I wrote seven days ago, apropos the fall of the Middle East’s last Ba’athist government, that as Palestinian resistance is weakened by the cutting off of arms flows to Hezbollah, so too is Iran – its desired fall the crown jewel of US regime-change plans for the Middle East – weakened:
In the Pentagon in November 2001, a senior military staff officer had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was to be part of a five-year plan against seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran.
Brigadier-General Wesley K. Clark speaking to Democracy Now, June 14, 2020
I wrote too that since half of China’s oil passes through the Hormuz Strait, a US puppet regime in Tehran would bring the world to the brink of WW3 …
… unless, that is, China had in the meantime become game-changingly less dependent on the black stuff. Given the commitment of successive US administrations to “contain” China … given US plans as revealed not just by General Wesley Clark but close to three decades of mayhem in the Middle East … given China’s Achilles Heel of having no oil of its own and, last but not least, the fact no one ever accused Beijing of stupidity – wouldn’t you expect the world’s economic superpower to be doing all it can to cut back on the hydrocarbs?
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