U.S. Navy ships intercept Iranian tankers in the Gulf of Oman
You want to turn it into private property in the United States
Iran trades around the dollar to take a digital currency
To achieve decentralized settlement of cross-border transactions
Oil wars are geopolitical
It has always played a crucial role
Where there is oil, there is an army
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The conspiracy behind the war
Gulf of Oman
On November 3, 2021, U.S. Navy ships intercepted an oil tanker carrying Iranian oil exports in the Gulf of Oman and transferred the oil from the tanker to another tanker in an attempt to transport the tanker to an unknown destination.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy acted in time to perform a "helicopter burning mission" on the deck of the tanker, quickly took control of the second tanker, and introduced it into Iranian waters despite the resistance of the US military. After the U.S. military then used multiple helicopters and warships to pursue the tanker and failed, the U.S. military again tried to send a large number of manpower and more warships to block the intercepting tanker, but failed again. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said that under the heroic and timely actions of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the operation of american "pirates" to steal Iranian oil ended in failure.
Former U.S. Embassy in Iran
On November 4, large-scale anti-American demonstrations were held in about 800 cities across Iran, as it marked the 42nd anniversary of iran's hostage crisis, and this year's anti-American activities were more grand than ever as Iran released detailed images of oil recovered from the U.S. military a day earlier.
Early in the morning, tens of thousands of students and people had gathered in front of the former U.S. Embassy in central Tehran. They held up all kinds of anti-American slogans, shouted slogans to bring down the United States, and some people burned the American flag. Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander-in-Chief Salami gave a speech praising the bravery of Revolutionary Guard soldiers in snatching back stolen oil from U.S. troops. He also warned regional countries that the security of the Persian Gulf region should be guaranteed by regional countries, and Iran does not seek war, but will resolutely defend its own interests.
Kissinger
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said that whoever controls oil controls all countries; whoever controls food controls all people; whoever controls the currency controls the whole world. After the 19th century, almost every political and military operation by the United States was related to oil.
Civil War -
In 1859, the United States gave birth to the world's earliest oil industry, at first oil is used to make the fuel for lamps, in some of the more developed cities in Europe and the United States, street lights and residential lights have been quite popular, when the idea of oil developers is to extract more oil, let more cities industrialize to sell more oil and bulbs, but these ideas were ruthlessly rejected by the southern states of the United States, because the South of the United States was much richer than the North at that time. They don't want to industrialize!
However, the federal government was very tough on the southern states, which held a large amount of land but refused to industrialize, and directly launched a war to eliminate all the forces that did not agree with industrialization, which is called the Civil War. The war initially freed black slaves, because when black slaves were nominally liberated, there was still a system of apartheid. The war also gained a larger agricultural population, some of whom left the land and then entered the factories, contributing to the industrialization of the northern states, and it was this war that laid the absolute leadership of the bourgeoisie in the United States.
World War I -
The world hegemon at the time was the British Empire, which wanted to continue its hegemony in the oil age and regarded the rising Germany as the number one enemy. Britain had diesel-burning tanks and warships, Germany had gasoline-burning iron coffin armored vehicles, and France had its own newly developed artillery and assault tanks, all of which were very good, but they had no oil, they could not fight without fuel, and their fuel could only be imported from the United States.
On the other hand, the United States let both sides sell oil and weapons, became an arms dealer, and saw the opportunity to join the Allies at the end of the war, transformed into a victorious country, and occupied the moral high ground through some political ideas. However, Britain and France were not fools, and they joined hands at the Versailles Conference to not allow the United States to gain any substantial benefits, and the plan of the United States to attack world leaders for the first time was in vain.
Attack on Pearl Harbor -
In World War II, the United States completely controlled the lifeblood of Japan's resources, and as the war continued, Japan's domestic finances became more and more tense.
At that time, Japan was faced with two choices: First, it was soft, submitted to the United States, admitted the defeat of the war, and withdrew its troops from China. Second, go south to compete for the Pacific region and get local rubber and oil, but this is bound to touch the interests of the United States.
If the defeat is admitted, Japan will certainly not agree, and the economic crisis is bound to cause Japan to collapse. If it attacks the Pacific region from the south, although it is bound to make Japan face the wrath of the United States, Japan can obtain the resources used to maintain the war, so that Japan can avoid the defeat of the war in a short period of time and get the opportunity to turn around. The lesser of the two, so the Japanese Navy decided to preemptively attack Pearl Harbor.
The Middle East War —
The Middle East War broke out in 1973 to force the United States to choose between the Seven Sisters and OPEC. Egypt and Syria actually represent the interests of the oil-producing countries of the Middle East, while Israel is a Jewish country, and the capitalists in the United States are mostly Jews, and the United States does not dare to offend these financiers.
Therefore, the United States, which was in full swing at that time, supported Israel at the expense of national strength. This behavior completely annoyed the OPEC countries in the Middle East. These OPEC countries joined forces to impose an oil embargo on Europe, the United States and Japan, and the international oil price rose from a long-term $3 to a $10, and the price suddenly tripled, causing countries around the world to suffer economic blows to varying degrees at that time. The Bretton Woods system painstakingly established by the United States after the war completely collapsed, and European countries began to reject the dollar.
Iran-Iraq War -
World crude oil production fell from 5.8 million barrels to less than 1 million barrels, and the price of oil soared as it fell. The Soviet Union made huge profits, and in the years that followed, the Soviet Union had a great advantage in the Cold War.
In the face of the strong rise of the Soviet Union, the United States and OPEC finally shook hands and made peace, greatly increasing oil production, resulting in a sharp decline in international oil prices, which made the Soviet Union already on the battlefield in Afghanistan seriously hurt. Since then, the Soviet economy has continued to deteriorate until the third oil crisis broke out in Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when oil prices rose.
At this time, the recuperating United States sent troops to Iraq, and in less than 30 days, it wiped out Saddam's most proud army and tank units one by one, and the US military did not even exert its full strength, and Saddam Hussein was directly captured. As a result of this war, the United States effortlessly regained control of a large oil-producing region.
The United States imposes unilateral sanctions on Iran
The United States withdrew from the Iranian nuclear agreement in 2018 to restart sanctions against Iran and banned Iran's oil exports in November 2017, when the United States offered a six-month exemption period to eight major buyers of Iranian oil. China, South Korea, India, Japan and Turkey have mostly reduced their imports of Iranian oil during the U.S. sanctions waiver for Iranian oil; India's imports of Iranian oil have halved from 560,000 barrels per day to 258,000 barrels. After the United States lifted the exemption, Japan was the first to say that it would stop buying Iranian oil. Subsequently, South Korea followed Japan to join the ranks of the suspension. Turkey recently said it would buy more oil from Iraq.
U.S. shale oil
In the past decade, the international energy market has undergone revolutionary changes, and the shale revolution has driven a surge in production, which has also led to a major change in the role of the United States in the international energy market, with the technology mastered to extract oil and natural gas buried deep in the shale layer, the United States crude oil production has doubled in just 10 years.
According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, crude oil production in the United States increased by 17% over the previous year in 2018, reaching an average of 10.95 million barrels per day, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia and leaping to become the world's largest oil producer. U.S. oil exports are expected to surpass Russia and approach Saudi Arabia by 2024. Today, the United States has both global energy dominance and global financial hegemony. It is the combination of these two that makes America's oil weapons show unprecedented power.
Over the past two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has slashed demand for fuel, bankrupting more than 40 drilling companies across the Country. U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order banning oil and gas extraction permits on public lands and, more broadly, abandoning the use of fossil fuels, with the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
In addition, more than 120 countries, including China, the United Kingdom and Canada, have pledged to achieve net zero emissions over the next 30 years. Carbon neutrality plans in various countries are centered on electricity energy, which will have a great impact on fuel demand.
In December 2020, OPEC+ decided to increase the scale of oil production by 500,000 barrels per day from January this year, that is, the joint production reduction scale, reducing the scale of 500,000 barrels per day, and the meeting decided to maintain the output level in January and March. To support the global oil market and withstand the latest shock of the epidemic, Saudi Arabia has pledged to voluntarily reduce production by another 1 million barrels per day, which began in February and lasted from the end of March. But Russia fears that prolonged support for oil prices would backfire, spurring U.S. shale oil back into production or ramping up production, which would offset OPEC+'s efforts.
There is an old Chinese saying, "Why should you be a thief?" "Meaning, you were originally a good person, why did you allow yourself to fall into depravity and steal things?" Why should the United States steal oil?
Three reasons: First, it's too cold this winter. Second, in this extremely cold winter, there is an energy shortage, and the price of natural gas and oil is getting higher and higher every day. Third, the United States asks oil-producing countries to increase production to reduce prices, and other oil-producing countries ignore the United States.
The United States is no longer the United States of the past, the era of the United States turning its hands into clouds and rain in the international crude oil market has passed, and the disintegration of the "Seven Sisters" has been almost half a century. In this way, the United States will make this decision, using warships as pirate ships and calling the US Navy a pirate.
This is really, Qingben beauty peach blossom face, why be a thief to steal oil!
14 November, 19:15 pm
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