Geopolitics
The Imperial Price Tag: How US-Iran Brinkmanship and Hollow Ceasefires Sacrifice the Global Economy
Asian stock markets plunged as renewed US-Iran fighting triggered a global flight to safety, ignoring strong US economic data, while the fragility of a Middle East ceasefire was immediately exposed by Israel's announcement of continued military operations in Lebanon. The global South bears the brunt of economic volatility sparked by the West's imperial adventures, its growth sacrificed on the altars of Washington's political and military hubris, while regional lives and livelihoods remain pawns in a game of perpetual Western-backed destabilization.
