As the largest oil importer in the world, China would be hit hard. But the end result of that would be bad for us: China would seek replacement oil from the most reliable, closest source: Russia. A pipeline runs through Kazakhstan right into China. So we would drive the two other biggest rivals of America closer together just when we should be splitting them apart.
So what's the upside? There's plenty of upside to the Saudis, who bribe Trump and many other Congressmen. The Quds Forces has been one of the main foils to Saudi-sponsered terror in the Middle East, as well as their main rivals both in Iraq and on the Arabian Peninsula. There's also plenty of upside for Israel, a parasitic nation which bribes our congressmen, spies on us, sells our military secrets to foreign countries, and receives exorbitant aid packages from us despite being one of the wealthiest countries on earth. The Quds force don't target Americans outside of the Middle East by and large, mostly focusing on American military targets engaged in proxy conflicts. Their main target, as well as that of Hezbollah (to whom they are tied), is Israel.
And that's what the warmongers will never mention: there are different kinds of 'terrorists'. Shi'a terrorists typically target Sunni groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda and Israeli targets, going after American personnel only when we're engaging in operations within Shi'a territory. These groups almost never target Western countries, largely fighting asymmetric insurgency battles and proxy wars in their own back yards. Sunni (especially Salafi) terror groups, on the other hand, do not. They are the ones who organize the overwhelming majority of attacks on American and European soil.
So to anyone reading and understanding this, it must not make much sense. Why are we allied with countries like Saudi Arabia, who fund groups like ISIS and possess ties to Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab? Why do we consider a Shi'a group, which targets these groups and Israeli targets, as a super-serious threat to the US, but our CIA has been funding and arming the very groups who target us at home (Operation Timber Sycamore)? Does this make ANY sense to anyone? Why are we about to start a war with likely catastrophically bad consequences for our armed forces, and a cost in the trillions, to fight the Shi'a groups?
Well, I'll tell you. It's because Trump sold out. He promised us an America First foreign policy, which put our interests first and kept us out of Middle East quagmires. But he's not exercizing an America First foreign policy. He's exercizing an Israel First and Saudi First foreign policy. And he's not the only one. Israel buys out and threatens the vast majority of American Congressmen. If they go against Israeli interests, their primary opponents will see a sudden influx of cash from a dispersed network of Israeli PACs run by dual citizens of the US and Israel. If they play ball, they will get nice free trips to Israel with VIP treatment and healthy campaign donations.
We're worried about RUSSIAN interference in US election? The Saudis are renting out extra rooms in Trumps hotel to feed money into his business, and mysteriously seem to get anything they want out of him. Why isn't Congress investigating that!? Well, it's because most of them have half their bodies in the trough as well. That's why we're funding the same Syrian terrorist groups that want to kill us. It's why we're selling bombs to the Saudis that end up being launched at school-buses full of Shi'a children in Yemen. It's why we just killed a national hero to Shi'a Muslims not just in Iran, but in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen as well, right after he just got done helping us clean ISIS's clock. This is why Trump wants to send your buddies, your family, to go bleed out in the Middle East. Not to avenge fallen Americans; we're allied with the people who funded the groups that killed most of them. It's because Saudi Arabia wants to project its power further into Iraq. It's because if the Shi'a militias start to gain a foothold in Iraq and Syria, Israel will feel threatened. That's why Trump wants to send your sons and daughters to die. That's not what I voted for.
