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Alleged Iranian drone struck Azerbaijani airport … this makes no sense to drag in more countries into this war.
Zerohedge had the same article this morning. Looks like China has a "cheap oil" problem". Good for them.China is Scrambling
The men in Zhongnanhai do not rattle easily. Decades of patient statecraft, a foreign policy built on studied ambiguity, and an economy engineered to absorb external shocks have granted Beijing’s leadership a remarkable tolerance for turbulence. Operation Epic Fury, the American-Israeli air campaign now dismantling Iran’s military architecture, has produced something unusual in the corridors of Chinese power: visible confusion.
Third, the energy math turns against Beijing. China bought 1.38 million barrels per day of Iranian oil last year and takes over 80% of everything Iran ships. Half of China’s total oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz. With Ayatollah Khamenei now dead and Iran’s military leadership weakened, the Gulf’s strategic balance shifts decisively toward Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose energy ties with the United States are strengthening. China’s old selling point was very simple and transactional: we buy your oil and never mention human rights. That pitch loses its utility when Gulf producers already feel protected by an American security guarantee that just proved, on live television, that it works.
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A good read for some of you folks. Trump going into Iran militarily has set China back on its heels .
It looks like Iran is lashing out at all it's neighbors? Maybe the plan is to set the middle east on fire before they are wiped out? I have to say that Trumps actions in Venezuela may protect us from an oil shock if the middle east does go up in flames.Attack on Azerbaijan sounds like a classic false flag.
After the collapse of Soviet Union there was a vacuum. And it has been abused by the likes of fucking Gulenists and Wahhabi cults.Attack on Azerbaijan sounds like a classic false flag.
Attack on Azerbaijan sounds like a classic false flag.
It looks like Iran is lashing out at all it's neighbors? Maybe the plan is to set the middle east on fire before they are wiped out? I have to say that Trumps actions in Venezuela may protect us from an oil shock if the middle east does go up in flames.
Aye.I can't help but wonder if that wasn't the plan to secure Venezuela before Hormuz got closed.
It actually makes a lot of sense if you are looking at all these events as being connected theaters of a slow burn ww3.
Iran shot a ballistic missile at turkey too (that the US chose to shoot down).
If we were trying to make Iran look bad and drag others into this mess on our side it would have been super convenient to NOT intercept it and just let it do its thing.
We could have done nothing and let another ally join against Iran but we didn't.
So why would we false flag attack Azerbaijan to get them into this conflict against Iran?
After the collapse of Soviet Union there was a vacuum. And it has been abused by the likes of fucking Gulenists and Wahhabi cults.
Influence of Turkey, Russian and Saudi islamists have been enormous and reached to concerning levels.
Iran is the public enemy number one and there has been a very bad media coverage of the ashura and shias. Image of the non-existent Shia has been significantly damaged. Most people look shias as backwards stupid spies for Iran.
While the sunnis are borderline extremists and radicals in their beliefs.
The current situation is seriously concerning.
How much rent do you pay to live in your fantasy world where the US is corrupt to its core but Russia is this pure virgin of a country that has never done any harm but is only a victim?After collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S. and British spy agencies were heavily involved with Turkey and the Saudis in radicalizing Muslim population of post-Soviet Russia. It failed in Tatarstan, succeeded in Chechnya and almost succeeded in Dagestan. Weapons were smuggled to Dagestan through Georgia. Yeltsin complained about it to Clinton but didn't have the balls to confront him. Many of the Chechen terrorists escaped and ended up in Britain. During the Russia/ Chechen wars, U.S. sided with the Chechen Islamic militants 100%. Before and after 9/11. Bush even issued a warning to Russia to stand down, after the most horrific terrorist attack on a school in Beslan that killed over 300 people, mostly children. WTF?
How much rent do you pay to live in your fantasy world where the US is corrupt to its core but Russia is this pure virgin of a country that has never done any harm but is only a victim?
Once again if it wasn't an absolutely ridiculous notion I would think you are a Russian disinformation agent.
Russians for the most part admit what they done wrong and it is in reality by far less than U.S. This is why the West had to spend billions on propaganda to create false narratives.
This is so absurd it doesn't even deserve a response.
So +1 post for me!
Ok I'll bite. What have they done wrong? Just limit it to post 1917 actions.Russians for the most part admit what they done wrong in the past and in reality it is by far less than U.S. This is why the West had to spend billions on propaganda to create false narratives.
Americans are indoctrinated from the childhood that U.S. is a gift to humanity and has a leading role in controlling the world it doesn't even need to understand.
Ok I'll bite. What have they done wrong? Just limit it to post 1917 actions.
I'm not interested in the opinion of different Russian political factions. What do you think the Russians have done wrong?Different Russian political factions would point to different policies, while in the U.S. the wrongs are defined by deviation from what Founding Fathers intended and this intent should be aspiration guide for the entire world and all cultures, which is actually a fundamentalist belief.
Well there's really only two kinds of Countries over there: those that are for Iran and their stance/rhetoric against the US and Israel and those diametrically opposed to them... You either with us or against us.It looks like Iran is lashing out at all it's neighbors? Maybe the plan is to set the middle east on fire before they are wiped out? I have to say that Trumps actions in Venezuela may protect us from an oil shock if the middle east does go up in flames.
I'm not interested in the opinion of different Russian political factions. What do you think the Russians have done wrong?