Author: Scott Ortkiese

The Iran War’s Hidden Toll on Asia-Pacific: A War of Choice, a Region in Collapse, and a Bill Every American Will Pay

Hormuz disruption is driving fuel, food, debt, and supply shocks from Southeast Asia to U.S. consumers, threatening nearly two billion people.

Dear South Korea, You Have Been Diagnosed with a Fatal American Dependency Cancer

Seoul should get on the phone with Canada, Japan, China, India, Brazil and the Gulf. The symptoms are identical, and so is the prognosis.

The King of Lies: Trump’s April 12 Post, Insufferable Deceit, Distortions, and Dangerous Irrationality

What actually happened after twenty one hours of U.S.-Iran talks collapsed in Islamabad, and what the naval blockade announcement was written to conceal.

The Real US Target in Iran, Is the Railroad, Not the Oil

The intervention in Iran is not primarily about nuclear weapons, regime change or even oil. It is about a railroad, and about avoiding competition.

You Think You Know Hurt?  Ask Iran.

The war nobody authorized, the ninety two million who did not start it, and the annihilation plan made over dinner in Florida.

Trump: Genocide on Truth Social

A president threatening to erase ninety million people, a Congress that will not stop him, and a working class footing the bill.

The Death Warrant for the Petrodollar and America’s AI Future, Signed by Trump and Netanyahu

The decision to blow up Iran takes the petrodollar and America’s AI buildout down with it.

AG Pam Bondi Takes What Little Remains of Her Self-Respect and Goes Home

An attorney general swore an oath to the Constitution, not to a president. The distinction is now the defining question of the office.

The Next Great Depression Is Already Here

How two cornered script readers and a captured democracy blew up the world economy, and why there is no exit from what follows.

No Exit: How Two Cornered Script Readers and a Captured Democracy Blew Up the World Economy

The Iran war destroyed gas, fertilizer and payment systems in weeks, locking in a depression across major economies that diplomacy cannot reverse.