Trump, the Iran war and the announced stagflation
While the Trumpist right was demonizing Agenda 2030 as a globalist plot to impoverish the West, Donald Trump's foreign policy may be causing exactly that scenario: an energy crisis that triggers stagflation and widespread impoverishment. A report from international funds picked up by Vozpopuli already warns that the oil surge will bring stagflation within three months, and the trigger is none other than Trump's war against Iran, which sabotages and destroys oil and gas supplies for years.
The energy shock and its consequences
The conflict with Iran has sent the price of crude soaring, and with it the threat of a global recession with runaway inflation. The paradox is that the man who promised to end the Middle East wars and lower gasoline prices is right now doing the opposite. Some point out that this is not a mistake but part of the plan: destroy the world economy in order to rebuild it under a new order, the very one attributed to Agenda 2030. Meanwhile, the stock market keeps hitting all-time highs, although, as has been noted, Lehman Brothers also seemed like a safe bet before it collapsed.
Peak oil vs. political conspiracy
One school of analysis holds that what we are seeing is not a political conspiracy but the inevitable peak oil that was already being predicted back in 2018. Cheap energy is over, and now countries are fighting tooth and nail over the last remaining resources. Agenda 2030, with its windmills and batteries, was the elite's failed attempt to keep the system going; now that it has failed, we are back to brawling and authoritarianism. In contrast, those who defend the conspiracy theory point out that giant new oil fields are discovered every year, and that the problem is not physical scarcity but the political decision not to exploit them or to manipulate prices. However, the extraction cost of these new fields is key: it is not enough for them to exist, they must be profitable at affordable prices.
The question left hanging is whether humanity was doomed to this outcome by peak oil, or whether the decisions of a few are accelerating the inevitable adjustment. What seems clear is that, whether deliberately or not, Trump is applying the prescription many attributed to his enemies: a global economic crisis that forces the population to accept draconian measures. And all of it with the complicity of markets that keep dancing on the edge of the abyss.
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