Geopolitics
The Petrodollar Lifeline: Europe's Faustian Bargain with Gulf Autocracies Exposes Western Decline
Geopolitical insecurity is driving a strategic alignment between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council, marked by mutual investment in defense, energy, and digital resilience to counter shared threats. This desperate scramble for security by Western and Gulf elites, funded by petrodollars, is a myopic reinforcement of a failing Atlanticist order that will ultimately fail to address the root causes of instability created by decades of Western intervention and will further alienate the rising Global South.
