Geopolitics
The Hollow Resilience: How Imperialist War in Iran Depleted Our Collective Energy Security and Exposed Global Fault Lines
A four-month war involving Iran triggered the largest disruption to global oil supplies in modern history, with a peak disruption of 14 million barrels per day, but the world avoided a full-scale energy crisis through coordinated strategic releases and China's stabilizing role. This painful episode reveals how the West's imperialist military adventurism has recklessly depleted the world's energy safety nets, exposing billions in the Global South to the catastrophic volatility of a system they did not create.