global South.