We Don’t Have an Iran Problem. We Have a China Problem.
In my last video I showed you every oil thread in the Strait of Hormuz leads back to China. But the pattern doesn’t stop at oil. China is the principal source of fentanyl precursor chemicals flowing to Mexican cartels. Chinese money laundering networks service cartel cash worldwide. Those same cartels have documented operational ties to Iran going back over a decade — including a Quds Force plot to hire a cartel hit squad to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington. And now US intelligence says China is routing anti-aircraft missiles to Iran through third countries while brokering the ceasefire.
At what point do you stop treating these as separate policy problems and start seeing a pattern?
Part four 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 all lead to China. Part four: this was never about Iran.
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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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