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Phead128

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The US has won this battle against Iran. Now they are assassinating leaders without any restraint, and nothing truly harmful happens to them. Any new Iranian leader will simply be killed until a subservient vassal is appointed. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Neutralized and reduced to controlled chaos quickly, just like Libya, Syria, and Venezuela.

In the coming months, it's easy to predict that the focus will shift to Russia. Zelensky already tried to kill Putin a few months ago and suffered no consequences. It's a fact that Putin is losing respect internally. He's acting like Khamenei. Ukraine already eliminated several Russian generals and attacked Russian factories and refineries, and Putin responds only with predictable missiles against useless power plants that affect only poor people that nobody cares about and eliminate only low ranking Ukrainian soldiers and militaries. Just like Iran against the provocations of the US and Israel in the last decade. The entire Western and Ukrainian command is intact and richer than ever. If Putin is killed, it's likely that the corrupt Russian military won't risk a Third World War or use nuclear weapons and will simply surrender.

And this is where the real interest of this American move lies: to isolate China and threaten to eliminate all leaders of countries that might ally with the Chinese, while China is not yet strong enough to intervene globally.

The Epstein empire is capable of raping, killing, and eating children without punishment. Diplomacy, containment, and negotiations with them are merely a stage to ridicule anyone who still tries to do so.
What is the goal? If it's regime change, without boots on ground land conquest, I don't think a few airstrikes or missile salvos can change the regime of 90 million to be pro-West. If anything, Iran will sprint to nuclear capabilities and be fervently anti-Western, potentially dragging US deeper in Middle East, requiring boots on the ground.

There is no strategy involved, the whole trying to hurt China is also a cope, because getting bogged down in another Middle East conflict helps China, and weakens US financially and military.

In other words, how does US starting a multi-front war in Latin America, Middle East, Eastern Europe, hurt China? That's like end of empire type flailing and desperateness.
 

xypher

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What is the goal? If it's regime change, without boots on ground land conquest, I don't think a few airstrikes or missile salvos can change the regime of 90 million to be pro-West. If anything, Iran will sprint to nuclear capabilities and be fervently anti-Western, potentially dragging US deeper in Middle East, requiring boots on the ground.

There is no strategy involved, the whole trying to hurt China is also a cope, because getting bogged down in another Middle East conflict helps China, and weakens US financially and military.

In other words, how does US starting a multi-front war in Latin America, Middle East, Eastern Europe, hurt China? That's like end of empire type flailing and desperateness.
No-no, it is a masterstroke by stable genius Trump - Xi is already calling him to beg for the bigliest trade deal ever and promises to buy the most beautiful American soybeans after this show of power. Jai MAGA!

Prepare to see this take by the Western "freethinkers" after it gets pushed by MSM.
 

Eventine

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It’s true that China will be dealing with unreasonable oil price spikes pretty soon if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. That could be why the Chinese leadership reached out to Iran around keeping it open.

While Iran may or may not comply, I would encourage China to practice dealing with oil supply shocks like these because the US is surely watching how China responds to an oil embargo, and planning to use it as future leverage.
 

manqiangrexue

Brigadier
It’s true that China will be dealing with unreasonable oil price spikes pretty soon if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. That could be why the Chinese leadership reached out to Iran around keeping it open.

While Iran may or may not comply, I would encourage China to practice dealing with oil supply shocks like these because the US is surely watching how China responds to an oil embargo, and planning to use it as future leverage.
Just increase purchases from Russia. Keep Hormuz closed. The Euros need the pain.
 

Serb

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It’s true that China will be dealing with unreasonable oil price spikes pretty soon if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.

No, the market is universal; everyone would.

That could be why the Chinese leadership reached out to Iran around keeping it open.

While Iran may or may not comply, I would encourage China to practice dealing with oil supply shocks like these because the US is surely watching how China responds to an oil embargo.

But why don't you give your advice to the US?


Current Reserve Levels (Approximate)

MetricUnited StatesChina
Total Crude in Storage415.4 Million Barrels~1.2 to 1.5 Billion Barrels (Est.)
Storage Capacity~714 Million Barrels>1.5 Billion Barrels (Expanding)
Strategic StanceRebuilding after 2022 releasesAggressive stockpiling for security



Keep in mind this, you might see the record high oil domestic production in the US, but you don't realise the first principle of American private ownership and rights.

Especially if you are a giga-corporation like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips.

Whereas in China, nearly all production is managed by three massive state-owned enterprises: Sinopec, CNPC, and CNOOC, for example.
 

iewgnem

Captain
Registered Member
It’s true that China will be dealing with unreasonable oil price spikes pretty soon if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. That could be why the Chinese leadership reached out to Iran around keeping it open.

While Iran may or may not comply, I would encourage China to practice dealing with oil supply shocks like these because the US is surely watching how China responds to an oil embargo, and planning to use it as future leverage.
China isn't a small oil producer itself, once ME is removed from the equation China+Russia is only 15% less production than US+Canada, then you consider Russia is exclusive to China while Canada isn't exclusive to US, and that China is at 50% EV sales right now, while there will be a reduction in energy supply, China is actually the best positioned among all countries, US included, to deal with a cut to ME oil.

Besides China cut a deal with the Houthis, it's not unthinkable for China to cut a deal with Iran to let China-bound tankers through, in exchange for increased covert military support, Iran wins, China wins, Arab countries win, the west loses.
 

FairAndUnbiased

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It’s true that China will be dealing with unreasonable oil price spikes pretty soon if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. That could be why the Chinese leadership reached out to Iran around keeping it open.

While Iran may or may not comply, I would encourage China to practice dealing with oil supply shocks like these because the US is surely watching how China responds to an oil embargo, and planning to use it as future leverage.
China can outbid anyone for oil with either massive FOREX reserves, yuan, or barter.
 

A potato

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It's funny how the KMT claimed the CCP destroyed Chinese Culture when in reality the KMT did far more damage to Chinese culture than the CCP ever could because they tried to completly replace Chinese culture with a western one. This the text image I shown is aobut Jiang Jieshi's wife basically being Liu. Republican China is nothing but a disgrace and I hope everything about it (Including the Qipao) would just disappear in China.
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Turns out it wasn't the Qing Dynasty that killed the hanfu (Yes they did require men to wear Manchu clothing but Taoist and buddhist monks aswell as nobles were exempt) but the ROC of all dynasties. Is this the "Preservation of Chinese Culture" I was told about. More proof of how the KMT did more damage to Chinese culture than the cultural revolution.
 

Phead128

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It’s true that China will be dealing with unreasonable oil price spikes pretty soon if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. That could be why the Chinese leadership reached out to Iran around keeping it open.

While Iran may or may not comply, I would encourage China to practice dealing with oil supply shocks like these because the US is surely watching how China responds to an oil embargo, and planning to use it as future leverage.
The global economy runs on oil, and US is a participant in the global economy. So where is US economy getting hit by oil shock in your analysis? If only a few million dollar cruise missile in Hormuz can cripple China geopolitically, US would have launched this war decades ago. It's never so simple.
 

Almond98

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Poland could get nuclear weapons, house allied nukes. Actually, that's pretty good for the European security.
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I dont see any difference in getting nuclear weapon. And im not sure how it benefits them. Russian are not going to attack them or dont have any interest in attacking them. If a nuclear war starts they are going to get wiped whether they have nuke or not.
 
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