U.S. Energy Independence Is Fueling Iran’s Middle East Power Grab

The global economy, international geopolitics, and intra-national security have hinged upon oil production capacity and petrol markets so thoroughly that it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t always this way. As the Brookings Institution once wrote of oil, “In the modern era, no other commodity has played such a pivotal role in driving political and economic turmoil, and there is every reason to expect this to continue.

” Furthermore, it’s easy to forget that all of this is, in fact, quite recent history. Saudi Arabia…