Posted on 03/20/2026 5:53:40 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
It’s become practically normalized these days that ignorant influencers and populist politicians abroad will regularly proclaim that Israel dragged America into the war with Iran; that the Islamic Republic didn’t pose any “imminent threat” to the US; that the war is illegal.
These armchair analysts claim that US President Donald Trump has no idea what he’s doing – it’s all to cement his reputation as an international bully – and that the war will bring nothing but higher gas prices and soaring inflation to the US, all to support another country, Israel, which is pulling the strings.
What these pundits fail to realize is that there are actually two chessboards in play. It’s easy to see just the smaller one – the one where Israel had been threatening to go after Iran’s missiles and launchers – and conclude that the US had no choice but to join the fight, since US assets in the region were going to get hit, anyway.
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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
As was Venezuela.
The Iran war is not about China, it's about 47 years of attacks on US personnel and the world's chief sponsor of terrorism seeking to build and use nuclear weapons.
Iranian oil -> China
Chinese weapons & consumer goods -> Iran
China is going to get the oil its economy needs.
Iran was told no nuclear by Trump about 75 times. Hopefully, bombs will make Trump’s demand crystal clear.
It’s about the operation to destroy BRICS and protect the petrodollar. If you want to see a world of hurt, just watch what happens to our prices here and our economy if we are no longer the world’s currency for the oil trade.
Yet all people seem to think about is that this is about Israel and nukes.
- He forced the Panamanians to take back control of the Panama Canal from Chinese companies.
- he ensured China would never get a toehold in Greenland.
He decapitated the regime in Venezuela AND got them to start sending their oil to America rather than China again. Not only was China getting that oil, it was getting that oil for way below market rates.
*IF* this succeeds and the regime in Iran really does fall....Yes, China loses yet another important proxy but once again China is getting oil at way below market rates from Iran. If that goes away it BOTH weakens China strategically since it needs oil so badly and economically since it would increase energy costs for them.
and while everybody is focused on that, Trump is eyeing up Cuba next. That would push China clear out of the Western Hemisphere.
If Iran falls, when Trump meets Chi at their next meeting, he will have a lot of leverage. They currently have leverage over us with rare earths but we could counter with control over the oil they so badly need. Meanwhile we are working on becoming less dependent on China for rare earths.
Three paragraphs in and he hasn’t mentioned China, ostensibly the topic of the article, just what other people supposedly think.
It is also about Ukraine and selling drones to the Russians
communist china’s expansionism is being cut back, one tentacle at a time
PDJT has cut off their Venezuelan oil supply
PDJT is right now cutting off their Iranian oil supply (while stemming the flow of CCP weapons into Iran too)..as soon USA will control both Kharg Island (the main oil export terminal for Iran) and the Straght of Hormuz. No more CCP oil and no more CCP weapons for Iran, soon. Two birds with but a single stone.
there’s more like the trans-Asia silk road project and the trans-South America project and the trans-Africa project...all of CCP’s big time tentacles seeking control over world resources...are encountering troubles ....
Communist China... is the elephant hiding under the rug in much of what’s going on.
Yep its not just Iran. Its a 3 part operation. Venezuela, Iran and Cuba. End goal diminish China’s supply of energy and win the race to AI supremacy.
💯% correct, in my opinion!
The next front in the war against communist China, may well be PRC (Politically Repressive Canaduh). Crime Minister skidMark Carney of Canaduh, is a WEF kingpin. He is also, if not a ChiCom agent in Canaduh, his is VERY beholden to the communist Chinese. In November 2024, he negotiated a $276 million USD loan from the Bank of China, bailing out Brookfield Asset Management (BAM on NYSE), on speculative investments in Shanghai properties, which crashed.
Only after skidMark’s fellow socialist globalists, Two-tier Keir Starmer and Mini Macaroon, finally caved to PDJT’s pressure to join the ‘Party in the Strait’ (of Hormuz), did skidMark finally agree. As the RCN is so absolutely threader, due to decades of Lieberal malfeasance, Canaduh’s contribution will be to supply Tim Horton’s (aka Singh Horton’s) coffee and doughnuts for the ‘party’!
Last year, just after PDJT called Justin(e) Castreau ‘governor’, Brian Lilley, a relatively conservative commentator for the ‘Toronto Sun’, interviewed Steve Bannon, on what PDJT wants. PDJT has an expanded view of the ‘Monroe Doctrine’, to encompass both Americas, including Greenland, as a defence against China and Russia. He sees a world split between American influence and China/Russia influence, especially Chinese influence.
As China got a massive majority of its oil on the cheap, from Venezuela and Iran illegally, he cut off both. Now, all that is needed, is to control Canadian oil. You can bet your sweet bippy, that skidMark Carney’s ‘controller’, Xi Jinping, has told him, ‘GET ME THE OIL!”
In this country, what freedoms that remain, will soon be gone, under bills C-9, C-22, C-63, C-206, and several others. In fact, under C-9, the Bible can be declared ‘hate speech’! Dear PDJT, it seems about time that skidMark Carney be ‘Maduro’ed! This may well be a reason why skidMark is never in Canaduh!
Market forces place more impact on oil volatility toward Western markets and redoubts.
China's use of coal and electricity has helped dramatically on this oil nexus.
Hormuz oil = only 6.6% of China's total energy consumption.
SPR: 1.2-1.4B barrels = about 6 months of buffer.
EV penetration: >50% of new car sales.
Grid oil/gas dependency: 4%.
If Trump succeeds taking the Kharg island, which represents 90% of Iran’s exports, then it’s over for China. It will bring a COMPLETE new world order, MASSIVELY in America’s favor.
Trump is putting America back on the world stage as an absolute number one super power - for at least two more decades, if not more.
Bravo.
Agree. I believe so many of the things we’re doing is because of China.
Is China also flying in thousands of 'migrants' now the border lie has been exposed and the border closed? Are they still men of military age and can we assume democrats are 'helping' them?
Hey, why not both China and Iran? Throw in Venezuela too, and add Cuba for good measure. 4D chess and all of that. Oh, and the midterms, and the 2028 Presidential election. Why not?
It’s global in nature - the whole world will benefit and China and Russia will have had their dreams of expanding hegemony “disrupted”.
Yup!
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