Israel Increases Pressure on Trump to Attack Iran. Juan Antonio Aguilar. Geopolitics
Analysis: Published on October 26, 2026, on Geopolitica Ariel Umpierrez, military and geopolitical analyst Juan Antonio Aguilar evaluates the strategic divergence between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic survival calculus and U.S. economic vulnerabilities ahead of the American midterm elections. Aguilar details recent Pentagon visits to Tel Aviv, the deployment of the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group, and Ansarallah strikes on regional energy infrastructure that have pushed crude futures above $113 per barrel. The analysis illustrates how a expanded regional conflict and Iranian asymmetric missile capabilities threaten to trigger cascading global energy and supply chain shortages across the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb.