Jesús Enrique Rosas

Xi Jinping has spent the last eight weeks publicly refusing to help Trump reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But all of a sudden, something different happened. For the first time, he publicly called for the Strait to stay open. But he didn't dial the White House. Instead, he called Riyadh. Xi called the Saudi Crown Prince, one of Trump's closest partners in the region, and told him the Strait should be open for normal shipping. The same Xi who told the White House "no" in March. The same Beijing that let Iran shut the Strait down for eight weeks while the price of everything went up. What changed is boring and enormous. Over eighty percent of Iran's oil was going to China last year. When Trump's Navy started turning tankers around on April 13, it was not really Iran losing five hundred million dollars a day. It was China losing the cheapest barrel of oil in Asia, one day at a time. Xi is three weeks from hosting Trump in Beijing. May 14. He cannot walk into that summit with his biggest oil supplier in chaos, his refineries running dry, and an American blockade setting the price of everything. So Xi did the thing he never does. He folded, in public, through a middleman who happens to work for Trump. The mainstream media is running "China warns America over Iran" headlines. That is not what a warning sounds like...

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@NycJrgxxx That body language says it all. Rubio hunched, Tucker keeping distance but leaning in. It's like they're in different universes!

@Knesix Passing through the Strait of Hormuz would be more comfortable

@DeniseH_ofDevon Seemed like out of place with that one

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@JamesHu62503639 It's like dusting off that old USB-A 100GB HDD because you're running out of space in your Mac

Spot on.... This tanker has been in cold storage for several years. This is not a strategic move. This is a clear desperation move. Why This Is Significant: * Cold-stacked means the ship was in long-term retirement — minimal crew, systems shut down, engines preserved, not maintained for active service. Reactivating one is complex, expensive, and risky. * After years sitting idle in warm, humid Persian Gulf waters, her tanks are very likely suffering from significant internal corrosion, pitting, contaminants and degraded coatings. * She will almost certainly take on water and require constant power for bilge pumps, inert gas systems, tank heating, and basic operations. * Loading her near full capacity (up to 2 million barrels) on a 30-year-old vessel carries real structural and environmental risks. Iran didn’t choose NASHA because she was the best or safest option. They chose her because they are running out of options. NASHA is essentially a floating band-aid that may buy them 48 hours (at best) of continued production before they are forced to start shutting in wells. Bottom Line: When a country with the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves has to drag a retired 30-year-old cold-stacked tanker out of mothballs to buy two days of breathing room, it is a very loud operational signal: They are running out of time and running out of strategy. The reservoir does not negotiate.

Want to know how desperate is the (fractured!) Iranian regime? A 30-year-old Iranian supertanker called NASHA, rusting in a yard for years, was dragged out of retirement, towing her to the nearest oil terminal so slowly that one day voyage is taking four days. The reason is Kharg Island, where ninety percent of Iran's oil leaves the country, has run out of storage. There is nowhere left to put the crude. The barrels that used to go to China cannot go anywhere, because of the US' blockade. So the regime is using a 1996 ghost ship as a very slow, very rusty floating warehouse. The government that spent a decade bragging about its Axis of Resistance and its proxies in Lebanon and Yemen and Iraq is today begging a Soviet-era supertanker to please hold oil for a while. The mainstream media spent the week debating whether the ceasefire will hold, and it will. Why? because the regime cannot afford for it to break. Treasury says Iran is losing five hundred million dollars a day. That's why the Iranian president was begging to sit down for negotiations again tomorrow Saturday. The tanker is your clue. Not the spitting threats, not the hostage posts, not the parade, but a rusting ghost ship from 1996 being towed, very slowly, toward a harbor that cannot hold any more oil. That is what a cornered regime looks like...

@tugiep I don't think an old oil tanker is worth a rocket, they were focusing on military targets

@Knesix Interesting analysis. Why didn't the military bomb this tanker earlier? Civilian target?

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Xi Jinping has spent the last eight weeks publicly refusing to help Trump reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But all of a sudden, something different happened. For the first time, he publicly called for the Strait to stay open. But he didn't dial the White House. Instead, he called Riyadh. Xi called the Saudi Crown Prince, one of Trump's closest partners in the region, and told him the Strait should be open for normal shipping. The same Xi who told the White House "no" in March. The same Beijing that let Iran shut the Strait down for eight weeks while the price of everything went up. What changed is boring and enormous. Over eighty percent of Iran's oil was going to China last year. When Trump's Navy started turning tankers around on April 13, it was not really Iran losing five hundred million dollars a day. It was China losing the cheapest barrel of oil in Asia, one day at a time. Xi is three weeks from hosting Trump in Beijing. May 14. He cannot walk into that summit with his biggest oil supplier in chaos, his refineries running dry, and an American blockade setting the price of everything. So Xi did the thing he never does. He folded, in public, through a middleman who happens to work for Trump. The mainstream media is running "China warns America over Iran" headlines. That is not what a warning sounds like...

Xi Just BEGGED Trump to OPEN the Strait of Hormuz

For eight weeks, Trump has been strangling Iran's economy. The US Navy has turned back thirty one tankers since April 13. The blockade is costing Iran roughly five hundred million dollars a *day*. The IRGC took over the civilian government because at this point, it is the only card they have left. The mainstream media spent the morning explaining that Trump has gone too far. That he has broken the global economy. That China is going to retaliate. That the allies are furious. That Beijing is preparing to push back hard against American "piracy" in the Gulf. On Monday, Xi Jinping picked up the phone and called the Saudi Crown Prince. He told Trump's closest partner in the region that the Strait of Hormuz should stay open for normal shipping. First time he has ever said it. Xi spent eight weeks refusing to help Trump reopen the Strait. Friendly reminder that over eighty percent of Iran's oil was going to China last year. Every day the blockade holds, Chinese refineries lose money, and Xi gets closer to hosting Trump in Beijing with his biggest oil source on fire. Trump did not just corner Iran. He cornered Iran and China at the same time, and made Xi route the white flag through Saudi Arabia. May 14 is when Trump lands in Beijing. Watch what happens to the Iranian missile stockpile between now and then.

Two different things happening: "Strait open" means normal shipping can transit. Helps Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Iraq, which is what China actually imports from. The US blockade is specifically on Iranian cargo, and it keeps running regardless. Thirty-one Iranian ships turned around since April 13. So Xi is asking for everyone else to get paid. Not Iran. Beijing has accepted its client state loses the oil revenue for the duration.

@Knesix so who will control the shipping ? And, presently, we do not want Iran to get the funds from sales

The SPLC scandal is WORSE than I thought. The organization that has been America's 'certified referee' on who counts as a Nazi for forty years, was caught directly financing white supremacist groups: