TinDrum

'Trump isn’t merely ending a set of diplomatic arrangements or a particular configuration of great-power relations. He is presiding over the end of the fossil-fueled model of industrial civilization that made the liberal order possible...instigated by the manifest instability posed by climate change and rivalrous oil-access impediments like the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. But he has ensured a rivalrous competition, rather than a smooth transition, to replace it'

#fossilFuels #iran #israel #middleEast #trump #geoPolitics

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/23/climate-change-world-order-green-transition-fossil-fuel/

Electrostates vs. Petrostates

China is building a new green bloc, while the United States is doubling down on oil.

Foreign Policy
Mar 24 at 6:28amWeb
Show threadTinDrum17h ago
'This is an **ecological cold war**, and it differs from its predecessor in ways that matter enormously. The original Cold War was a contest between liberal capitalism and Soviet communism—between two theories of how human societies should develop themselves economically and organize themselves politically. The new cold war is a contest between competing metabolisms'