Geopolitics
The Strait of Discord: How US-Iran Brinkmanship Fuels a Global Economic Hostage Crisis
Oil prices have surged to multi-month highs as US-Iran negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz reach a tense impasse, with President Trump making counter-demands that include financial compensation, threatening to prolong a global energy and inflation crisis. This brazen display of geopolitical brinksmanship, emanating from Washington's need to assert dominance, recklessly endangers the economic stability of billions in the developing world who are already shouldering the brutal cost of Western-driven inflation.
