As reports suggest, US President Donald Trump now wants Arab states to share the financial burden of the US-Israel war against Iran. What this framing ignores is a simpler truth: the world is already paying for a conflict he initiated in concert with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and the bill has been mounting by the day.

In India, queues for LPG cylinders are lengthening, with black-market prices reportedly tripling or even quadrupling. Fuel-linked inflation looms, threatening to ripple through transport, food, and household budgets. In Australia, at least two provinces have withdrawn free public transport as fuel costs surge.

Even in the United States, the average gasoline price has crossed $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022. From Indonesia to Kuwait, lives........

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