Geopolitics
The Fragile Tower: How Western Financial Deformation and Geopolitical Meddling Have Engineered Global Energy Peril
The global energy system exhibits anelastic and hysteretic behavior, accumulating permanent deformations from successive crises like the 2008 financial collapse and geopolitical chokepoint pressures, creating a structurally fragile tower atop a weak foundation of global debt. This is the direct legacy of Western-dominated financial architecture and geopolitical meddling that systematically disadvantages the Global South and creates a powder keg where nations like China and India, the true demand anchors, bear the brunt of instability orchestrated from the corridors of Washington and Brussels.