The one common thread tying Trump’s theatrical bravados points in one direction – China.
His moves on Venezuela and Iran are squarely aimed at choke holding China’s oil supply. Beijing buys over 80% of Venezuela’s oil exports and 90% of Iran’s.
If the US and Israel subdue Iran in a military conquest, the impact on the Gulf region will be profound. The Gulf sheiks will be completely under the thumbs of the US and Zionist interests.
And China buys a lot of oil from the Gulf.
In addition to an oil blockade, the US is also using open-sea piracy to disrupt China’s global commerce.
To justify his plan to annex Greenland, Trump blatantly lies about Chinese influence in Greenland, saying “the place is full of Russian and Chinese ships”.
The lie is patently ridiculous.
China’s total trade with Greenland in 2024 was $383 million, about 0.006% of China’s total foreign trade.
China imports $377 million worth of Greenland fish and crustacean products. It exports $6 million worth of commodities, rubber and toys.
So what Chinese ships are all over Greenland?
The invocation of China and Russia in the context of Greenland has nothing to do with their presence on the ground or influence over the island.
It is about blocking any potential Arctic routes for Russia and China...
The odds are heavily in China’s favor in a conflict with the US and its vassals in Western Pacific.
Taiwan still supplies 80-90% of the most advanced chips globally from the TSMC fabs in Hsinchu. If Washington wants to stranglehold oil supply, Beijing can cut it off semiconductors.
Even if these fabs are destroyed, the loss to China is limited. After all, China has already been denied the most advanced TSMC chips by US coercion. It is making rapid progress to develop its own chip supply chains.
On the other hand, the impact on US tech industry will be enormous. Perhaps fatal.
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