TheAltWorld The US Military Campaign Against Iran Is Part Of Trump’s Grand Strategy Against China
The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity.
Trump claimed that the US’ military campaign against Iran is to “defend the American people”, while many critics have alleged (whether in jest or not) that it’s to distract from the Epstein Files, but few observers realize that it’s actually all about China. It was explained here that Trump 2.0 “decided to gradually deprive China of access to markets and resources, ideally through a series of trade deals, in order to imbue the US with the indirect leverage required to peacefully derail China’s superpower rise.”
To elaborate, “The US’ trade deals with the EU and India could ultimately result in them curtailing China’s access to their markets under pain of punitive tariffs if they refuse. In parallel, the US’ special operation in Venezuela, pressure on Iran, and simultaneous attempts to subordinate Nigeria and other leading energy producers could curtail China’s access to the resources required for fueling its superpower rise.” The resource dimension that’s relevant to Iran is a major part of the US’ “Strategy of Denial”.
That’s the brainchild of Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby, and it was expanded on in this analysis here from early January. As was written, “US influence over Venezuela’s and possibly soon Iran’s and Nigeria’s energy exports and trade ties with China could be weaponized via threats of curtailment or cut-offs in parallel with pressure upon its Gulf allies to do the same in pursuit of this goal”, which is to coerce China into indefinite junior partnership status vis-à-vis the US through a lopsided trade deal.
Most observers missed it, but the new National Security Strategy calls for ultimately “rebalance[ing] China’s economy toward household consumption”. This is a euphemism for radically re-engineering the global economy through the previously described means, namely curtailing China’s access to the markets and resources responsible for its superpower rise, so that it no longer remains “the world’s factory” and thus ends its era of being the US’ only systemic rival. US-led unipolarity would then be restored.
Circling back to Iran, “[it] represented about 13.4% of the total 10.27 MMbpd of oil [that China] imported by sea” last year per Kpler, hence why the US wants to control, curtail, or outright cut off this flow. ‘Plan A’ was to achieve this through diplomatic means for replicating the Venezuelan model that entered into effect after Maduro’s capture. Iran flirted with this but didn’t commit since it would entail the country’s strategic surrender, ergo why Trump authorized military action for achieving this instead.
In pursuit of this, Trump promised the IRGC in his video announcing his country’s military campaign against Iran that they’d have immunity if they laid down their arms. This reinforces the abovementioned claim that the US wants to replicate the Venezuelan model since it strongly suggests that he envisages newly US-aligned IRGC running Iran in the political interim before new elections just like the newly US-aligned Venezuelan security services run their own country during their own current political interim.
Such a scenario would avert Iran’s possible “Balkanization”, thus preserving the state so that it can then resume its prior role as one of the US’ top regional allies, which might then aid the Azeri-Turkish Axis’ efforts to project Western influence along Russia’s entire southern periphery. In that event, the US would simultaneously obtain unparalleled resource leverage over China via proxy control of Iran’s oil and gas industries while tightening its encirclement of Russia, which would deal a powerful blow to multipolarity.
https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-us-military-campaign-against
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This theory might apply to the US but not to “israel”, which decides and leads US foreign policy, at least in West Asia.
Trump is the little lapdog of his zionist masters, and it is like that since 2016. Not that other president weren’t zionist puppets either though.
It also doesn’t match the lack of reaction from China following the new sneak terror attack from the Trump regime and its puppet master netanyahu.
This is what China is doing following the US aggression;
Chinese FM holds phone talks with Russian counterpart over U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran
https://english.news.cn/20260301/9503146201ba4eed9a6ec93611064752/c.html
Talking, bringing the matter to the UN (aka making sure nothing will happen).
If 13% of its oil comes from Iran and another part from Venezuela, how come they did nothing to stop US aggression against Venezuela and do nothing when it comes to Iran, while the are very much closer to Iran?
Or are they the one orchestrating the crushing retaliation by Iran against the two rogue states, USA and ‘israel”?
Iran’s Weapon Of Mass Economic Destruction: Hormuz
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-strait-of-hormuz-a-weapon-of
“We are fighting the Epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs little girls.”
While not officially closed, the Strait of Hormuz is a “no-go” zone for major international carriers after Iran’s military threats coupled with direct attacks on merchant vessels. Iran’s deliberate strike on the oil tanker Skylight – wounding four sailors just five miles north of Oman’s Khasab port – has ignited a crisis that extends far beyond the immediate violence. The attack, delivered after the vessel ignored Iranian orders to avoid the strait, serves as the opening salvo in what is rapidly becoming a systematic disruption of global energy supplies.
The consequences so far is such that 200 vessels now sit stranded outside the Strait of Hormuz, including at least 150 oil and gas tankers that should be powering the global economy. Commercial traffic has collapsed by 70%, while 170 container ships remain trapped inside unable to exit as Iran asserts control over international shipping lanes.
The world’s largest carriers have already capitulated, with Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM,and Hapag-Lloyd suspending all transits through the critical waterway.
Latest waves of Op. True Promise 4 resulted in tanker strikes, base shutdowns, heavy casualties
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/01/764872/Iran-IRGC-strikes-United-States-Israel-tankers-bases-Kuwait-Bahrain
They resulted in missile strikes on three US and British oil tankers, the shutdown of key American naval facilities in Kuwait, heavy damage to a US base in Bahrain, and hundreds of American military casualties, it noted.
They resulted in missile strikes on three US and British oil tankers, the shutdown of key American naval facilities in Kuwait, heavy damage to a US base in Bahrain, and hundreds of American military casualties, it noted.
US facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain targeted, causing 100s of American casualties
The IRGC said the US’s Ali Al-Salem naval base in Kuwait was “completely forced out of operation” following the latest strikes. It also reported destruction of three maritime American infrastructural facilities at the Mohammed Al-Ahmad Naval Base in Kuwait.
In Bahrain, the US naval base in Mina Salman was struck with four drones, causing severe damage to its command and support centers.
The whereabouts of US forces in Bahrain was also targeted with two ballistic missiles, while other American bases across the region were subjected to successive counterattacks.
The statement said the strikes have so far resulted in 560 US military personnel getting killed and wounded.
Earlier strike on USS Abraham Lincoln
The Corps’ statement also followed an earlier announcement in which it said it had targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with four ballistic missiles.
Islamic Resistance in Iraq announces it has carried out 23 operations using dozens of drones against hostile bases in Iraq and the region since Sunday dawn
https://english.almanar.com.lb/article/28927/
about 2 hours ago
Unexpected Iranian reaction paralyzed Americans and Israelis on the first day of war
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/01/unexpected-iranian-reaction-paralyzed-americans-and-israelis-on-the-first-day-of-war/
tronl rump
China is definitely impacted but will be able to stay afloat if the Hormuz Strait closes for good. We can’t say the same for emerging countries and Europe, which will be in recession and the US to follow.
Has the prostitute Trump be installed in power by his pimps to trigger a global recession?
It looks very much like it.
The $200 Oil Shock: What Happens If the Strait of Hormuz Closes
https://longyield.substack.com/p/the-200-oil-shock-what-happens-if
Energy prices surge as tanker disruptions and facility shutdowns rattle global supply
https://www.dailynews.com/2026/03/02/oil-prices-strait-of-hormuz/
We knew he was stupid, we knew he was corrupt, we knew he doesn’t give a damn about the USA bu it’s all about his ego, we know start to know that the Epstein files they have on him must be really damning. Pedophile and rapist?