Source: Antiwar.com
by Alan Mosley
“War with Iran is being sold as ‘strategy,’ but it looks a lot like habit. A familiar pattern repeats: vague objectives, elastic legal theories, and a confident promise that the costs will be contained. Then the bill arrives anyway, in blood, money, and credibility. In this round, the costs are already visible in the most predictable place: energy. Fighting that threatens traffic through the Strait of Hormuz does not just ‘hurt the other side.’ It shakes a chokepoint that, in 2024, carried about 20 million barrels per day of oil, roughly 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption. Markets do not care about speeches. They price risk, and they pass it along to households and firms. Calling this ‘a small price’ is not analysis. It is marketing” (03/13/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/alan_mosley/2026/03/12/the-war-on-iran-is-dumb-heres-why/