Just because Pakistan is attempting to mediate does not mean that Iran is begging for peace and negotiation., which Trump is trying to tell the world. Trump can fart as much as he likes, just like the farting over negotiations with the Chinese, with all the done deals that were just imaginary scenarios from a bankrupt mind.
Trump farted about ending the war withing 4 to 5 days with another fart extending to 4 to 5 weeks. As that fart evaporated and foul the air, the war is still on. It never seems to be ending soon. He farted about having destroyed the air force, naval force and taken out all the weapons of the Iranians. It still never stopped the Iranians from retaliating. How is that possible when Iran has been practically destroyed?
For all we know, Iran does not even have a credible air force and naval force to reckon with in the first place. Iran knows challenging the USA in the air and at sea is a losing proposition. Iran concentrated on producing effective weapons to fight a 21st century war, like the Chinese, where projection of power by aircraft carriers is being decimated by hypersonic drones and missiles. As the range of those hypersonic missiles increase and aircraft carriers having to move further away from shorelines, it defeats the whole concept of aircraft carriers launching fighter jets from its deck to carry out carpet bombing. Fighter jets probably do not have the range to fly missions and return to the deck of those carriers. Moreover, countries like Sri Lanka do not allow USA fighter jets to make use of its airbase to launch bombing missions against Iran as requested by the USA. Logical thinking does not need precedence.
As I said before, China learned much from Iran in its strategy fighting this war. China is using this war to test its eye in the sky, its hypersonic weapon's effectiveness, it's resilience in the face of energy blockade that has been the focus of the USA. All these are basically dry runs before the real thing being studied by China. China is building up its self-dependence in energy, going big time into renewals and cutting dependence on fossil fuel. China is tapping into nuclear, hydro, solar and wind energy to prepare for the day when blockades occur. Now, China gets its oil via pipelines from Russia, by rail from Iran and building facilities for Middle East oil via Pakistan. Each five- year plan are small steps but a big leap for China.
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There are now in fact three main crude oil pipelines serving China. From the North is the Power of Siberia from Russia, feeding China with about 30 million tons capacity a year. To the West runs the China-Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 30 million tons a year. To the South runs the China Myanmar crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 22 million tons a year. These are energy supplies, small it may be, created to avoid all the choke points, which China is seriously working out its strategy.
The blockade strategy by the USA had been around for decades, created solely for the purpose of suffocating China. China saw and understood the evil agenda of the USA and had all along been doing its best to overcome this National Security issue.
China's heavy investments into high speed rails, migrating its dependence on ICE vehicles to EVs with huge incentives being trotted out has been very successful to say the least. It was not a scheme created to end in failure. This has saved China from heavy reliance on imported fossil fuel, which has plateaued off over the last few years. Before that, the growth of imported fossil fuel was exponential, being needed to feed China's manufacturing appetite. Analysts are expecting China's reliance on crude oil to even decline in the coming years. This is possible with China's huge investments in renewables and its own expansion in the oil extraction sector at home.
Correction:
...the China Kazakhstan crude oil pipeline with a capacity of 20 million tons a year.
My apologies. Anon 2.15
The China Myanmar pipeline is to serve imports from the Middle East and African crude.
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