THE IRAN CONFLICT

By Hanne Nabintu Herland - Human Synthesis-26 April 2026

The financial part behind the Iran conflict that the newspapers don't talk about: We are currently experiencing a geopolitical-economic shift that underscores the US' increasing role in the fight over who controls global energy security. The United States seeks to replace British City of London's financial dominance and globalist free trade dominance with a new global order rooted in concrete industrial power and national sovereignty.

The conflict at Hormuz strait reflects, among other things, this perspective is not mentioned much. It is nothing less than a geopolitical earthquake that intends to end the globalist, borderless system and replace it with a national-interest, national sovereignty system that China is also interested in. The Chinese way of conducting international trade is, as we know, far more focused on national interests. (Link to an article where a leading Chinese explains China's perspective in the comments section below, for those unfamiliar with this perspective.)

The new economic paradigm that is being tried to implement is based on cooperation between sovereign national states, rooted in common industrial-economic traditions - and Europe is not included. This leaves a globalist oriented, green energy - soft power Europe in a further weakened situation. Recently this became clear again by the fact that NATO and the G7s decided not to contribute to securing the Strait of Hormuz in the current Iran conflict, the critical bottleneck area between Iran and the Gulf states, which accounts for 20% of the world's oil trade.

Note that the United States is self-sufficient with a daily production of approximately 12 million barrels of oil, and so is Russia with 11 million barrels a day. Whoever controls the Strait of Hormuz controls the bottleneck of energy supplies from the Arab states and Iran to India, China and all of Southeast Asia. The strife is "not owned" by Iran, but it is now used as a press outlet in the international struggle for power.

China alone imports about 11 million barrels a day, 60% of which comes from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran and the UAE through the Strait of Hormuz. Also note that the Gulf states are backing Trump in the offensive as they also do not want Iran to run the region. And note that it is Pakistan and the Gulf states - not European countries - who negotiated the first peace negotiations.

About 84% of the oil passing through the Strait goes to Asia, distributed between China, India, Japan and South Korea. Therefore, it is China and Asia that will mainly suffer under the US blockade that is currently being implemented, and China will then push Iran to an explanation since Iran's oil supplies China via Hormuz.

The United States' increasing control over global energy security is directly correlated to the situation in Venezuela, where most of the country's oil went to China. And before that, the controversy surrounding the Panama Canal, where the canal was practically controlled by China in the US's own backyard. The ongoing conflict in Iran is just the next step in the same direction, as most of Iran's energy supplies also go to China, paid in the yuan and not in the dollar.

Trump is considering whether Cuba is his next target, also a country with close ties with both Russia and China.The crisis over control of the Strait of Hormuz is another stepping stone for the United States to weaken its opponents. It's also supported by regional allies in the Gulf region who do not want Iran to control their backyard, and are now considering pipelines to avoid the conflict completely.

And it is very threatening that a nation like Iran, which does not "own" the conflict after all, has such strong control over the international traffic there - along with British banks from the City of London that have controlled the boat insurance financing.To achieve an economic turnaround in line with the "America First" principle and domestic growth, the international power game must change in the interest of the United States.

That's what Trump is trying to do now. Domestic growth is inseparably linked to securing strategic interests internationally as trade balance is an international affair. You cannot achieve one without the other.This is what American podcasters that Tucker Carlson can't understand. He understands the American debate, but not in international context where he has zero experience and shows a remarkable inability to understand how the world works outside of the US borders.

Because of his naivety and incompetence on the global sphere, thus dependence on third party sources, he is easily lured to serve the globalist mainstream agenda. Tucker Carlson has thus become the most important tool for Democrats to split the MAGA movement, hoping to crush President Trump's "America First" agenda. When President Trump recently criticized NATO for failing the test by failing to come to the rescue to secure the Strait of Hormuz, he hinted that the United States no longer feels obligated to defend its European allies.

Trump stated that in the war on European soil between Ukraine and Russia, the United States came to Europe's rescue. When America asked for help to escort ships safely through the Strait, the Europeans refused to help. Europe does not want to help its allies secure the world's most important energy supply in a crisis situation. Now the entire NATO alliance is under threat.«This will be the funeral of the transatlantic order, where NATO and the City of London's financial dominance have played their roles.

The City of London is done as strategic partners," says Barbara Boyd, author, legal assistant and leader of Promethean Action.Boyd's point is that the Iran conflict is not only a regional crisis in the Middle-East, but also a financial war and a systematic collapse of the British empire's financial system, especially the City of London's control of the global insurance and commodity markets.City of London's financial hegemony - the British Empire's financial weapon - has dominated the West for decades.

London’s historic dominance in maritime insurance and financial risk control is now being replaced by the U.S. Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in partnership with U.S. Central Command. The American government agency is now drawing marine trade insurance in the Gulf region, thereby replacing Lloyd's of London.This shift will undermine the City of London’s 300-year-old control over global maritime insurance if successful, signaling a structural economic transition of enormous dimensions.

US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, recently described this change in a cabinet meeting, read the article below. Capital is now flowing into physical U.S. industries such as energy, mining, industry, nuclear power, and defense, underlining a shift from globalist financial speculation to concrete economic productivity in America, not just China.

This is exactly what America First is all about.