The speaker's model is that American power is shifting from reserve-currency extraction and global trade protection toward control of sea lanes and coercive naval blockades.
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Naval Blockade
The speaker's model is that American power is shifting from reserve-currency extraction and global trade protection toward control of sea lanes and coercive naval blockades.
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"...option, now your strategy is to blockade them, right? Create a naval blockade, start them off resources, which forces them to come beg to..."
"global trade to America basically being a mafia state, being pirates, and allowing you to use sea lanes and giving you trade access. Okay,..."
"what Trump's going to do is he's going to impose a naval blockade on Iran's naval blockade, right? And so the question then is,..."
"...on the Circassian border. global trade, where a counter to America's naval blockade is by creating a Eurasian trade block that involves Iran, Russia,..."
"...conflict where it's a war of attrition, right? So it's a naval blockade. You have some ground forces deployment and you have some continual..."
"...conflict where it's a war of attrition. Right. So it's a naval blockade. You have some ground forces deployment and you have some air..."
"...iran as a pre -taught pretext in order to impose a naval blockade on the entire world and so um i'll make two i'll..."
"...oceans so originally trump said that they want to impose a naval blockade on the on iranians uh but you can't do that because..."
"...to control the Sharia Homs, even though Trump has imposed a naval blockade. That naval blockade is very porous. It's very leaky. There's reporting..."
"Yeah, I completely agree. So a naval blockade is considered an act of war. And so it... It breaks the spirit of a ceasefire...."
"...approach will be to try to economically strangle Iran. So the naval blockade will be part of that. But the Americans will also try..."
"...what's happening right now is that the Americans are imposing a naval blockade on all on all ocean trade. Right. So we're seeing. As..."
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