Energy dominance could allow the United States to overtake China around the world through the use of soft power.
The war in Gaza—like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Western-led conflict in Libya, and other Middle Eastern proxy battles—has laid bare the limits of Chinese and Iranian influence and underscored the region’s growing interdependence on external powerhouses. A recent analysis highlights how Tehran’s prolonged military engagements, further constrained by economic sanctions and logistical shortfalls, are, more often than not, manageable by US and Western-aligned forces.
But amid this geopolitical flux, a subtler…
