US will hit Iran “very hard” if protesters are killed
Meanwhile, in the US, the protesters are being killed by their own government.
Seriously I wish I could turn hypocrisy into a usable power source.
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Be careful what you wish for, you will probably get quite a few nuclear explosions at that point.
Can't upload videos of protester killings without internet access, can ya!
Iran could be our next target. Trump wants to cut off oil supplies to China. China does import much of their oil from Russia and Saudi Arabia, in addition to Iran and Iraq (Chinese oil imports from Venezuela had been increasing recently), and I'm not sure how they expect to stop oil from flowing to China from Russia and Saudi Arabia, but what is clear is they view oil as power and they want to weaken China by targeting their oil supplies.
Edit: Could this all be to build up our oil reserves, and restrict China from building up their reserves, in preparation for an eventual war with China?
There's a theory that I've seen floating around the Internet for years now that the US could easily defeat China in a war by just cutting off their supply of oil. Maybe that's our plan.
From what I understand, Venezuela, Canada, and Russia are the primary suppliers of heavy crude. Even after so-called embargoes against Russia for the Ukraine-Russia conflict, ghost ships are still able to get product to market.
As for Iran, I'm not sure the US can even hold Iran, given their track record in Afghanistan and elsewhere. As it turns out, occupying another country requires huge troop deployments over decades.
Also, China's built out relations through the Belts and Roads Initiative, meaning they've diversified the markets they can access.
One alternative plan, from an outsider's point of view, is that the US has engaged in a long standing strategy of wealth transfer from its middle classes to its wealthy upper classes over decades. They're in the process of breaking down their country for sale to its billionaire classes. While on paper it looks like a coup, the structure of the US suggests that the whole thing comes down with a whimper instead of a bang.
I suspect the billionaires are just waiting to see if they can get away with stealing the US, without the American people rising up and charging them for treason.
Just because it's a bad strategy doesn't mean they won't try it. In trying to figure out this administration's next moves, using faulty logic might actually help. Kind of a, "if I were an idiot, what would I do," sort of thing.
If this were a terrible cake of mixed motives, one would be to throw out or damage the Epstein files in such a way that no one involved with those allegations can be tried.
Second, obtain war funding (Venezeula) to secure a coup, or to at least hold a significant portion of the the US indefinitely.
Third, in the event of complete failure, extort and move as much money out of the country that can resist tracing or recovery. Exit planning to leave the US on emergency basis.
I keep these three points in mind while looking at the Trump Administration.
Lmao Donny has no plan, of that I am sure. Just wants power and money, there's no overarching strategy besides impulsive reaction. His henchmen do, pretty confident of that, and are the dangerous combination of smart, patient, and evil.
Didn't the US just have 3 "protestors" killed just the other day?
Planting fake protestors that escalate the situation is part of the CIA handbook. I wanna bet his threat is a prelude to that.
You know that it's a good time to protest in Iran when they shut down the internet.