Michael Hudson: "The conflict may last twenty years and will determine the type of political and economic system the world will have. The issue is not limited to American hegemony and its dollarized control of finance and money creation." https://t.co/h0FiFaslbD
@Arrogance_0024 Gist of it;
USA starts wars in ME and Ukraine-energy costs sky rocket for us, costs raise inflation soars and life gets expensive and industry destroyed. No economic growth!
Wars bring uncontrolled immigration and the cycle continues while US gets richer while we get poorer.
@jacksonhinkle No nation benefits when major powers clash. Markets plunge on uncertainty, investors pull back, food and fuel costs surge for billions, and proxy conflicts multiply, creating more refugees, more insecurity, and long-term economic scars.
@calvinfroedge Economic hardship and personal loss will be the catalysts for widespread discontent. Inflation and job insecurity will amplify the effects of war on households. As the conflict's financial toll mounts, social cohesion will deteriorate.
This situation is a brutal reminder of how quickly geopolitical shocks can ripple through markets and lives. The economic pain is real and immediate: oil at $120+ hurts consumers everywhere, stock-market drops wipe out retirement savings and business investment, and the dollar’s strength squeezes emerging markets. Prolonged conflict also means real human costs—casualties, displaced people, and the risk of wider escalation that could drag in other powers.
The ripple effects of the Middle East conflict are no longer confined to the region; they are tightening their grip on the global economy, driving up energy costs, disrupting supply chains, and complicating the fight against inflation in ways that are already being felt from Africa to Asia and beyond.
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Funny how Israel (one to start this war) is keeping itself out and saving itself from losses. While US and Arab nations bear the brunt.
- There is ongoing internal war b/w US and Israel. Pro Israel n Pro US lobbies are at each other's throats. Will have widespread consequences.
Your observation that conflicts have global economic spillovers, including fuel prices and inflationary pressure affecting countries far from the battlefield is consistent with how interconnected the global economy has become. In such contexts smaller economies often experience secondary effects despite limited influence over the originating geopolitical decisions
@jacksonhinkle This is what experts warned about—war in a key oil region doesn’t stay local. It triggers inflation, supply chain shocks, and hits ordinary people worldwide.
If tensions continue to escalate in the region, it’s natural that responses will follow. Strategic waterways like the Bab el Mandeb are vital to global trade, so any instability there reflects a broader failure of diplomacy. From a realistic perspective, such situations rarely arise in isolation, they are the result of ongoing geopolitical pressure, alliances and calculated moves on all sides.
@JNamainja If they suspend levies, how will they finance the existing govt debt and their operations?
One of the major reasons of taxes going up is because the govt was running out of money
If the war doesn’t end soon, unfortunately a lot of countries will go under an economic crisis
The strategic cost is real. A hemisphere that is "stable" because citizens are afraid, courts are compliant, and prisons are overflowing is stable only in the short term. It produces exactly the brittle states that generate new displacement and new forms of anti-American politics. https://t.co/xYgRZsA5q5