Sputnik published an analytical article by Pepe Escobar, a Brazilian-born independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia, which argues that the real strategic motive behind the U.S.-Israel war on Iran is to target the BRICS. Under the headline “Empire of Chaos Takes War on BRICS to Next Level,” Escobar wrote:
“They came. They bunker-busted. They fled.… What really matters is that the Empire of Chaos, in a single—spectacularly criminal—raid, bunker-busted the UN charter (again); international law (again); the NPT (perhaps for good); the U.S. constitution; the ‘international community’; and Trump’s own MAGA base.”
He noted that Iran’s strongest retaliatory card would be to block the Strait of Hormuz. “The loss of over 20% of the world’s oil supply will trigger the implosion of over two quadrillion dollars of derivatives, as was already speculated by Goldman Sachs projections in the late 2010s. Warren Buffett described it as a chain reaction after a nuclear explosion.”
Noting that Iran is a top BRICS nation, Escobar continued, “and the Empire war is fundamentally a war against BRICS.” He then cited the “inestimable Prof. Michael Hudson,” whom he quotes as stating: “Iran is not only the capstone to full control of the Near East and its oil and dollar holdings. Iran is a key link for China’s Belt and Road program for a New Silk Road of railway transport to the West. If the United States can overthrow the Iranian government, this interrupts the long transportation corridor that China already has constructed and hopes to extend further west. Iran also is a key to blocking Russian trade and development via the Caspian Sea and access to the south, bypassing the Suez Canal. And under U.S. control, an Iranian client regime could threaten Russia from its southern flank.”
