＂This isn’t just about Iran — it’s about China＂
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss the removal of Venezuelan President Maduro from the White House, and why this is not about Iran, but about China's oil supplies in the Middle East. China has been colonizing Iran for decades, and now they have to find a place to produce their own oil.
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It's just that you haven't perhaps explored whether this isn't really about Iran, but is about China.
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China basically has colonized Iran in the sense that it has created a forward operating base in the Middle East,
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sitting right on top of 80% of the world's oil supplies.
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You might recall that very recently the Yanks pulled Maduro out of Venezuela.
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well he was a bad dude but the significance of venezuela wasn't one more bad dude being pulled
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from the game it was the fact that the chinese who were buying 90 of what venezuela produced
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suddenly had to find a place for oil and they have been working on iran for decades to to develop
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iran as that source so actually we think about american imperialism and we think about the old
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british empire and we have our sort of our forces distributed all over the world to seek our best
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advantage but that is what china was doing and they were doing it in around they were doing it
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it in Venezuela. So this really is about kicking China out of the Middle East.
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