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It's a negotiating tactic The eventual response will be that even in Civil War, WW2, Spanish flu pandemic, etc elections have gone on normally, and as scheduled. And the election results were largely undisputed. So ... why introduce doubt and risk into the process by going this mail in voting route? If the traditional voting way was good enough then, it’s good enough now. You can’t open negotiation with your final offer. Trump just turned the lockdowns against them. It's hillarious. < eye roll >

Good response. Thumbs up for a good rebuttal. I'm expecting to be banned shortly, so this amuses me. Your rebuttal is above par. Kudos.

@waltz Venezuela is a Socialist Paradise. Venezuela is Socialism done correctly. Please feel free to prove me wrong.

Its is geopolitical strategy for CCP to purchase Venezuelan oil to counter U.S. sanctions. China is playing the long game on return on investment in giving aid to countries that are sanctioned by U.S. Purchasing oil from these countries is one aspect of the incrementally increasing cold war heating up between the CCP government and the U.S. government. August 2019 Venezuela Secures New Chinese Oil Investment The move defies the US embargo’s secondary sanction provisions targeting foreign firms trading with Venezuela. June 12 2020 China Continued Buying Venezuelan Oil Despite U.S. Sanctions Oil shipments from Venezuela to China continued even after the United States tightened the screws on Venezuelan oil exports last August, threatening sanctions on all companies doing business with Nicolas Maduro’s government, Reuters says in a special report, quoting ship-tracking data, PDVSA documents, and oil analysts. June 17 2020 Venezuela Is Still Exporting Oil To China Despite Sanctions Venezuela is still sending oil to China despite stifling U.S. sanctions, Bloomberg has reported, citing shipping data from Kpler.

Significant data, facts, history and background information in this big picture overview of the Three Gorges Dam. Some good research in this assessment. Sample of one of the diagrams is below. Take note of Shanghai on the far right side. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐞 (𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐦) 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 @ronwagn @0R0

In my general view, Russia and Venezuela are still being pressured by the U.S. Meanwhile, China has expanded - not reduced - its interactions with countries that the U.S. is pressuring. Russia and Ukraine Sanctions, Department of the Treasury and China Continued Buying Venezuelan Oil Despite U.S. Sanctions

The Chinese Communist Party is smarter than most U.S. politicians about increasing oil & gas pipeline infrastructure. Sad but true. While U.S. Pipelines Are Under Siege, China Streamlines Its Oil and Gas Network While pipelines in the United States face increasingly hostile legal challenges, China is seeing the importance of a national oil and natural gas pipeline network and is buying pipelines and storage facilities valued at 391.4 billion yuan ($55.9 billion). PipeChina was created in December 2019 to consolidate pipeline assets from the country’s state-owned oil and gas companies, as part of China’s reforms to incentivize domestic exploration and production. ... China has recognized the necessity for an efficient and accessible pipeline network to further its expansion of oil and natural gas and provide its economy with abundant energy. In the United States meanwhile, environmental activists and their political allies - including an advisor to presidential candidate Joe Biden - want to keep fossil fuels in the ground and are using pipeline obstruction as the means to do so, filing legal suits that prompt the halting of pipeline operation and construction and even introducing legislation to block pipeline permits altogether. Abundant and low-cost oil and gas are important to our nation’s recovery from the coronavirus economic lockdowns, but a Biden administration would turn away from those energy sources. Biden has vowed to steer the economy toward intermittent sources of energy and to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline that President Trump granted in 2017. As a result, more companies could follow Dominion and Duke and shy away from building new oil and gas infrastructure. Right now, it appears that China is taking energy very seriously and investing in pipeline infrastructure for the future. In the United States, antipathy toward oil and gas has drowned out the science that shows pipelines to be safe and environmentally sound.

If the new cold war between China and U.S. heats up (which seems likely to me) then China may import all kinds of stuff from Iran, while drastically reducing imports from the U.S. CCP has already been expanding trade with countries that the U.S. sanctions, such as Venezuela and Russia, so adding Iran to CCP's list of favored nations to trade with is not a stretch. If one takes the view that the CCP has been assisting in fomenting unrest in the U.S. with the violent riots (via Alinsky tactics) and the spread of Covid 19, then my comment here might make more sense. Meanwhile, it looks like oil and gas are just another leverage tactic in the cold war that is heating up.

Yes, that is what I was alluding to earlier. The new Cold War between China's CCP and most Western democracies is heating up. Supply of natural resources (including oil and gas) will probably be a key escalation point.

Here is the China Central Asia Gas Pipeline. And a bit more which includes oil pipelines China-Central Asia gas pipeline transports over 19 bln cubic meters in H1 The China-Central Asia Gas Pipeline has delivered over 19 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China in the first half of this year, the PetroChina West Pipeline Company said Thursday. The pipeline runs from the border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, passes through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and links up with China's West-to-East Gas Pipeline in Khorgos of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With a total length of 1,833 km and a designed annual gas transmission capacity of 60 billion cubic meters per year, the pipeline has been in operation for 10 years. It had delivered a total of 316 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China by the end of June, benefiting over 500 million people in China, including residents in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It actually should not be too difficult to add Iranian oil and gas pipeline exports to China. See this link for the full size of the map above. Be aware this map and info is almost 10 years old, but is included in this comment because of the higher quality map and good overview of information. Chinese energy infrastructure in Central Asia IV. Chinese Oil and Gas Pipelines For China, the other half of the infrastructure puzzle is developing overland energy corridors, namely oil and gas pipelines from Iran and the Caspian Region. This project started in the 1997, when Kazakhstan and China agreed to a “project of the century,” with Beijing promising to invest nearly $11 billion in Kazakhstan’s oil infrastructure and pipelines. Development, however, was slow, and it took until 2003 for China to begin making waves in the Kazakh oil sector, when the Chinese National Petroleum Company bought 100% of the shares in the Northern Buzachi fields (Mangistau region) from Chevron-Saudi consortium. And from that point on, the Chinese government has worked steadily to acquire more production companies in the field, as well as joint deal with Kazakh state owned companies like KazMunaiGaz.

China is not single sourcing oil supply from 1 nation. Iran is only one aspect of securing oil supplies for China. Look also at oil & gas supplies to China from Russia and Africa and Venezuela, in addition to Iran. If you read the full article, China is throwing an economic lifeline to Iran's oil industry, in order for Iran to skirt U.S. sanctions. Very similar to what China has done throwing an economic lifeline to Russia for its gas (via pipeline) and to Venezuela for its ultra heavy crude oil. This is a logical strategy for China as it attempts to reduce purchasing oil and gas and LNG and natural resources from countries that favor the U.S. (such as Australia) and instead build economic and military to countries that oppose the U.S. (e.g. Iran, Russia, Venezuela). Add to the mix China's attempts in the last couple decades to slowly convert Africa to become an economic colony to China, as it secures oil and gas and natural resources from very corrupt African leaders. Corrupt African leaders bought and paid for. Notice China's recent pivot away from purchasing Australian natural resources after Australia spoke out against the turmoil in Hong Kong. Oil is being used as an economic lever and economic weapon by China against the U.S. and U.S. allies, while China provides provides oil money cash to failing countries that do not side with the U.S. (provided the failing countries have oil). What China is doing with securing oil and natural resources from countries that oppose the U.S. and its allies is a thumbnail writ large of the current Cold War between China and the U.S.

A secret oil deal between China and Iran at the heart of the One belt One Road project will change the geopolitical balance of power in the Middle East. The manufacturing products created by utilizing cheap Iranian resources will be used to crack the western markets through the China-Iran axis along with unrestricted access to Iranian military bases. As always Indian policymakers have been caught in this changing dynamics leaning heavily on one player after other without a clear vision of its own. Contents 1 The Secret China Iran Deal 2 The 12% Discount 3 One Belt One Road 4 The Military Element 5 Iranian Sanctions & JCPOA 6 Indian Energy Dependence The Secret China Iran Oil Deal At The Heart Of One Belt One Road Project

Generally, I tend to view Pompeo as a hawk, with distrust and suspicion. But he seems pretty spot on with his latest speech this week. An anon gives an OP - ED overview (with dox) regarding Pompeo's latest salvo. You won't see this in mainstream media. Yes, I expect oil & gas prices to drop as a result of Pompeo's speech. https://wearethene.ws/notable/124526 Extensive documention in the link. And Pompeo's full speech is here https://www.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-future/

No, Alex Jones is controlled opposition. Ignore him. Psy Op.

Stay skeptical. https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1245207986080907264