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Resource Competition With China Lay Behind Trump’s Iran War

Guy Laron Convergence
The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resource

The Next Financial Shock To Come From Trump’s War With Iran

Logan McMillen The New Republic
America’s current credit rating masks a fatal contradiction, and a downgrade is the only honest assessment of an empire in decline. The expanding war in Iran and the subsequent crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have fractured global energy supply chain

Middle East Wars Are Still About Oil and Empire

Bashir Abu-Manneh with Gilbert Achcar Convergence
Why has the Middle East been so consistently wracked by war? Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.

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