Western Standard - ＂This isn’t just about Iran — it’s about China＂

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00:00:00.000 It's just that you haven't perhaps explored whether this isn't really about Iran, but is about China.

00:00:09.780 China basically has colonized Iran in the sense that it has created a forward operating base in the Middle East,

00:00:18.820 sitting right on top of 80% of the world's oil supplies.

00:00:23.580 You might recall that very recently the Yanks pulled Maduro out of Venezuela.

00:00:28.820 What did he do wrong?

00:00:29.700 well he was a bad dude but the significance of venezuela wasn't one more bad dude being pulled

00:00:36.580 from the game it was the fact that the chinese who were buying 90 of what venezuela produced

00:00:42.900 suddenly had to find a place for oil and they have been working on iran for decades to to develop

00:00:51.380 iran as that source so actually we think about american imperialism and we think about the old

00:00:58.980 british empire and we have our sort of our forces distributed all over the world to seek our best

00:01:05.540 advantage but that is what china was doing and they were doing it in around they were doing it

00:01:10.660 it in Venezuela. So this really is about kicking China out of the Middle East.

Western Standard - March 08, 2026