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In week 4 of the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression on Iran, the global economy has been pushed to the brink. 

Iran’s disruption of the Strait of Hormuz shows just how key it is to global energy markets, supply chains, and food systems, putting millions at risk.

So what happens when the U.S. no longer has a monopoly on economic coercion?
Has Trump overplayed his hand?

Are we witnessing the limits of American power and the beginning of a more chaotic global order?

To break it all down, Rania Khalek is joined by Marxist economist Prabhat Patnaik, professor emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University and co-author of Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present.