“China’s single greatest vulnerability is the American Navy’s ability to interdict its energy imports,” but now 90% “of Iran’s crude oil exports go to China, processed through a network of Chinese refineries that operate beyond the reach of American sanctions enforcement.” The Nazi hatred of the Jews, per Historian Yehuda Bauer, was “totally anti-pragmatic, anti-modern, anti-capitalistic, anti-cost-effective”; Commentary’s Seth Mandel adds that the “ayatollahs in Iran were similarly beset with, and blinded by, a self-defeating obsession with the Jews.” Their single-minded focus on “nuclear capability” so as to “encircle the Jewish state in a ‘ring of fire’ ” led to the sanctions regime that “brought inflation” and a “loss of access to the international banking system.”
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2026-03-04 23:21:12
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