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Hysteria reigned supreme after the first round of US sanctions were reinstated against Iran over the past week. War scenarios abound, and yet the key aspect of the economic war unleashed by the Trump administration has been overlooked: Iran is a major piece in a much larger chessboard. The US sanctions offensive, launched after Washington’s unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, should be interpreted as an advance gambit in the New Great Game at whose center lies China’s New Silk Road – arguably the most important infrastructure project of the 21st century — and overall Eurasia integration.… As I have been saying, the objective is to defeat competitors using economic warfare. The chief competitor of the US is China. Taking down China involves first taking down Iran and
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: economic warfare, geopolitics, geostrategy
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Hysteria reigned supreme after the first round of US sanctions were reinstated against Iran over the past week. War scenarios abound, and yet the key aspect of the economic war unleashed by the Trump administration has been overlooked: Iran is a major piece in a much larger chessboard. The US sanctions offensive, launched after Washington’s unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, should be interpreted as an advance gambit in the New Great Game at whose center lies China’s New Silk Road – arguably the most important infrastructure project of the 21st century — and overall Eurasia integration.… As I have been saying, the objective is to defeat competitors using economic warfare. The chief competitor of the US is China. Taking down China involves first taking down Iran and
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: economic warfare, geopolitics, geostrategy
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Hysteria reigned supreme after the first round of US sanctions were reinstated against Iran over the past week. War scenarios abound, and yet the key aspect of the economic war unleashed by the Trump administration has been overlooked: Iran is a major piece in a much larger chessboard.
The US sanctions offensive, launched after Washington’s unilateral pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, should be interpreted as an advance gambit in the New Great Game at whose center lies China’s New Silk Road – arguably the most important infrastructure project of the 21st century — and overall Eurasia integration.…
As I have been saying, the objective is to defeat competitors using economic warfare. The chief competitor of the US is China. Taking down China involves first taking down Iran and Russia.
If economic warfare doesn't do it, then kinetic warfare will follow, unless the US leadership changes and the policy of permanent US global hegemony is abandoned.
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