Ali_Baba
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You realize the SPR is just a government reserve right?
There is also commercial inventories which are 400 million plus barrels of oil and products. The U.S. isn’t close to “running out” of oil.
Meanwhile Iran let China ships pass for free and how did China and Xi the western appeaser respond to this friendship? By making a back room deal with Trump whose administration called Chinese people “savages”.
China single handily destroyed Iranian leverage and thwarted the Iranian oil playbook tactic by stabilizing the oil markets and prolonging this conflict by giving Trump more time and remove immediate pressure on him prior to mid terms.
If anyone thinks this was just a coincidence they are naive. Xi is coming to visit Trump in USA next month. What deal is Trump prepared to give Xi the Western Appeaser to continue to cut back on oil imports?
- China ramped down its oil purchases, to stabilise the markets which is in its interests.
- China provided discrete military assistance to Iran i.e. Beidou access for precision strikes(plus anything else of interest on those trains direct from China to Iran - enough for the Americans to bomb that line!), which is in its interests...
- China has allowed the Americans to defeat themselves for all the world to see, and for them to see how the USA treats its "allies" in war(not well it seems, ask the Gulfies), which is in its interests...
- And now China has started to buy oil on the open market, creating upward pressure on oil prices to force pressure on trump to finish this war, which is in its interests....
Maybe China did what it did, because it could see a bigger strategic picture that Iran could not see, that would have made things better for Iran in the long run ? We won't fully know, because no one on this forum are into geo-strategic game theory and we can't see everything that was/is in play.
The USA has been geo-strategically defeated in the middle east. At first all the Iranians officials were all frothing at the mouth against the Makkah agreement, and now they seem to have changed their tune, have they not? Why is that? Maybe the penny dropped in Tehran? Maybe someone explained things to Iran, that Iran in its own little bubble cannot see of visualise ??
Yes, China has been working on its own geo-strategic interests - all countries do, some of when overlap and compliment Iran's goals and objectives and some of those are solely for China's interests.
That is geo-politics unfortunately.
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