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China helped Iran start its nuclear program in the 1980s and continued helping them in the 1990s.
China has a business relationship with Iran. They are not actual friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAY1Po5Ixek
The new Syrian government has allowed and committed murders of multiple ethnic minorities. Syria seems to have replaced one authoritarian state with another. The Kurds were crushed by the government after Trump abandoned them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lFXfnU4sk
The Marines expect to be fighting where they may be on islands cutoff from resupply and need a weapon easy to maintain. They also expect to be close to the enemy, so a larger mag size is more important than the distance the bullet fires. And thus, the Marines are not adapting the Army’s new rifle. The Marines also don’t want to deal with the growing pains of adopting a new rifle and ammunition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkiqJsAxj0
Republican and Democratic senators had a deal that would fund all of Homeland Security except ICE, but Trump said no.
Trump is paying a French company one billion dollars to stop a wind farm project and instead invest in oil and gas projects because Trump has an irrational bias against wind energy. He thinks they are ugly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOgbQHKQa7s
Trump handles serious questions about his war in Iran with glib dishonesty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhzCmOlHJBw
“The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/french-company-stops-us-offshore-172230712.html
Iran installed a lot of security cameras to help control its people. Israel hacked them and they helped Israel assassinate Iran’s leader.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-built-vast-camera-network-120218284.html
The US allowing Iran to ship its oil while Iran stops most others, except those it gives permission, is a sign of weakness from the US. Trump isn’t willing to face the pain of much higher oil prices. If Trump isn’t willing to take such pain, then why would Iran agree to any significant demands?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnHfKyNcDHY
The 2k or so marines sailing toward Iran from the Pacific, leaving two weeks after the war started for some reason, are not numerous enough to take and hold contested land, like Kharg Island, without heavy casualties. They may be able to make a beachhead in the province of Baluchestan where: the land is further away from the Strait of Hormuz, further away from Tehran, the US has better air supremacy, a landing would be surrounded by open lands where an Iranian attack could be easily seen, and the locals may be sympathetic because they are a different ethnic group and religion than the Persians and already have separatist rebels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9xuuc1U_pc
Former US Colonel Peter Mansoor says Trump thought Iran would surrender just from air attacks and didn’t have a plan for if they didn’t. He also said the war is unconstitutional, and that while a part of him is happy to see Iran get pain after killing hundreds of Americans in the Iraq war, most of him worries that Trump doesn’t have a plan and has opened a can of worms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPfiSB-MN8