The mechanisms through which COVID destabilized economies of the world was fear and lockdowns (governments’ restrictions on freedom of movement). With the benefit of hindsight, we sadly now know there was a globalist agenda at the driver’s seat whether you believe the virus was manufactured in the lab or it was a natural occurrence. When you consider the parallel global effects of the conflict at “the heart of the world” or “middle of the world” one has to deeply contemplate.
Is the Iran war the second of their many series of “pandemic” that they have told us are definitely coming? Is a COVID-like globalists’ strategy at play when it comes to the Iran war? Do we really think the people who are involved in this war’s decisions are deaf or stupid? Deaf that they are not tuned in to thousands of bright minds elaborating what should be obvious regarding cascading effects when crude oil and helium doesn’t flow through the Strait of Hormuz. Stupid that they do not know what it’s their job to know regarding the importance of the Strait of Hormuz to the global economy? Aren’t these the same intelligent questions we asked during COVID when the actions and pronouncements by compromised scientists and political leaders seemed foolishly shocking? The phenomenon that I’ll call The Fauci-Effect that was so blatant that it momentarily rendered us impotent in disbelief and anger.
The disbelief when they told us to social distance at the airport terminal when getting into an airplane while masked but shortly sat tightly packed next to each other when in the airplane and we all ate with our masks off at the same time? When they told us to social distance in the congestion of a slum? We marveled at the stupidity of the COVID-scientist but we now know playing stupid was the genius. Are they at it again? Is economic stupidity the new genius? A Crude genius indeed?
When you consider that wars are about economics first and foremost, it’s foolhardy to think the U.S. went to war with Iran without simulating the economic effects it would have globally or on the minimum on the U.S. The effect on the closure of Strait of Hormuz using mines on the minimum by Iran was well known decades before as the immediate retaliatory act by Iran before the first missile was fired according to USNI News. In the last few years Shahed drones capabilities were known to the U.S. when Iran supplied them to Russia in their war with Ukraine.
Every discipline from Accounting, Engineering, Networking, Military, Logistics to Medicine is confronted by bottle-necks or constraints and employs different strategies to overcome or mitigate them where they present. Solutions range from creating parallel systems, engaging a mix of suppliers or setting-up operations in divergent regions to mitigate its effect. Bottle-neck mapping is at the heart of any field’s risk-management strategy. In fact, Iran’s Asymmetric Doctrine and more precisely their Mosaic Defense Strategy is truly the science of dealing with leadership, command, logistical and military bottle-necks which has given them a historical upper hand against their formidable enemy the U.S.
When there is a geographical bottle-neck called Strait of Hormuz that facilitates 20% of global energy and 30% of fertilizer chemicals and 35% of helium, its closure must have been simulated by governments and corporations alike many times. Those governments would include the U.S. which was entering planting season when it launched the first missile, China that buys 40% of the crude from Middle East that flows through the choke-point and South Korea that needs 65% of the helium from the ‘middle of the world’ for chip-manufacturing. The aviation industry whose biggest variable cost is jet fuel must have played this simulation and immediate mitigating strategies which included canceling thousands of flights as they become uneconomical almost immediately.
Airlines were particularly aware not just of the oil cost implications but the choke-point that is the Middle East as most global travelers must hub there as they move from east and west and vice versa. A bottle-neck built on top of bottle-neck: was this aviation bottle-neck an accident or a strategy?
When you consider that many solutions that are being thrown at us no less by the IEA and the likes for climate change mitigation include less air travel, use of public transportation, using solar for home energy needs, switching to electric cars and growing your own food it rings power bells now as is during COVID. Each of these new goals aim to reduce use of fossil fuels. Is the Iran war the trigger mechanism to induce this ‘Crude new normal’? Transition to renewable and clean energy was a big discuss at Davos 2026 especially as electricity was identified as a bottle-neck to IA building of new Data Centers. When you consider that goals exit by Transition Energy Council to triple renewable energy by 2030 and near zero emissions by 2050 globally you see a clear pattern.
When you also consider the COVID-hardened globalist groups enforcing these series of ‘new normals’ also consider population reduction as a goal of theirs to “heal the planet”, more alarms go off. Is the famine that will ensue a strategy rather than a mere accident of war?
Further, is the Middle-East population of 500 million a target of population reduction when you consider desalination technology is what makes their populous lives possible in these thirsty deserts? Populations especially in GCC countries that seat on bottle-necks of bottle-necks of bottle-necks. Water bottle-neck, food bottle-neck, crude-oil bottle-neck to their revenue, aviation bottle-neck to their revenue, tourism bottle-neck to revenue, migrant worker bottle-neck to their economy all being destroyed through a geographical bottle-neck called the Strait of Hormuz. And we are to believe that the U.S. is waking up to this reality a month after the first missile struck Iran?
The distillate of all these foreknown realities is simple: globalists who have representation in every country and industry are aware of the choke-hold effects that the Strait of Hormuz has on the global economy. If they were malicious enough to use a deadly pathogen that literally killed millions of people globally in drawn out air-hunger or suffocation to enforce their globalist-will, they have no reason NOT to use the same effects now avalanching towards us from ‘Wuhan’ oil market. The Strait of Hormuz is the new Wuhan.
To say that the U.S. is losing this war is to be blind to the global picture with all the gears moving like a well oiled machine for people who were in charge of the global agenda during COVID. There is no reason to believe they are not sitting in The White House’s Situation Room midwifing this crisis that serves their convoluted many ends. The war is going exactly as intended and the effects are the intended HARVEST. The harvest is Global Inflation, Economic Depression, Debt Distress, Famine, Asset Devaluation which will all lead to the second greatest Wealth Transfer since COVID. This is the playbook from my vantage point. The playbook that was published with seemingly stupid-rules that insulted our intelligence during COVID but we have failed to read it in this conflict of choice in Iran.
Countries like the Philippines are already experiencing chaos and economic disruptions due to fuel and natural gas shortages. These are prophetic images of what Italy was in the first stages of COVID. The Philippines is the crude prototype. Then the production ‘virus’ is making its way to industrious region of the world Vietnam, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. You get the idea of how the ‘virus’ is conveniently spreading. With this morbid globalist strategy, governments will not need to enforce lock-down policies, the lack of fuel is the enforcement. With no movement of people and goods no economy exists and COVID-like devastation will be on its way to creating the next wave of distress and conditions of land and wealth transfer to globalists and their many instruments.
No economic activity translates to zero or severely diminished income (revenue) for governments, corporations and individuals. Some governments will avoid default by borrowing at higher interest rates against national prime assets. Others will not be able to withstand the debt distress midwived at the Strait of Hormuz and their prime assets (or income) promised earlier to international lenders will switch hands. Corporations including banks will go bankrupt which means they will be acquired by those who financed them with priority bonds or senior secured bonds. Personal bankruptcies will result in foreclosures and disease burden in mental and cardiovascular maladies. If it sounds like what happened in COVID it is because we are in the middle of a similar ‘pandemic’. Hijacking public health policies was the mechanism then, hijacking global oil markets is the mechanism now.
The debt distress will also create conditions in many countries to effect regime changes that can be puppetered by the globalist. Win after win after win for architects of this crude ‘pandemic’ as we get tormented in debt-distress, depression, collapse, pain and death.
In a few months acute food shortage will hit the headlines as the effects of fertilizer shortage reflect on lack of food production. The UN has already issued a warning that 45 million people will be added to the already shocking 318 million globally who are experiencing acute food shortages due to the Iran War. Read that to mean famine that will definitely be severe enough in some countries to kill millions. Just like COVID, for those that have loudly and boldly told us that it’s their life mission to reduce the global population, this to them is just another tool to assist the Devil.
Today, April 13th 2026 after Peace-Talks between the U.S and Iran failed in Pakistan, the U.S. will blockade the Strait of Hormuz that Iran has already blocked. Is the U.S saying it will choke the world because Iran is choking the world? Make that make sense; unless stupid is the evil genius!
Are we seeing a mitigation strategy to the optics of ‘losing’ while maintaining the strangle-hold until we enter the new ‘crude normal’? Perhaps this is the policy: The strangle must be maintained if Iran is thinking of relaxing it!
I hope I am wrong! I hope I am wrong!!!
Some updates were made to the original Article on April 21st 2026
Written by Robert Mwangi, MBA
Author of the Books President’s Advisor,
Money Circles, Five Fingers
& Dollar Altar Available at Amazon and Lulu.com.

Further Reading:
The Middle East or the Middle World?
Straight of Hormuz (Fact Sheet) https://www.iea.org/about/oil-security-and-emergency-response/strait-of-hormuz
Mine the Gap: Iranians and the Strait of Hormuz, https://news.usni.org/2012/06/17/mine-gap-iranians-and-strait .
WFP projects food insecurity could reach record levels as a result of Middle East escalation, https://www.wfp.org/news/wfp-projects-food-insecurity-could-reach-record-levels-result-middle-east-escalation
Virma Simonette ‘We are being choked’: Philippines transport workers strike over fuel costs https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4glxn24gd6o
‘The planting season is now,’ but war in Iran has sparked a global fertilizer shortage https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/the-planting-season-is-now-but-war-in-iran-has-sparked-a-global-fertilizer-shortage
Actions for a healthy planet https://www.un.org/en/actnow/ten-actions
Energy Transition Council https://energytransitioncouncil.org/about/#:~:text=2024%20priorities,as%20events%20such%20as%20COPs.
About COP28
https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/conferences/un-climate-change-conference-united-arab-emirates-nov/dec-2023/about-cop-28#:~:text=COP%2028%20is%20an%20opportunity,is%20already%20happening%20and%20ultimately
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