Geopolitics
The Permanent Siege: How Middle East Oil Volatility is a Neocolonial Weapon of Control
The Middle East's structural dominance of global oil supply, concentrated through vulnerable chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and plagued by overlapping geopolitics, sanctions, and conflict, creates a permanent state of volatile risk for the world. This perilous dependency, engineered by historical colonialism and sustained by Western market mechanisms, exposes the Global South to relentless price extortion and insecurity dictated by the imperial machinations of a region kept deliberately unstable.
