A competent administration would have filled the reserves to capacity (75MM barrels) before starting shit with Iran. I am going to take a wild huess that they did not do that.
I mean they did nab Venezuela’s oil right before all of this. They may be using the Iran war to throw a wrench into global supply and thus make Venezuelan oil more attractive. The geopolitical value of Venezuela’s oil undoubtedly spiked at the onset of the war.
That’s 4D chess, so I doubt it. More likely is that they assumed that the Iranian regime was at a tipping point (it was), and figured theyncould swoop in, bring “freedoms” and take all the oil from an American/Saudi/UAE/Israel puppet government. Instead, all they did was solidify the existing regime and multiply their influence by an ordernof magnitude, while significantly decreasing the US standing and influence in geopolitics.
It’s pretty clear that at no point did the US plan for Iran closing the state. They should have. Every previous US government considered it the primary danger of a war with Iran. But Trump doesn’t surround himself with smart people.
Also there’s credible reporting that their belief that Iran would not close the strait was reinforced by the AI planning systems they recently invested in. So that’s fun. The blind leading the stupid.
A competent administration would have filled the reserves to capacity (75MM barrels) before starting shit with Iran. I am going to take a wild huess that they did not do that.
I mean they did nab Venezuela’s oil right before all of this. They may be using the Iran war to throw a wrench into global supply and thus make Venezuelan oil more attractive. The geopolitical value of Venezuela’s oil undoubtedly spiked at the onset of the war.
That’s 4D chess, so I doubt it. More likely is that they assumed that the Iranian regime was at a tipping point (it was), and figured theyncould swoop in, bring “freedoms” and take all the oil from an American/Saudi/UAE/Israel puppet government. Instead, all they did was solidify the existing regime and multiply their influence by an ordernof magnitude, while significantly decreasing the US standing and influence in geopolitics.
It’s pretty clear that at no point did the US plan for Iran closing the state. They should have. Every previous US government considered it the primary danger of a war with Iran. But Trump doesn’t surround himself with smart people.
Also there’s credible reporting that their belief that Iran would not close the strait was reinforced by the AI planning systems they recently invested in. So that’s fun. The blind leading the stupid.
And or just not stuck their dicks in the bear trap that is Iran.
Seriously.