In the last post, Good Moral Compasses argued that those so-called conservatives and Republicans who are against any military action in Iran are short-sighted in their opposition. They have forgotten that Iran has been the largest purveyor of terror in the world for the past forty-seven years and an avowed enemy of the United States.
Those in charge in Iran have little or no concern for human life, as seen by the recent killing of over 12,000 of their own protestors, along with the retaliatory attacks on civilian targets of their neighbors in the Middle East. Using drones, they bombed the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai. The common understanding is that protestors and hotels are never considered military targets. The so-called war started with Iran’s disingenuousness during recent talks with the U.S.
Iran’s negotiations with the United States fell apart when it became apparent that they were not serious about halting ballistic missile production and the continued work on creating a nuclear bomb. The back-and-forth discussions stalled, with no real slowdown of munitions production, a definition of what has been happening for the past forty-seven years of U.S.-Iranian diplomacy. After four decades, Trump was the only U.S. leader to stop the merry-go-round.
Crucial as it is that Iranian bomb making is halted and destroyed, it is not the only reason for the destruction of Iran’s military capabilities. Less obvious but equally important is how the military action has positive ramifications for slowing China’s global ambitions and power.
Few people realize that the military action in Venezuela was the precursor of the action in Iran. Both campaigns are connected by world energy. The arrest of Maduro in Venezuela established a workable relationship with the United States, which did not exist before. Part of the relationship is financial and beneficial for both countries. So far, the U.S. has received 80 million barrels of oil from the Latin American Country. Eighty million barrels of oil that the oil-starved Communist China hasn’t received is a strategy to isolate China from Latin America. China and Iran are more allies than with Venezuela, and the attack on Iran is also an indirect attack on China.
China has many raw materials, but one of them is not oil. It is ranked 13th in the world for oil reserves. China’s energy needs far outstrip what it can supply, and it looks to countries that can meet them. Iran is a major exporter of oil to China. China imports a whopping 80% of Iran’s oil. The trade agreement is symbiotic; China gets the oil, and Iran is funded to continue its terrorist ambitions.
What might also happen as a byproduct of the military action against Iran is that the threat of an imminent invasion of Taiwan by China might be put on hold in the short term. Not that it is impossible, but it would be more difficult logistically when China scrambles to secure other sources of oil from Russia and the Middle East.
The military option in Iran exercised by Trump was more than just stopping the radical terrorist state from continuing on a forty-seven-year path; it is about peace in the Middle East and the world, to disrupt China’s plans to threaten America by severely attacking its energy needs.