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  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    2 days ago

    Well, the small and quick summary is this. The rhythm of the war slowed down. However, Iran is still maintaining control of the Strait of Hormuz.

    (May 27th)The US did strike and Iran responded by attacking the US base in Kuwait.

    From my point of view, Brian Berletic’s take on the recent events make sense to me:

    I warned that the US objective is not necessarily toppling Iran immediately, and certainly not stopping “nuclear weapons” that don’t even exist - but to cut China and the rest of Asia off from not just Iranian oil, but all energy exports from the Middle East.

    To maintain the slow but sure strangulation of energy exports from the entire region, the US has triggered a war damaging energy production and export infrastructure across the whole region, then placed its own blockade on Iranian ports and any other shipping it decides to interdict, as well as carrying out sporadic attacks even while “negotiating” with Iran.

    The goal is to maintain this strangle hold, increase it when necessary, perform political circus when it needs to cool markets - all while creating the economic crisis it requires to isolate China and force Asian states under a greater degree of US energy dependence.

    Well, I did make it short to avoid making this harder to read or keep up. Hope you find it helpful.

    • vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      2 days ago

      That is very helpful I forgot Berletic existed when I was refiling all the dang YouTubes among other things recently, he is one of the more sober alt media people, talked to him a bit on TG and he seems… “Normal.” I would listen in even if I knew he was a fed, it would be the same process anyways.

      I wonder if that’s a realistic objective for the US. I’m more on the nit-and-grit side of the industry w chemistry n shit but based on raw numbers the countries the US intends to hurt the most are coasting by far better than US allies which are allowed minimal independent refinement capacity. I’m sure the US wouldn’t mind failing another sanction-war and settling for fucking over their allies they seem physically incapable of not doing that even after the agonizing process of Covid & Ukraine. Maybe from self-interested bougie standpoints this feels like even bigger #winning