—“Curt, please explain the chart. ty.”—bagofcells

 

Outline Map:

..Black = major oil fields

..Red= Iran’s sphere of influence (conquest)

..Green=those who want to contain iran.

..Blue= India and Russia (partnership)

..Yellow = China (power hungry)

Yellow-Red Map:

… black dots = oil.

Green Map:

… Population and Muslim Factions

ANALYSIS

  1. Core states rule civilizations.
  2. ~500M population necessary for core state.
  3. $1T+ necessary for core state finance of military.
  4. Petro-Currency+Reserve Currency needed to finance military needed for Great Power status.
  5. Iran can take entire gulf oil supply by Kuwait and Saudis and already have people in the area.
  6. Together Iran can achieve both core state of islamic civilization and dominate the region, and obtain Great Power status and heavily influence world affairs.

World cannot tolerate fundamentalist islamic expansionary, militant nuclear iran with control over world oil reserve,and energy prices. Iran is not USA/UK trying to spread rule of law, human rights, science, medicine, tech, commercial prosperity. 10x as bad as China as enemy.

Instead, decimate Iranian military capacity, and economy, pull in competing middle eastern states, and let islamic civilization slowly modernize over generations, and USA can leave. Otherwise another world war and 100’s of millions dead.

This is how grownups see the world.

—“Yeah I will buy this read. Another way to look at it is that it would be irresponsible of the major powers to let radicals who got rich by luck (sitting on oil) have a de facto veto over all world political decisions via nuclear weapons. The ME states never had to fully mature or develop responsible and functional institutions.”—Michael Churchill