162 America’s Alliances Shift When Oil Gets Tight

Send us Fan Mail Oil prices jump, alliances wobble, and suddenly “foreign policy” turns into a bill you feel at home. We dig into the Iran conflict chatter, why access to airspace and US bases becomes a bargaining chip, and how OPEC, pipelines, and shipping chokepoints can quietly decide who has leverage. Along the way, we pressure-test the stories people tell about gas prices by pulling in inflation, taxation, and what it means when Europe and Asia get hit harder than the US. Then we switch...