June 23, 2019, Strategic
Culture Foundation https://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/23/provoking-iran-could-start-a-war-and-crash-the-entire-world-economy/
Federico
Pieraccini*
Tensions in the Persian Gulf are reaching a point
of no return. In recent weeks, six
oil tankers have been subjected
to Israeli sabotage
disguised to look like Iranian attacks to induce the United States to take
military action against the Islamic Republic. Some days ago Iran rightfully
shot out of the sky a US Drone. In Yemen, the Houthis have finally
started responding with cruise and ballistic missiles to the Saudis’ indiscriminate
attacks, causing damage to the Saudi international airport of Abha, as well as
blocking, through explosive drones, Saudi oil transportation from east to west through one of the largest
pipelines in the world.
As if the political and military situation at this time were not tense and
complex enough, the two most important power groups
in the United States, the Fed and the military-industrial complex, both face
problems that threaten to diminish
Washington’s status as a world superpower.
The Fed could find itself defending the role of the US dollar as the
world reserve currency during any conflict in the Persian Gulf that would see the cost of oil rise to $300 a barrel, threatening trillions of
dollars in derivatives and toppling the global
economy.
The military-industrial complex would in turn be involved in a war that
it would struggle to contain and even win, destroying the United States’ image
of invincibility and inflicting a mortal blow on its ability to project power
to the four corners of the world.
