IRAN: AN ENERGY CRUNCH AIMED AT WEAKENING CHINA?
The Iran war aids the dominance of the US empire over China, according to this game theory approach. But that might just be a secondary benefit . It seems a long shot
I believe the economic power that China holds plays a large role in every major U.S. foreign policy decision.
That said, this also means I don't believe there is just one group of people looking to control the world, but multiple vying interests across different regions and different ideologies.
Yes agree . . . BRICS is about the prevention of just one group controlling the world: that’s the post-WW2 (and more importantly post-Soviet Union) unipolar world controlled by USA and the supremacy of the US dollar backed-up not by gold but by aircraft carriers. BRICS constituting almost 50% of the world’s population wants a multipolar world based free trade and peaceful coexistence of countries with different ideologies. I could be wrong, but that’s how I see it. Mind you I’m very biased against US imperialism as I lived through the Vietnam war during my university days (that probably happened before you were born - although I presume you were an adult in 2003 when US imperialism destroyed Iraq followed by Libya and Syria. . . and today, Iran