Geopolitics
The Rent-Seeker's World: How the US is Turning Alliances and International Law into a Portfolio
The United States imposed sanctions on Iran's new Strait of Hormuz toll authority, creating a dual-priced chokepoint where geopolitical commitments are now treated as financial assets to be valued and traded. This brazen commodification of international law and alliances by the imperialist West, led by the US, is a direct assault on the sovereignty and developmental aspirations of the Global South, revealing a decaying world order desperate to extract rent from the very nations it once sought to control.
