Everything we see unfolding before us...

Editor's note: ...including this "war" on Iran has been scripted out well in advance. Peter Schwartz built his career on helping powerful institutions think the unthinkable, most notably at Royal Dutch Shell (Shell's 2025 revenue sits in the $260–$270 billion range), one of the largest oil companies in the world, where he refined scenario planning into a strategic weapon (the US military uses Schwartz's same scenario-based planning) that allowed executives to anticipate oil shocks, geopolitical upheaval, and market disruptions before they unfolded. Though Schwartz's original Global Business Network (GBN) is now defunct, its influence lives on through the consulting firms, corporations, institutions, and power networks that absorbed and continue to apply its scenario-planning methods. That same long-view methodology now echoes across governments, tech giants, and financial institutions, as today's overlapping crises, energy instability, AI acceleration, and global political fragmentation, mirror the very kinds of systemic shifts Schwartz trained elites to game out decades in advance. What was once a niche forecasting tool has become a quiet operating system for power, shaping how decisions are made long before their consequences reach the public.

U.S.-Iran War - Made In GBN

And then we come to oil:

Oil at 150 USD barrel in some places; 'Physical oil prices hit record highs near $150 a barrel as Hormuz crisis worsens'; LONDON, April 7 - European and Asian refiners are paying record high prices of...