For nearly half a decade, the global geopolitical landscape has been stuck in a state of permanent turbulence. The protracted war in Ukraine, the protectionist tariff regimes of the Trump presidency, and the volatile escalation of hostilities between the United States, Israel, and Iran are no longer distant regional frictions. Their tremors have rewritten the global order and weaponized transnational supply chains. In today’s splintered global order, nations are ruthlessly pr

The UAE’s exit from the OPEC signals not just a rupture in oil diplomacy, but a shift toward a more buyer-friendly energy order. For much of the modern economic age, oil has been less a commodity than a lever of power. Industrial growth, geopolitical alignments and even wars have turned on access to crude. For decades, that lever was held firmly in Western hands by the clutch of companies famously dubbed the ‘Seven Sisters’ that dominated the global oil trade from the 1920s t