THE IRAN WAR CHANGED EVERYTHING (AND ALMOST NO ONE HAS CAUGHT UP)
The war in Iran has dramatically restructured the world, and the political class is still talking like it hasn’t — at least in public.
When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in early March, twenty percent of global oil supply went offline overnight. The International Energy Agency called it the largest supply disruption in the history of the oil market. The long-term losers of that moment are not Iran. The long-term losers are every oil-producing nation on Earth, because the world looked at its oil dependence in a mirror and decided it was done.
Chinese exports of solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicles all hit record highs in March 2026. Solar, battery, and EV exports combined were up roughly 70% year-over-year. Pakistan, which spent the last few years quietly importing cheap Chinese solar, is saving billions while its neighbors panic at the pump. China is now the renewables superpower of the planet — operating three times the wind and solar capacity of the United States and India combined.
America still holds a short-term advantage because of our domestic oil and gas production. But “short-term advantage” is exactly the trap. If we use this moment to double down on drilling instead of racing to solarize the country, we will hand the next century to Beijing while we kill the oceans and cook the climate paying for the privilege.
Solar is the only sane answer. Not because it’s morally pure. Because it is the only energy source that does not require us to keep extracting things from a planet that is screaming at us to stop.
Our Real Neighbors - Mexico and Canada
The Colorado River does not recognize borders. Neither does air, drought, pandemics, wildfires, or toxic dust storms filled with compounds that kill people in dried up lake beds.
The only intelligent response to a continental crisis is continental cooperation. We need to be working hand-in-glove with Canada and Mexico — and with Central and South America — on water management, energy infrastructure, food production, and migration. Mexico and Canada are not threats to be walled off. They are the partners we should be working the closest with to ensure our collective survival.
And yet our current administration is doing the exact opposite. They are deporting the very people whose labor feeds us, constructs our homes, highways and high-rises, as Trump and his billionaire friends are building cages for our actual neighbors (and anyone else who opposes them) picking trade fights with the countries we share rivers with, and treating Mexico like an enemy state while Beijing builds solar farms across three continents. This is not strength. This is a strategic catastrophe authored by men who confuse cruelty with toughness.
The current direction of American foreign policy — tariffs against Canada, mass deportations of Mexicans and Central Americans, contempt for the global cooperation we need to survive the climate emergency — is being driven by a small group of extraordinarily rich men who have decided that the rest of us exist to make their portfolios grow. Musk, Thiel, Schwarzman, Fink, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc. and the political class they have purchased are not building the future. They are looting the present so they can rule whatever’s left.
I do not accept that future. I do not believe most Americans accept that future. We have simply been told there is no alternative. Together we can change everything and actually create an America and World that Works for Everyone.