Trump’s threats to the Strait of Hormuz will make America a pirate nation and risk conflict with China, making Beijing seem like the grown-ups, explains world affairs editor.
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Trump’s threats to the Strait of Hormuz will make America a pirate nation and risk conflict with China, making Beijing seem like the grown-ups, explains world affairs editor.
When does interdicting Iranian oil become restricting China’s energy supply?
USA has already blocked Venezuelan Russian oil shipments to China.
There are blockages globally - see video below.
This war is at least in part about asserting petrodollar hegemony over the global oil (and gas) markets so that USA can charge 10x the price for its LNG exports.
Chevron is apparently behind a lot of it.
The video makes the case for all three.
It is worth a watch if interested.
isn’t the same as evidence.
If there are primary sources showing:
• a mechanism for “10x LNG pricing”
• coordinated policy across these regions
• or corporate influence on a naval blockade
I’m open to them.
I’m not seeing that, just a narrative stitched together after the fact.
It is pretty clear that the actions in Venezuela and Iran are co-ordinated and do benefit the market demand for US LNG exports. One man- POTUS Trump has initiated these actions.
He is well known for and very vocal about his 'advocacy' for US oil and gas interests.
Similarly he has not ended to war in Ukraine but rather appears to have allowed it to continue...again significantly influencing global demand for US LNG exports.
The video shows Biden stating quite clearly that Nordstream would be shutdown
Chevron clearly lobbys and funds whoever gains presidency.
The benefit this delivers to Chevron is also self evident.
On the claim of 10x price I did not see any source given in the video but it seems plausible given the current global energy crisis that has resulted from these 3 energy markets being partially or fully obstructed due to US government actions and inactions.
It would be interesting to know the price now being achieved for US LNG shipped globally compared to prior to these three major areas of obstruction to the global market all of which US has been instrumental in, with Chevron funding the president all the way.
Prior to Ukraine and taking out Nordstream was it even viable to ship US LNG globally?
You’re jumping between a few very different claims here:
What is the evidence for each step?
Also, if the 10x claim had no source, why is it carrying so much weight in the argument?
And how does “Trump likes US oil and gas” become proof of a coordinated multi-theater energy strategy?
The 'evidence' you request is in the actions taken and who they benefit.
Not sure the 10x claim is carrying so much weight- rather that you are asserting things that I have not asserted.
Do either of us know and have evidence for the exact degree of increase for US/Chevron CNG since these military actions by the US government? No- that data is probably held by Chevron as 'commercially sensitive'.
The point is all these blockades do directly and logically significantly increase demand for US gas and Chevron does benefit from that.
If you seriously doubt that Big Oil corporates have a significant influence on US government policy and military actions over the last 70 odd years then lets agree to disagree...starting with the removal of the democratically elected Mossadagh government of Iran in 1953!
The petrodollar is perhaps the most significant US strategic economic asset and is based upon military power projection. There is plenty of evidence for this and this war provides more every day!
No, it doesn't. Stop being an idiot. There is a reason we are seeing tankers, including super tankers, headed to the US now. China can't burn itself because, like your graph, you love to spam shows, they need fossil fuels to continue the growth. If they shut those down and flip to renewables, they undergo severe economic turmoil.
panicking is clickbait
What graph???
No graph I have ever shown asserts China is increasing dependency on fossil fuels- quite the opposite.
Maybe learn how to read graphs?
China leads the world in adoption of renewables and manufacture of renewable energy systems.
When I read "threatens piracy", I thought it was a threat to The Pirate Bay or Anna's Archive.
Every ship should just pay the tarrifs with btc at the Strait of Hormuz and let the international trade go on smoothly
What "risk"? War with the communist bandits is inevitable.
Who thinks Beijing is in the right? A bunch of champagne socialists who get their money from welfare fraud? USA, Taiwan, and Japan's pro-communist politicians all lost their elections. The time of arguments and optics is over. And whatever political capital the left thinks it gained from a controversial Trump post is not the gotcha they think it is. No one cares what the EU thinks.
You are running out of interceptors and cannot make anymore because China has stopped supply of rare earths to the US military.
Desperate times.
Few would think in such black and white cartoon like terms as to characterize China as good and USA as evil but many globally new see the contemporary USA as erratic and complicit with Zionist war crimes and militarist bullying hegemony while China appears in comparison more stable, sane, constructive, non threatening and peaceful.
China is consulting widely, with Spain, France, Pakistan, Iran, Saudis and others- most of the gulf state rely upon China as their main customer for oil and gas.
Nobody has volunteered to join Trumps blockage.
USA is now seen as a pirate rogue state led by an erratic and narcissistic tyrant owned by Zionist zealot war mongering criminals.
"Appears" is the operative word here. 中共國 is not peaceful. The communists are constantly threatening to meddle in the ROC's internal affairs.
Cuba, Venezuela, Iran.
Yeah they were all agressors.
If aliens, a neutral third party, began observing Earth in the mid 2000's, they'd see two paths forward for the planet. On one side there's your friends: Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, the mainland. And on the other side is a proper civilization who's only flaws are caused by you moochers and infiltrators. Who's side do you think they would take?
This is why Satoshi's white paper was published in English.
Are you not embarrased by the fact that all the countries friendly with you SUCK? You have a better life in New Zealand than you would in Iran because it's pretty much illegal for you to have an opinion there, and if you cut ties with the US you'd be as much of a shithole as Cuba. What are you fighting for? Your command economy doesn't work for anyone but the lowest kind of person who can't compete in a game of voluntary exchange and has to rely on violence and deception.
I am all for free trade.
USA refuses NZ a FTA because we banned your nuclear ships from our harbours.
China gave us a FTA in early 2000s and is now our biggest trade partner.
China pays the best price for our primary produce and sells us the manufactured goods we need at the best price.
Yes I would not be comfortable living in China, but tbh USA under Trump looks like a dystopian mess- authorities here have warned NZers against travel to the US with the new rules requiring US immigration to access personal devices and social media posts and capable of cancelling visas with no right of appeal. USA is increasingly hostile to free trade and free speech. Own it.
Nahhh we're hostile to crypto-communists trying to take advantage of freedoms that they don't actually give a shit about and weaponize against us to make money.
New Zealand can do the work of reconstructing the mainland when this is over. Enjoy trading with a radioactive crater.
No, USA seems increasingly the land of cronyism, bullying and war criminal tyrants.
I still love the mythology the US was built upon of liberty and the pioneering freedom seeking - Daniel Boone - Henry D Thoreau flavour, much like NZ us Anglo colonies were places where people came looking for a chance at a better life and away from the old entrenched class systems, inequality and endless wars of Europe- but sadly this is no longer the case in the real world.
USA has become a militarist, imperialist, bigoted, petrodollar hegemony, sponsoring Zionist 'Greater Israel Project' seeking genocide and global economic terrorism.
And Iran's been saying this, but did anyone come to their defense? Has anyone tried to rescue Maduro? No. The PRC and EU expressed some negative opinions on it, and that was all. If we're a pirate rogue state then do something.
No one actually respects or likes Iran because their government is trash and they treat their people like slaves. You know it. The PRC knows it. Everyone knows it. So however much anyone complains about the US, no one would genuinely prefer to live under Iran's legal system except the most insane totalitarian radicals.