Saudi Arabia
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The Energy Wars and the Coming Crisis of Western Capitalism
How the struggle for control over global oil resources is driving imperial conflict and threatening systemic financial collapse Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are not conflicts between nations over territory or ideology but battles in a broader struggle for control over the global energy system and the… Continue reading
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The Kingdom That Cannot Sell Its Oil: How Yemen and Iran Have Trapped Saudi Arabia
Riyadh’s export lifelines are severed, its allies are wavering, and its American patron has no spare capacity to save it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The suspension of all crude oil loadings from the Red Sea port of Yanbu represents the most severe disruption to Saudi Arabia’s oil export capacity since the kingdom began exporting… Continue reading
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The Lemon on a Stick: Saudi Arabia’s Structural Weakness and the Case for a Saudi-First Strategy
Why a kingdom that spends $83 billion on its military cannot defend its own oil infrastructure, and why the only rational course is to put its own house in order before it is too late Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The assessment that Saudi Arabia appears as weak and confused as any country in the… Continue reading
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The Energy Shock That Washington Pretended Wasn’t Happening
How the suppression of price signals turned a supply disruption into a systemic crisis, and why the costs are being borne by those who had no part in creating it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The war that began on 28 February 2026 with joint United States and Israeli strikes on Tehran and several other… Continue reading
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Yemen Just Changed the Rules of the War
Yemen’s Defense Minister Just Put Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Manama on Notice Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The statement by Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi that the next battle will not remain in Yemen but will penetrate deep into the territories of the aggressor coalition nations was not an isolated rhetorical flourish from a marginal… Continue reading
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Order Out of Chaos: The Architecture of Permanent Conflict
An independent analysis of the post-9/11 order, its institutional drivers, and the material consequences of hegemonic overreach Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The comment that Benjamin Netanyahu made on the evening of 11 September 2001, when asked by the New York Times what the attacks meant for relations between the United States and Israel, has… Continue reading
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Trump Declines Direct Strikes as Houthis Tighten Hold on the Red Sea
Public reassurances in Dublin contrast with CENTCOM coordination in Riyadh and the shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline after the fall of Mokha General Article | September 2026 President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters in Dublin on 12 September after meeting Irish leaders, stated that the Houthis had contacted the United States and did not… Continue reading
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Yemen’s Ansarallah “aka Houthi’s” Take Mokha
The fall of Yemen’s last major western port brings Houthi forces within striking distance of the Bab el-Mandeb and exposes the limits of Saudi and American air power General Article | September 2026 Saudi Arabia poked a beehive. Yemeni forces aligned with Ansarallah have taken the Red Sea port city of Mokha and its airport,… Continue reading
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Nowhere To Run
How America’s War on Iran Has Exposed the Limits of Military Power, the Fragility of Financial Hegemony, and the Terminal Decline of Western Imperialism Editorial Analysis | August 2026 The war on Iran, which American planners confidently predicted would conclude within four to six weeks, has instead become a grinding conflict that is consuming the… Continue reading
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The Petro-less Dollar
How Washington’s War on Iran Has Undermined the Financial Foundation of American Power The interruption of crude oil trade through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea has produced an outcome that Washington’s strategic planners almost certainly did not anticipate when they launched military operations against Iran in February 2026 (1). Throughout the entire… Continue reading
