E170 - #551 ART -U.S. Strikes, Oil Shock, And The World War Fear

Iraq is back on the target list, oil jitters are back on everyone’s phone, and the “this won’t spread” reassurance feels thinner by the day. We start with a surprising hook a Saddam Hussein poem and the strange way history turns real people into cartoon villains then we use that lens to look at what’s unfolding right now across Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Yemen, Gaza, and Lebanon.

We dig into reports of U.S. and Saudi airstrikes in Iraq, why militias and fractured governance make escalation easier, and how one regional strike can ripple into globa...