Marco Rubio has called on China to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important shipping routes.
His comments came after Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that parliament had approved a plan to close the Strait but added that the final decision lies with the Supreme National Security Council.
Any disruption to the supply of oil would have profound consequences for the economy. China in particular is the world’s largest buyer of Iranian oil and has a close relationship with Tehran.
China: have you tried not bombing them?
America: I can’t believe you would say something so fucking stupid.
America: … (pretending to make static sounds, muffling their voice like it’s a bad connection)… WHAT’S THAT??! … we’ve got a bad connection … did you say … BOMB THEM MORE? … (keeps pretending to make static sounds)
America: Come on, you’re pulling that one out of nowhere. That can’t be the reason, we bomb people all the time!
US probably shouldn’t fuck with people who got the leverage on the economy, but alas, common sense isn’t always available when conservative is ruling.
They’ll just use it as an excuse to bomb Iran some more
common sense isn’t always available when conservative is ruling.
It wasn’t when liberals were ruling either (see: Gulf of Aden). This is an imperialism thing, not a conservative thing (though conservatives are worse about it).
Everyone knew Iran would shut the straight, this is all just subterfuge for loosening restrictions on Russian oil purchases because “we have no other options”.
Idk something tells me China would happily buy Russian oil sanction or not. Especially if their main source is disrupted.
maybe stopping the oil addiction was not only for the environment, but a matter of national defense.
I think there were intelligence officials that echoed this same sentiment years ago.
There’s no reason for this oil dependency,
Right wing nationalists push for energy independence Environmentalists push for not destroying the place we live Healt advocates push for better air quality …
but Oil shareholders like money so fuck everyone else.
China:
The Chinese government sitting around the phone with the US on hold …“how long should we make them wait?”
“Give them another hour, it’s already been two” (another round of belly busting laugher)
In the meantime, China is going all in on EVs thus reducing their dependence on oil…. Gee, wonder what leverage that gives them.
China imports 1.3 to 1.8 million barrels of oil per day from Iran, roughly 16% of its total. It’s not just oil either, China is a heavy importer of other Iranian petrochemicals.
China’s EVs give them very little leverage at this point.
Waaaa crybabies!
I’m confused… China is dependent on oil imports flowing through the strait of Hormuz. Much more so than the US is. In fact the US maintains a naval presence in the region specifically so they’d have the capability to block that strait and starve China of oil. China produces very little oil of their own, though they have coal up the wazoo. Blocking that strait is the US’s main card to play if China invade Taiwan.
Right, so how can the US close it if Iran closes it first? We need China to keep it open, so that then the US can close it to hurt China.
Tune in next week for part 2 of the US-Iran war: “And Find Out.”
Setting arrangements of that sort in place ahead of time would be called diplomacy.
america helped israel so now China has to help america. Donald Trump better say Thank you.
