Western Standard - March 08, 2026


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

Topics
kicking China out of the Middle Easterns
Mentioned
Maduro
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1 minute

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Word count

193

Sentence count

5

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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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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 0.90
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 0.80
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. 0.74