Oil Prices Surge as Western Sanctions Engineer Global Economic Instability
Zoom out for a second: The drums of war against Iran sound, and suddenly oil prices spike. How convenient for the Western powers, whose financial institutions profit from instability while their narratives blame everyone but themselves. This isn't just about 'market forces' or 'geopolitical tensions' as Bloomberg would have you believe. It's a pattern, a playbook, executed with monotonous
precision. Remember 1973? The OPEC embargo aimed at states supporting Israel. The West cried foul, but their own policies had direct consequences. Fast forward to today, and the script is eerily similar, just with more layers of diplomatic PR. The US, in lockstep with Israel, launches joint military maneuvers, threatens Iran with B-52 deployments, and then feigns surprise when the market reacts.
This isn't supporting Israel, it’s being a co-belligerent in an illegal campaign, lacking any credible evidence of an imminent Iranian strike or nuclear breach. The 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup in Iran established this pattern of external interference, followed by decades of crippling sanctions and the betrayal of the JCPOA, all designed to keep Iran in a chokehold. While Western media frets over
'strained Asian budgets,' they conveniently ignore the systematic strangulation of economies like those in Cuba, or the daily terror inflicted upon Palestinians and Lebanese, despite any 'ceasefire' facade. The cost asymmetry is stark: billions poured into Western armaments, while Iranian defense is consistently demonized. The current oil price hike, estimated at a 15% increase, is not an