Here’s BB’s take on OPEC, the Empire’s petroleum consortium, and one that the mainstream of course is side-stepping:

“The producers of the East and South are already choosing abundance and flexibility, drawing inward in order to best project outward, and Trump is forcing the West to follow suit, even though he’s really leading the dance.

And the signal is beginning to peek through the noise.

The Europeans—and the broader Globalist Contingent, including Canada, Australia and even Japan and South Korea—are the ones most squeezed by this Pincer outside the regime itself.

Their clock is ticking on energy dependence, and in the growing agitation of their respective populations, who are now in the midst of a bit of a humiliation ritual pressure cooker that is forcing them to confront the stark reality of just how hollowed out their empire has truly been in the wake of the World Wars the ensuing NATO branding and the full alignment with a dominant US Military Industrial Complex the Collectorate controlled helped to obscure.

As DOE head Chris Wright signals what Trump has said all along—that the Strait can reopen without clearing every mine, and that “it can happen quickly” once the enemy submits—the implications are unmistakable.

The American side knows the timeline.

Which means the Iranians know the timeline, whoever the ‘Iranians’ might be these days.

In other words, the so-called regime is not the actual cartel being squeezed here. It is the proxy that outlived its usefulness, now being retired as the Sovereign Alliance forges the new architecture of the emergent Multipolar Age.

In other words, Trump is forcing the West into the very nationalist realignment already reshaping the Global East and South.

And again, he can do this all day, because we can do this all day.

The question that remains, then, is the following …

Can they?”

Nice work, Mr. Bright!  Thoughts?  What’s your takeaway?