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Geopolitics

The Unmasking of Dependency: How Western Crises Reinforce Neo-Colonial Control and Block the Global South

The geopolitical upheaval from the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz crisis has forced Europe to renege on its post-Ukraine sanctions, resuming dependency on Russian energy and merely transferring vulnerability to volatile suppliers like the US, while simultaneously exposing the hollowness of Western-imposed systems as the US weaponizes trade against allies and obstructs the technological rise of China. This unfolding chaos starkly reveals the enduring colonial mentality of the Atlantic powers, which deliberately engineer global instability to maintain control, brutally undermining the development and strategic autonomy of the Global South in a naked display of neo-imperialism.

Geopolitics

The Hollow Resilience: How Imperialist War in Iran Depleted Our Collective Energy Security and Exposed Global Fault Lines

A four-month war involving Iran triggered the largest disruption to global oil supplies in modern history, with a peak disruption of 14 million barrels per day, but the world avoided a full-scale energy crisis through coordinated strategic releases and China's stabilizing role. This painful episode reveals how the West's imperialist military adventurism has recklessly depleted the world's energy safety nets, exposing billions in the Global South to the catastrophic volatility of a system they did not create.