Curley: The Iran war isn’t about oil, nukes, or Epstein — it’s about China

Iran is China’s convenience store, which we’ll refer to from now on as the 7-Eleven.

What do you get there? Well, of course, you get oil. You get all your oil, if you’re China, from that particular 7-Eleven, plus you’re also able to buy and sell other things.

What’s also there? Supersonic anti-ship missiles are also available at this 7-Eleven. China put them there, by the way, and China likes to have them there because they want all of Iran’s friends, other fellow terrorists, to be able to use those missiles.

Now let’s talk about the oil for a second. So China gets about 80% of its oil at this particular 7-Eleven, and it loves it because it’s cheap, and also, what it does is it uses ghost ships. Ghost ships mean it turns off its transponder, and it comes sailing through any one of the straits that it can, and it doesn’t have to deal with a whole bunch of other problems, like taxing and things like that.

So it’s moving a whole bunch of oil that it gets from its 7-Eleven, and it secretly takes it back to China. It basically controls about 90 million people. That’s the total population that works there at that 7-Eleven.

China and Iran’s growing partnership

In 2016, China went to its 7-Eleven — Iran — and they met together, and they said, “Listen, we’d like to work together. OK? We want to have our economies working together.”

So in 2021, China said to this 7-Eleven, also known as Iran, “Let us start building a bunch of infrastructure for you. Let us take care of your energy and transportation. We also want to work on your technical stuff. We’ll allow you to be able to spy on all your employees at the 7-Eleven. Have you noticed that any of your 7-Eleven employees start sending stuff here or there and start saying bad things about you? Don’t worry about it because we’re China, and we know how to control all technology, like surveillance. So, for instance, if you need to kill 7,000 of your 7-Eleven employees, you can do that, and we can allow you to follow them. You want to round up 50,000 of them and question them for emails, text messages, and things they looked up online? We can help you with that as well.”

So at that point, China and the 7-Eleven/Iran are all in bed together. Why? Why all of this sort of stuff? Well, it all has to do with waterway transportation.

In 2023, Iran, using its proxies (other terrorists), was able to attack U.S. ships in the Red Sea. This was really good for China, not so good for the United States, because the Red Sea has container ships, and about 90% of them go through there.

It was an increased cost to the U.S. economy of about a trillion dollars, because now all of those ships had to go somewhere else and around. That’s through the African Cape of Good Hope, which increases the cost of transportation, which increases the cost, which is inflationary, which isn’t good, lasting about two weeks, total cost about a million dollars in fuel, additional million dollars in cost and fuel.

While the U.S. focuses on Iran, China courts the Gulf

So China is doing this to disrupt the U.S. economy. It knows that if it can have U.S. focusing on its 7-Eleven (Iran) and have everybody sitting there with all of our ships and all of our military ready to go, it’s consuming a lot of U.S. economy and U.S. military, like, for instance, those attacks they talked about in the Red Sea, they cost a U.S. Defense about a quarter of its high end interceptor inventory — just went down.

We shot all those missiles out. They took a lot of money. We didn’t have as many missiles. We had to get the missiles back again.

So the U.S. military is forced to try to guard, control, and stop anything from happening in that particular 7-Eleven while other stuff is happening around the world.

China loves this. China is able to meet with Gulf state monarchies, and it goes in and says, “Now listen, I know you don’t trust us. I know we’ve got some problems, but you can trust us, Saudi Arabia. In fact, I’ll tell you what, if you sell us more of your oil and stuff, we’ll come in and help you with infrastructure. We’ll help you with a whole bunch of stuff that you don’t already have. And you know what? The United States is not always your friend. We can be there for you. I know you don’t trust us, but it’s OK. Listen, we’ll cut you a deal. We’ll give you smart technology. We’ll do the same thing we did over at our 7-Eleven (Iran). And let’s face it, there’s a lot of instability in the world. You might want to come and work with us. It could be a better move for you.”

A battle for world currency and control

So you see, China also knows that Taiwan is the linchpin of this entire thing. The Taiwan Strait controls West Pacific trade routes. All Asian communities depend upon this. So if there are problems there, near Taiwan, if China gets in there and causes problems, well then we’ve got some big problems with all our allies in the East Asian community.

So at this point, we have a big problem, because it’s really about the United States and China. When you hear people going off on “No Blood for Oil” or “Death to America,” you’ve got to realize it’s a much bigger structural problem than just simply, “Oh, Trump’s a warlord,” or Trump and Vance, or some other garbage.

This gets down to China and the United States in a battle for world currency and control of the world. They want to be number one, and they also know that Taiwan is the main focus, because they know we can’t focus on Iran going in there, having all our ships constantly going back and forth, and being bombed while stuff’s happening over near Taiwan. If China can keep us focused on something else, like that 7-Eleven (Iran), it’s able to move in and do some other stuff near Taiwan.

So the Middle East, in constant chaos, drains the U.S. of military and alliance comfort. If a Taiwan crisis comes and the U.S. needs the Middle East friends for sanctions, like financial exclusionary stuff, technical denials, and things like that, to try to squeeze China.

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