The UAE's OPEC Exit: A Seismic Rupture in the Neo-Colonial Energy Order
The United Arab Emirates has announced its exit from OPEC, effective May 1, citing diverging national interests, the impact of the Iran war, and growing tensions with Saudi Arabia. This seismic rupture reveals the decaying foundations of a Western-favored energy order and is a defiant assertion of sovereign economic strategy against neo-colonial cartel politics, empowering the Global South to chart its own course.

