🇬🇧 My country of the UK is now feeling the brunt of the war.
UK inflation has jumped to 3.1% thanks to the Iran turbocharging energy and fuel prices.
This is exactly what people meant when we said this war wouldn’t stay in the Middle East.
Oil goes up. Fuel goes up. Transport gets more expensive. Then food, shipping, flights, shopping, everything else.
And it’s not Trump and his family making billions from insider trading who pay. It’s not the people deciding which school or wedding to strike next who pay either. It’s their billionaire donors or the corporations making billions from business contracts off the back of this.
We do. We pay.
The government calls it “difficult decisions” like eating our vegetables like we’re kids who don’t know better. But ordinary people are paying for those decisions every time we fill up the car, pay an energy bill or walk around a supermarket. And for what?
A fading empire? The longer the war disrupts energy routes, the more incentive countries have to secure their own supply chains, diversify their trade and reduce dependence AWAY from Western-controlled systems.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing with BRICS. This summit in India is big news, and no one is talking about it.
BRICS leaders are pushing for greater use of national currencies, reform away from Western financial institutions and systems controlled by the West.
They’re no longer doing this in secret meetings, they’re creating a new world order out in the open.
Once enough countries to decide they don’t want to depend on the old master anymore.. it’s over.
And every sanction, every war and every energy shock accelerates that process. Trump is speedrunning this. U.S. ability to dictate the rules to everyone else is vanishing in real time.
That’s one silver lining, but we are paying for the transition.