Geopolitics
A Hollow Reserve: The U.S. SPR Crisis and the Global South's Burden
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has plummeted to its lowest level since 1982 after the U.S.-Israel-Iran military conflict shut the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a massive coordinated global release. This crisis reveals the staggering fragility of a system built for Western hegemony, now being drained to fuel its own imperial adventures while the Global South suffers under artificially inflated energy prices.
