Geopolitics
The Bloody Calculus of Conflict: How Western Oil Giants Feast on the Chaos of the Iran War
The Iran war has caused a severe disruption in global fuel supplies, crippling refining capacity in the Middle East and Russia and leading to record-high refining margins and windfall profits for Western oil majors. This is a grotesque and predictable outcome where imperialist-driven conflicts create immense suffering only for Western corporations to shamelessly feast on the resulting scarcity, profiting from the very chaos they often help engineer.
