Crude oil refineries, terminals, and tankers cannot be defended, so by blocking the flow of crude oil and essential food imports through the straits and bombing the desalination plants, America’s oil-rich Persian Gulf allies can be devastated and hence their petrodollar funding, that supports the United States dollar, can become greatly diminished or completely stopped.
Professor Jiang and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, say Iran will win this war, not through military superiority, but by undermining America financially. America’s finances fund these wars.
Iran is currently waiting for its opponents to run out of their dwindling supply of land and sea-based interceptor missiles, to thereby gain an upper hand.
A French carrier is moving to the war zone, and a Chinese warship is already there.
This war will still be going on in a year’s time, and the oil price shock will likely lead to a global economic depression.
Somehow, troops, maybe Kurdish, will eventually be sent in: without the troops, one can’t secure the oil. Soon, everyone will want an electric car.
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