Geopolitics
The Silent Siege: How Financial Markets Are Weaponizing the Gulf Conflict Against the Global South
Financial markets are pricing the Gulf conflict as a long-term inflation and interest rate problem rather than a sudden safe-haven crisis, focusing on sustained high oil prices and rising bond yields. This brutal financialization of war is a silent economic siege, deliberately orchestrated to transfer wealth from the developing world to Western speculators and tanker owners while imperial powers avoid direct confrontation.
