Sachith Sebastian

🇨🇳🇮🇷 The Iran war has done something no climate summit ever could: It’s convinced governments worldwide that relying on oil from the Middle East is a vulnerability they can no longer afford Problem is, every alternative leads straight through Beijing Chinese companies dominate solar panels, high-voltage cables, transformers, grid batteries, the software that manages energy flows Not to mention, nearly every rare earth metal needed to build any of it A researcher at Trivium China put it simply: "You're not going to compete with China at this point.” Washington started a war to weaken Iran and reassert dominance over the world's most important energy corridor But the immediate winner appears to be the country that spent the last two decades building every alternative to it America disrupted the old energy order, but China is firmly in the driver’s seat when it comes to the future of energy And this war just made every country on earth acutely aware of this Source: NYT

Fun fact: In the 1980s, Israel offered India to bomb Pakistan’s nuclear program, but India refused.