The Iran War Was Supposed to Cripple China. It Backfired Spectacularly. | Silk and Steel
In this episode of Silk and Steel, Ahmad sits down with Carl Zha (geopolitical analyst and host of the Silk and Steel Podcast) to dissect the Iran war, US strategy to choke off China's energy, and why the empire looks increasingly like a paper tiger.
The big picture:
• The US has had a 30-year plan to control global oil flows and corner China (going back to the 2003 Iraq war)
• But having a plan and executing it competently are two very different things
• China has 1.4 billion barrels in strategic oil reserves – larger than the US, Europe, and Japan combined
• While the US Navy struggles to…
The skinny
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