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Not yet in focus for this packet, but part of the next packet's mechanism for Iran controlling GCC survival.
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Not yet in focus for this packet, but part of the next packet's mechanism for Iran controlling GCC survival. Chokepoint Jiang says the GCC needs to export oil and import food; Iranian control would let Iran tax Gulf flows.
The trade-access chokepoint Jiang treats as Saudi Arabia’s possible post-oil revenue base and Iran’s strategic lever.
ASR renders it as 'Chateau de Formousse'; Jiang uses it as the narrow global pivot through which Gulf oil and strategic leverage flow.
A strategic shipping lane Jiang says makes IRGC naval control especially important and profitable.
He argues economic strangulation of Iran would focus on oil exports, Kharg Island, control of the Strait of Hormuz, and expanding the battlefield to ethnic minority regions.
Iran does not need only the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt the global economy; it can also attack vulnerable GCC energy infrastructure and pipelines.
The speaker claims Trump threatened that if Iran refused to open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday, the United States would attack Iranian power plants, bridges, and universities.
The speaker predicts America may create or use a chokepoint over the Strait of Hormuz even though Iran currently controls it.
A ground invasion of Iran is presented as militarily stupid because Iranian mountains, deserts, distance from Tehran, and potential mines around Hormuz favor guerrilla and defensive warfare.
Iran's strategy is to attack the global economy, the weak point in the American edifice, because it cannot directly attack the empire, U.S. culture, or U.S.-controlled international institutions.
Iran’s early escalation moves are attacks on U.S. radar and air-defense systems plus closing the Strait of Hormuz to pressure GCC states and East Asia.
Closing Hormuz gives Iran calibration because it can selectively let Chinese ships, bribing GCC states, or states defecting from the U.S. pass through.
"weapon in this war are no longer my planes and my aircraft carriers my best weapon is the Iranian people themselves that's what a..."
"moves and they collect tolls on that okay so i basically need to destroy Iran's control of the cervical moves the way i do..."
"is forced to deal with multiple threats at the same time i'm going to collapse their economy all right okay so this is what..."
"...West, are much more cohesive, okay? All right, can the Strait of Hormuz be avoided by laying gaps pipe through Oman? No, no, that's..."
"...all right? So again, understand, the point is not the Strait of Hormuz. The point is the vulnerability and the fragility of the global..."
"...on Tuesday, if the Iranians still refuse to open the Strait of Hormuz, then the Americans will destroy the Iranian power plants and bridges..."
"...expect America to basically create a choke point over the Strait of Hormuz, right? So right now, the issue is that the Iranians control..."
"saying is we will enforce the Monroe Doctrine in North America so it sounds very strange to people in that Donald Trump is fighting..."
"have these mountains the Zagos mountains which allows for the Iranians to hide and conduct guerrilla warfare and use drone strikes and artillery strikes..."
"...the same time, the Americans need to free up the Strait of Hormuz and allow for maritime navigation in order to stabilize the global..."
"this system now when you renegotiate this system especially the empire is not so tough right and this but this also shows us why..."
"attack the education media cultural system of america because it's too embedded i i can't attack the un and wto they've all been controlled..."
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