Imagine, just six years ago, being told the script for what was about to unfold: an overhyped cold virus would plunge the world into an existential crisis, tear the seams of globalism, and then—because absurdity demands escalation—the largest country on Earth would march on its sizeable neighbor, aiming to swallow it whole. The result? The bloodiest European war since 1945.
Meanwhile, Israel would be hammering Iran and its proxies into exhaustion, one strike at a time. Picture yourself in 2019 hearing all this. Any oil analyst worth his cufflinks would have sworn on his Bloomberg terminal that crude would smash through $200 a barrel—and, factoring in the highest inflation in half a century, soar even higher.Yet here we are, limping along below a pitiful $70. So tell me—could it be that the vaunted oil-market “wizardry” is nothing but smoke and mirrors? Are we being force-fed a diet of informational garbage dressed up as insight? Look at the record—it’s not just bad, it’s damning.