Geopolitical paranoia

 

Credit: The Fourth Way 

An interesting speculation about Trump´s Iran War. From JMG´s blog.  

>>>Paul, gasoline/petrol at the gas station a block from my apartment is US$3.99 a gallon and there are no shortages. 

>>>I’m pretty sure that the point of the US takeover of Venezuela was to make sure that there would be plenty of Venezuelan tar sand extract to mix with our fracking liquids (you need both to make something roughly approximating gasoline). 

>>>US fossil fuel companies are raking in money like nobody’s business — but then we get almost none of our fuel from the Persian Gulf these days. Nearly all of that goes to Europe and Asia, which are getting hammered. It’s occurred to me more than once that this may be deliberate.

In other words: one of the goals of the recent Mideast war is to put pressure on Europe so it can´t support Ukraine. When Europe sanctioned Russian oil and gas, Qatar and other Mideast providers suddenly became more important. But now, that source is gone, too. Making Europe dependent on American fossil fuels.

But why do pro-Ukrainian politicians such as Lindsey Graham support the Iran war? Didn´t he see this coming? Maybe the anti-European faction "sold" the war to Trump as an anti-European move? While Trump was always aggressive towards the Iranian regime, his prefered strategy during the first presidency was to attack them through black-ops and geopolitical stratagems. John Bolton was fired for wanting to openly attack actual Iranian territory. Maybe he decided to switch to Bolton´s position for very non-Boltonian (and non-Grahamian) reasons.

What if closing the Strait of Hormuz was the plan all along?