The Fracturing of the World Order
Documentary casts new light on Iran’s importance.
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Military conflict
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz in part or full, lasting a month or more could push crude prices into triple digits, disrupt global trade, and trigger inflationary pressures across energy, food, and consumer goods. Markets are pricing in significant disruption. [AI-generated answer].
Conflict That Reveals the Structure of Global Power
By Laala Bechetoula
Via Global Research
Mar 05, 2026
Empires almost never collapse in a sudden crash. They begin by waging wars they present as necessary.
The war launched on February 28, 2026 against Iran by the United States and Israel may belong to that category of events which, at the moment they occur, appear to be merely another regional crisis — but which, in retrospect, reveal themselves as turning points in the architecture of the international system.
Behind airstrikes and diplomatic communiqués lies a far larger question: the capacity of the contemporary world order to maintain its coherence in the face of accelerating rivalry between major powers.
The targeted elimination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei followed a now-classical military doctrine: strategic decapitation. The logic is simple — neutralize the decision-making center of a regime in order to trigger the rapid disintegration of its entire political and military apparatus. But this assumption presupposes pre-existing institutional fragility. Iran is neither a young state nor a politically isolated regime. It is embedded in a deep historical and institutional continuum that endows its political system with a capacity to absorb shocks rarely observed in contemporary states.
Iran’s response — swift and multidirectional — immediately transformed a bilateral confrontation into a major regional crisis. This trajectory illuminates a deeper reality: the international system remains structured by a hierarchy of power dominated by the Washington–Tel Aviv axis, yet that structure today appears more brittle than it did in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War.
The Gulf: Security Architecture and Strategic Vulnerability
For several decades, the security of the Gulf monarchies rested on a simple equation: energy resources in exchange for American military protection. This model was consolidated through installation of U.S. military bases across the region and the progressive integration of Gulf economies into global financial circuits.
The Abraham Accords added a further dimension to this architecture by normalizing relations between several Arab states and Israel — implicitly aiming to build a strategic bloc capable of containing Iranian influence.
The current war has exposed the limits of this system. American military infrastructure, energy installations and financial centers across the Gulf have now become direct strategic targets.
By striking installations in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait, Iran sent an unambiguous signal: states that host the instruments of American military projection can no longer claim genuine neutrality in a regional conflict. The very infrastructures that enabled the region’s economic rise have become points of exposure in a context of open military confrontation.
The Strait of Hormuz: Geography as Power
At the heart of this crisis lies a geographical space whose significance extends far beyond the region: the Strait of Hormuz. This narrow maritime passage — barely 50 kilometers wide at its most constricted point and 212 kilometers long — constitutes the world economy’s primary energy transit chokepoint.
The vulnerability of this corridor is compounded by the near-absence of viable alternatives. Twenty % of the world’s oil moves through that narrow channel. Marine traffic there is now down to just 10 percent.
In an economic system dependent on uninterrupted energy flows, geography thus acquires a strategic value comparable to that of conventional military capabilities. Former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance once described the strait as “the jugular vein of the West” — a characterization that has never been more apt.
Fractures
The fracture at issue here is not merely military. It is a fracture of legitimacy. A system that presents wars as necessities while sheltering opaque networks of power; that invokes international law for some and ignores it for others; that proclaims freedom of navigation while concentrating control over chokepoints — such a system produces, by its own logic, the conditions of its contestation.
In the contemporary international order, the rule is not the law — it is the power that decides when the law applies.
The question may no longer be who will win the current war. The question is whether the international system that made it possible can survive the world it has itself contributed to creating. And whether civilizations that have long endured its rules will have, this time, the intellectual coherence and political will to propose something else. Continues at https://michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/suez-tehran-war-against-iran-fracturing-world-order
The Golden Corridor
Pepe Escobar’s documentary casts new light on Iran’s importance to both Russia and China in creating a new international economic order free of US coercion and bullying. If Pepe is right, Iran is poised to play a critical role in the global economy during the remainder of the 21st Century. Continues at
https://www.presstv.ir/doc/Detail/2026/02/18/764305/Golden-Corridor-
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Doreen Agostino
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