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Here is the map I used in my most recent video of all of the CURRENT US wars and proxy wars, invasions and occupations related to cutting of China's energy imports from its largest and most important partners including Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.

Click on it to see the whole image.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUhzeKY4hh0

- While the US attack on Iran throttles energy production and exports to China, following the cutting of energy exports from Venezuela to China in a war earlier this year, and years of attacking Russian energy production via Ukraine, US-backed militants in Myanmar are attacking pipelines leading directly into China;

- A US citizen and several Ukrainians were caught bringing in large numbers of combat drones to fight the central Myanmar government and attack key infrastructure across the country including Belt and Road Initiative projects;

- Zooming out from any one of these conflicts reveals a global US war and proxy war as well as a developing global oil blockade against China;

References:

NEO - American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China (Mar. 20, 2026):
https://journal-neo.su/2026/03/20/american-ukrainians-caught-arming-militants-in-myanmar-and-the-us-dirty-war-on-china/
The Indian Express - NIA arrests six Ukrainians, one from US for plotting terror activities in India (Mar. 17, 2026):
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/nia-arrests-six-ukrainians-one-from-us-for-plotting-terror-activities-in-india-10585555/
Reuters - Ukraine seeks release of citizens arrested in India over alleged Myanmar drone activity (Mar. 18, 2026):
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ukraine-seeks-release-citizens-arrested-india-over-alleged-myanmar-drone-2026-03-18/#:~:text=By%20Krishna%20N.,Sign%20up%20here.
CNBC - Who is Matthew VanDyke? NIA arrests US citizen and six Ukrainians for links with anti-India insurgent groups (Mar. 19, 2026):
https://www.cnbctv18.com/india/nia-arrests-us-citizen-matthew-aaron-vandyke-six-ukrainians-anti-india-drone-warfare-training-network-in-myanmar-ws-l-19871344.htm
Newsweek - Meet Matthew VanDyke, Former U.S. POW Training Ukrainians to Fight Russia (Apr. 2022):
https://www.newsweek.com/meet-former-u-s-pow-training-ukrainians-fight-russia-1699373

US-Backed Militants and Opposition in Myanmar

The New Atlas - Myanmar: US-backed Fronts Behind War, Blocking Development - starts at around 1 minute, 30 seconds (2021):
https://youtu.be/7ReeqgDlHmk?si=TIPbp5XRRSVl8Utr&t=91
Wikileaks - THAILAND: ALLEGED USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ALONG THAI BORDER:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05BANGKOK3930_a.html
Wikileaks - SNAPSHOT OF NORTHERN KAREN STATE PROVIDES LITTLE HOPE:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CHIANGMAI32_a.html
Wikileaks - FREE BURMA RANGERS: PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; NOT ARMING INSURGENTS:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07CHIANGMAI188_a.html
Wikileaks - KAREN GROUPS SAY FIGHTING WON'T REACH REFUGEE CAMPS IN THAILAND:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07CHIANGMAI70_a.html
Wikileaks - MILITARY DETENTION OF AMCIT UNDERSCORES SHIFT IN THAI POLICY TOWARD BURMA:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08CHIANGMAI69_a.html
The World - Myanmar Elections: A Changing Country and its Exiled Opponents (2013):
https://web.archive.org/web/20250120151946/https://theworld.org/stories/2013/08/15/myanmar-elections-changing-country-and-its-exiled-opponents
US NED - Burma (Myanmar) (2020):
https://web.archive.org/web/20210314232434/https://www.ned.org/region/asia/burma-2020/
VOA - Myanmar Shadow Civilian Government Opens Office in Washington (2022):
https://www.voanews.com/a/myanmar-shadow-civilian-government-opens-office-in-washington-/6840870.html
NUG “Ministry of Foreign Affairs” - Zin Mar Aung:
https://mofa.nugmyanmar.org/h-e-daw-zin-mar-aung/
US NED - Ms. Zin Mar Aung:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201202195214/https://www.ned.org/fellows/ms-zin-mar-aung/
US State Department - International Women of Courage Award Winners 2012:
https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/gwi/iwoc/2012/bio/index.htm
The New Atlas - Washington's, Not Myanmar's "National Unity Government" (2021):
https://youtu.be/AqoM5JwnQcI?si=sMdbz_sZivTov7Bl


A Maritime Oil Blockade On China

US Naval War College Review - A Maritime Oil Blockade Against China—Tactically Tempting but Strategically Flawed (2018):
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review
NYT - The Separation (Dec. 30, 2025):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html

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NEW ARTICLE: American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China

READ HERE: https://journal-neo.su/2026/03/20/american-ukrainians-caught-arming-militants-in-myanmar-and-the-us-dirty-war-on-china/

"The recent arrest of American and Ukrainian citizens providing these militants with additional training and modern combat drone technology is not just a war against Myanmar’s central government and the peace and stability of the nation and people of Myanmar, but also a war against China and the peace and stability of the entire Asia-Pacific region — even the world."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9BsR3zNfFc

A little More Regarding Joe Kent's "Resignation" ...

Odd neither Kent nor Tucker Carlson talked about Carlson's father's role in the FDD (vice chairman) blamed now by Kent for "Israel" "forcing" the US into war on Iran.

Who thinks it's all a coincidence and not controlled opposition and scapegoating at all?

Source: NYT - Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84 (2025):
https://archive.ph/iIPJG
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC6ZHV4K8FQ

Joe Kent/Tucker Carlson's Highly Publicized Blame-Game: Destructive, Disruptive Wars Require Scapegoats

How are people listening to Joe Kent and his still unapologetic pro-war stance (just not pro-this-particular-war, (supposedly)) and him claiming "Israel" somehow tricked President Trump (who Kent claims is a "fantastic deal maker," eerrr - like with Russia over Ukraine???) and not seeing the game being played here?

This doesn't prove "Israel controls the US."

Someone simply saying something you want to hear doesn't prove it - documented evidence proves it.

Kent even throws out transparent lies anyone could look up and disprove - like claiming think tanks like the FDD represent "pro-Israeli" power over the US administration.

The problem is the FDD and other think tanks/pro-Israeli lobbying like it operate on drastically smaller budgets than arms industry, big-oil, big-pharma-funded think tanks like Brookings, RAND, CSIS and others who actually shape US foreign and domestic policy regardless of who is president.

These are larger corporate-funded think tanks that laid out plans years ago that have since been implemented verbatim (Which Path to Persia - 2009) regardless of the fictions now being used to explain events today by people like Kent.

Kent also falsely claimed that the US was genuinely pursuing a deal with Iran - when I have warned for years any "deal" the US sought to make with Iran was meant to serve - not to prevent war - but as a pretext FOR war - which is literally what happened!

And again - this was laid out in excruciating detail in the 2009 Brookings "Which Path to Persia" paper.

If anything - this further proves the US is using Israel as a proxy - not just to catch Iranian ballistic missiles for 3 weeks in a row now along side America's other regional proxies - but also to be thrown under the bus politically to shift blame away from the US for a US war that is gradually destroying the ENTIRE world economy.

Beware of Kent and those like Tucker Carlson who give him a platform and help deflect blame for US policy while pretending to oppose it.

Anything this popular and highly-publicized is usually done on purpose - just like Trump and "MAGA" itself.

When will people learn?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETaJAQmGDmg

- The US has burned through huge quantities of high-end weapons on Iran it had been stockpiling for war it sought to provoke with China in the Asia-Pacific;

- The US not only likely never had enough weapons for a war with China, but it will be unable to even replace what it has spent on Iran for years to come;

- The US war on Iran is thus likely an attempt to reduce or remove 2 obstacles to US primacy with one war, degrading or toppling Iran and the imposition of a global maritime oil blockade on China at its source (US capture of Venezuela, US strikes on Russian energy production, and now the incremental shutdown of energy exports from the Middle East);

- The US likely hopes it can emerge from the global economic crisis it is creating “stronger” relative to China;

References:

CSIS - Iran War Cost Estimate Update: $11.3 Billion at Day 6, $16.5 Billion at Day 12 (Mar. 13, 2026):
https://www.csis.org/analysis/iran-war-cost-estimate-update-113-billion-day-6-165-billion-day-12#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Department%20of%20Defense,first%20days%20of%20the%20war.
WaPo - Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates (Mar. 9, 2026):
https://archive.ph/VIDXT
Defense One - Shahed drone meets clone in US war on Iran (Feb. 28, 2026):
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2026/02/shahed-drone-meets-clone-us-iran-exchange-strikes/411785/
CNN - The Iran war’s troubling missile math (Mar. 4, 2026):
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/04/politics/missiles-weapons-stockpile-iran-us-war#:~:text=The%20American-made%20THAAD%20mobile,without%20increasing%20production%20to%20match.
Naval War College Review - A Maritime Oil Blockade Against China (2018):
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review
NYT - U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP (1992):
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/us-strategy-plan-calls-for-insuring-no-rivals-develop.html

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- The US is sending a US Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) including the USS Tripoli with 2,500 Marines, F-35 warplanes, V-22 Osprey, and transport helicopters;

- Out of 2,500 Marines, only 1,200 are part of a ground combat element, the rest are spread across air combat elements, command, logistics, and other supporting roles;

- The MEU could participate in the seizure of Kharg Island and other critical facilities, board and seize ships, sink ships, augment US regional airpower with its F-35 warplanes, or augment US regional missile forces with its compliment of HIMARS and ATACMS/PrSM munitions;

- The MEU poses a threat to the shipping of energy to China Iran is reportedly allowing through the Strait of Hormuz specifically because of its anti-shipping capabilities created under the Biden administration specifically for war with China;

References:

USNI - USS Tripoli, 31st MEU Heading to the Middle East (Mar. 13, 2026):
https://news.usni.org/2026/03/13/uss-tripoli-31st-meu-heading-to-the-middle-east
BBC - How US Marines are being reshaped for China threat (2023):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64294915#:~:text=Launched%20in%202020,on%20its%20past.
USMC - MARINE AIR-GROUND TASK FORCES (2022):
https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/AY23%208672%20Org%20of%20the%20USMC%20L2%20MAGTFs%20Reading%20-%20Final_docx.pdf

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🇺🇸/IRAN - US Marines Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Deployed to Middle East

The US deployment of the Tripoli and its support ships provides the following capabilities:

1. Amphibious/helicopter/tilt-rotor landing operations;
2. Anti-shipping operations - both boarding ships and sinking them with anti-ship missiles;
3. F-35 multi-role warplanes;
4. Precision missile fire via HIMARS;

What would the US be looking to do with a primarily anti-shipping force?

1. Perhaps seize Kharg Island by holding the infrastructure itself - forcing Iran to either destroy its primary means of energy export or hope in vain to someday get it back from the US (the US has already conducted shaping operations to do so);

2. Interdict ships by boarding them or by sinking them ensuring Iran's selective passage of the Hormuz Strait becomes an entirely closed strait;

3. Additional F-35 warplanes needed to augment existing airpower in the region as maintenance walls are reached;

4. The use of HIMARS to augment current precision strikes into western Iran;

All additional resources the US brings to the region threaten to extend and escalate its war of aggression on Iran - but also threaten regional and global stability in the process.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsX36_0EicE

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Hamas Demands Iran Stop Striking US Arab Proxies and Why You Shouldn't Be Surprised

▪️BBC calls Iran "key ally," though Iran is an ally to the Palestinian cause, not Hamas itself - Hamas being of the Muslim Brotherhood, a US tool used to encircle and set the stage for this war to begin with;

▪️Hamas' Oct 7, 2023 op into Israel served as pretext for not only Gaza's erasure but for wider war against Iran & its allies;

▪️Iran is striking these Arab nations now because they host US forces & are politically captured by the US;

▪️Hamas is ACTUALLY funded primarily by these US' Arab proxies, especially Qatar - NOT Iran - Qatar hosts the largest US military presence in the region;

▪️I warned about this on Oct 7, 2023, regarding what Hamas really was & what its purpose was actually for and now here we are again;

▪️I say "again" because during the US proxy war on Syria, Hamas actually sided and fought together with US backed terrorists against Syria and its Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah allies;
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhpOuTPf2Y

- The US has been working towards this war on Iran throughout the entire 21st century spanning multiple presidential administrations;

- The region was reshaped by US invasions and the arming of extremists under Bush, the “Arab Spring,” the “Iran Nuclear Deal,” and subsequent additional wars under Obama, the collapse of Syria under Biden, and launching direct war with Iran under Trump;

- The war on Iran constitutes multiple phases of economic, political, covert, and direct military aggression hoping to collapse it just as Iraq was over the course of the 1990s and early 2000s;

- US control over Iran and the Middle East directly serves wider geopolitical objectives regarding the isolation and containment of Russia and especially China;

- Part of the US appearing to "not" have a plan is to avoid talking about how long and costly this war on Iran is and likely will need to be, and the larger more dangerous objective it fits into in regards to Russia and China;

References:

Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
RAND Corporation - Dangerous But Not Omnipotent: Exploring the Reach and Limitations of Iranian Power in the Middle East (2009):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG781.sum.pdf
US DoD - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force Gen. Dan Caine Hold a Press Briefing (Mar. 13, 2026):
https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4434484/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-and-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-air-force-gen-da/
The New Yorker - The Redirection (2007):
https://archive.ph/3ZB70
Politico - The Iranian exile group that played Washington for this moment (Mar. 3, 2026):
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/03/the-iranian-exile-group-that-played-washington-for-this-moment-00808052?utm_content=topic/news&utm_source=flipboard
VOA - US to Remove Iran Group From Terror List (2012):
https://www.voanews.com/a/1512438.html
US State Department - Delisting MEK (2012):
https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/09/198443.htm
NYT - US Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings (2011):
https://archive.ph/cvBTH
US State Department (YouTube) - Secretary Clinton Addresses Youth Movement Summit (Oct. 2009):
https://youtu.be/OcBG7B6sgOk?si=HpFobzP55k5V4Qap
The New Atlas - 2011 - Year of the Dupe (2011):
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-of-dupe.html
Reuters - Israel says its air strikes destroyed most of Syria's strategic weapons stockpiles (Dec. 2024):
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-incursion-into-syria-reaches-25-km-southwest-damascus-security-sources-2024-12-10/


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