Honestly, pulling out air defenses from ME reminds me of Bernard Lewis' Balkanization of the middle east map (as published in the new york times) - as known as Oded Yinon's Greater Israel Plan
I can think of a 3rd option. China is the world's largest importer of oil. That oil predominantly comes from the ME. Without air defense more attacks on refineries becomes more viable.....
A third option for what? Why we would pull air defense out of the middle east? That doesn't explain why we would pull out at all. That's not an option, that's a consequence.
@@tylerlivingston82 Pull out air defense. Let Iran blow up refineries and transfer ports. Energy shortage in China. Pretty simple really. I mean this does imply that Joe's not the sort of guy who stays bought. But he doesn't come off as someone with any real principles so....
@@listener523 Yea but Iran blew up that refinery in Saudi Arabia because they are adversaries. They don't just go around blowing up random refineries. Which leads to the question, why the hell would Iran just randomly start bombing Chinese investments? That would just make both the worlds superpowers hate you. That doesn't make any strategic sense.
@@tylerlivingston82 Why did they blow it up in the first place? Because SA is a regional competitor. It's a SA asset not a Chinese asset. And China doesn't have any power projection in the region. Removing air defense makes this easier is all. Look this isn't even a new thing. Iran in the past has attacked their neighbors oil infrastructure. They've mined the transit routes. The US intervened. But that was when we were not energy independent and their biggest customer wasn't our geostrategic rival.
@@listener523 Oh I see what you're saying. After looking up the numbers China is indeed much more dependent on Saudi oil products than the US (never would have guessed...). But it still would hurt US oil imports, it would just hurt China more. Seems like a very attritional strategy, particularly in peace time you think they'd actually consider doing that? Seems a bit detrimental to me.
A chanel that offers real substantive insight on current events
Honestly, pulling out air defenses from ME reminds me of Bernard Lewis' Balkanization of the middle east map (as published in the new york times) - as known as Oded Yinon's Greater Israel Plan
this guy calling the Ukraine war 9 months in advance and the US pulling middle Eastern weapons to out into Europe
bravo
Not enough videos. Soon I would've watched all. Not good.
A “Chanel” that offers real substantive insight”… reads like you guys are cologne 😂
I can think of a 3rd option. China is the world's largest importer of oil. That oil predominantly comes from the ME. Without air defense more attacks on refineries becomes more viable.....
A third option for what? Why we would pull air defense out of the middle east? That doesn't explain why we would pull out at all. That's not an option, that's a consequence.
@@tylerlivingston82
Pull out air defense.
Let Iran blow up refineries and transfer ports.
Energy shortage in China.
Pretty simple really. I mean this does imply that Joe's not the sort of guy who stays bought. But he doesn't come off as someone with any real principles so....
@@listener523 Yea but Iran blew up that refinery in Saudi Arabia because they are adversaries. They don't just go around blowing up random refineries.
Which leads to the question, why the hell would Iran just randomly start bombing Chinese investments? That would just make both the worlds superpowers hate you. That doesn't make any strategic sense.
@@tylerlivingston82
Why did they blow it up in the first place? Because SA is a regional competitor. It's a SA asset not a Chinese asset. And China doesn't have any power projection in the region.
Removing air defense makes this easier is all. Look this isn't even a new thing. Iran in the past has attacked their neighbors oil infrastructure. They've mined the transit routes.
The US intervened. But that was when we were not energy independent and their biggest customer wasn't our geostrategic rival.
@@listener523 Oh I see what you're saying.
After looking up the numbers China is indeed much more dependent on Saudi oil products than the US (never would have guessed...). But it still would hurt US oil imports, it would just hurt China more. Seems like a very attritional strategy, particularly in peace time you think they'd actually consider doing that? Seems a bit detrimental to me.
Not what I want to listen to after Richard Spencer.