Every Oil Thread in the Strait of Hormuz Leads Back to China — Here Are the Receipts
Trump didn’t just demand Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He blockaded it himself. That only makes sense if the target isn’t Iran — it’s China. China gets a third of its crude through Hormuz. America produces its own. While 800 ships sat stranded, Iran’s ghost fleet ran crude to Chinese refineries without interruption — 85 tankers tracked at a single transfer point off Malaysia, $3 billion to the IRGC since the war started. A Congressional investigation found China spent years building a 1.2 billion barrel strategic reserve by buying sanctioned oil from Iran, Russia, and Venezuela through shadow fleets. And Venezuela is where all three relationships converged in our hemisphere — until Trump took that piece off the board in January. Iran’s piece is gone. That leaves China.
Part three of the Strait of Hormuz series. Part one: empty supertankers racing to America. Part two: Trump’s blockade isn’t about Iran. Part three: the receipts.
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Eric Garland is a career intelligence analyst sanctioned by Vladimir Putin in 2022 alongside three CIA directors. His 2016 Game Theory Thread was named by the New York Times as one of the 25 most important tweets in history. He is the author of Future, Inc. (AMACOM, 2007) and How to Predict the Future…and WIN!
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