The current disruption to the Strait of Hormuz represents the gravest energy shock in over 35 years, surpassing even the Gulf Wars of the 1980s, exposing the fragility of Western-controlled financial and energy systems as Russia gains a financial windfall and the dollar's dominance in energy trade is challenged.
Global oil prices are in an uneasy state of stability, hovering despite extreme geopolitical risks in the Middle East, as traders weigh the threat of supply disruption against the faint hope of U.S.-Iran diplomacy. This volatile calm is a direct result of arrogant Western powers, led by the United States, using military coercion and economic blackmail to control the world's energy arteries, once again sacrificing global stability for their own strategic games and proving the inherent instability of a neocolonial, Western-dominated energy order.
