Black Gold; Texas Tea
The nature of the financial system described above should make it self-evident that any threat to the status quo would be deemed
“a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States”. It should be equally obvious that this system is what has allowed the U.S. to levy economic sanctions against its perceived enemies
and its allies, and debt-finance the most expensive military in the history of mankind, to ruthlessly enforce their global hegemony.
“Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.” — Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address, Jan. 23, 1980
And who poses the biggest threat to the dying American empire’s continued control over the oil and other resources required to operate its political, economic and military machinery?
Russia, China and Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Russia is the third largest oil producer (11.3 mb/d) behind the U.S. (17.6 mb/d) and Saudi Arabia (12 mb/d). Russia is the world’s largest oil exporter to global markets, and the second largest crude oil exporter behind Saudi Arabia. The map below shows the network of existing and proposed pipelines from Russia through and around Ukraine, to Europe.
China is the world’s largest oil and natural gas importer.
For the first-half of 2023, China imported 2.13 million barrels per day of Russian crude oil, making Russia its single biggest supplier. In June, China once again imported record-breaking levels of Russian crude, amounting to a 44% increase compared to the same month in 2022.
Further,
BRICS members Russia and China have been conducting joint military exercises since 2005, recognizing that American greed and ambition, not so cleverly disguised and deceitfully advanced as NATO peace-keeping efforts, would not stop at their doorsteps, but would continue until Russia and China too were subjugated.
The circumstances that have brought about all of the sanctions, “regime changes” and proxy wars funded by the U.S. government (at the U.S. taxpayers’ expense) over the past 70+ years have one thing in common: they either threaten or are presumed to threaten the oil-dependent, petrodollar empire. Labels such as “communism”, “dictatorship”, “liberal, left-wing extremism”, and “terrorism”, etc., are merely recycled and reused to start wars all over the world to advance
American imperialism,
the lifeblood of which is oil.
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