Gaston simon

Ministry, international journal for pastors/opinion my own....RT not always endorsement

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@mangekimambi Habari kama hizi huwezi kuona akina Millard na kitenge wanapost

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@MsigwaPeter Leo nimejifunza somo kubwa Sana la upendo Kwa watu wa CHADEMA maana watu wengi wamekupokea Kwa mikono miwili baada kurudi nyumbani sijaona matusi isipokuwa watu wanafurahi kuona unarudi...msigwa watu bado wanakupenda sanaa , mshukuru Sana MUNGU

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@zittokabwe TUNDU LISSU yupo ndani umeshindwa hata kutoa neno ila Iran unaungana nao kwenye kupigania Haki...wewe hufai kuitwa kiongozi

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@VungaEl74 Israel imehusika pakubwa Sana kwenye operation ya kumtafuta huyu rubani inasemekana intelijensia ambayo Israel wameshiriki imesaidia kupatikana haraka Sana ...hii ni Kwa mujibu wa FOX NEWS

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Here’s a clear explanation of why Trump attacked Iran, and why I think the war will end soon.

The war isn't about nuclear weapons. It's not about helping the Iranian people. It’s not about doing Israel’s bidding. And it's not about Iran being a threat to the U.S.

It's about China.

China imports 45-57% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has the capacity to shut it down.

A U.S.-aligned Iran means an Iran that would choke off that strait if there's ever a real power struggle between Washington and Beijing.

And there already is one.

The U.S. and China have been locked in a tariff war for over a year now.

Also remember when China threatened export controls on rare earths, encompassing any company anywhere in the world that uses Chinese rare earths?

Yes, China essentially said that any company that uses their rare earths (China refines 85-90% of the world’s supply) must seek their permission before exporting their products.

This means if a German manufacturer uses rare earths fro China to create chips for American companies, China can block the export of these chips.

That’s how much leverage China has over the U.S., and that’s dangerous, especially if China finally decides to reunify with Taiwan.

So controlling the Strait of Hormuz becomes critical for the U.S.

It's the same reason Trump wants China out of the Panama Canal. The same reason Venezuela matters.

The same reason he's eyeing Greenland, where shipping routes to China pass through melting Arctic ice.

Energy is everything now. The AI arms race is the most important strategic competition on the planet.

Limiting China's access to energy is how the U.S. wins that race, and anyone who believes in freedom and democracy should want America to win.

China is investing heavily in domestic energy, building nuclear reactors, solar farms, wind power. They're leapfrogging the rest of the world.

But they still import the majority of their oil. And a significant chunk of it comes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran was reportedly nearing a deal for supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles from China, which would make it easier for Iran to threaten shipping in the Strait and strike U.S. naval vessels.

That accelerated the timeline.

Trump's comment today about doing in Iran what he did in Venezuela makes perfect sense in this context. He wants influence over who comes next.

A regime that's workable for Washington.

If he succeeds, this would be a massive strategic win for the U.S. and for Trump.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: CNN reported on March 6 that US intelligence suggests China is preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance, spare parts, and missile components. Three people familiar with the matter confirmed the assessment. On the same day, China publicly denied military support and called for ceasefire.

Both statements are true. Neither contradicts the other. Understanding why requires seeing what China is actually doing, which is more consequential than anything either Washington or Beijing is saying.

China imported 1.38 million barrels per day of Iranian crude in 2025. That is ninety percent of Iran’s total oil exports and roughly twelve percent of China’s total imports. Forty five percent of all Chinese oil imports transit the Strait of Hormuz. When the strait closed on March 5 through insurance withdrawal, China did not lose access to Iranian oil alone. It lost access to Saudi, Kuwaiti, Iraqi, Qatari, and Emirati oil flowing through the same chokepoint.

China has three to four months of strategic petroleum reserves. After the buffer, the world’s second largest economy begins rationing energy. The growth that is the CCP’s sole remaining claim to political legitimacy starts to erode. Beijing’s survival calculus is simple: growth is legitimacy.

So China is doing something nobody has done in the modern era. It is negotiating a bilateral safe passage arrangement for Chinese owned vessels through a multilaterally closed waterway. AIS tracking data already shows at least one bulk carrier altering its destination signal to display “CHINA OWNER” while transiting the Omani coastal margin. Reuters confirmed back channel negotiations between Beijing and Tehran on March 5. Bloomberg reported the arrangement taking operational form by March 6.

This is not about oil. This is the proof of concept for post-American maritime hegemony.

For eighty years the United States Navy guaranteed freedom of navigation as a universal public good. What China is building right now is a parallel architecture where access to critical waterways is determined by bilateral commercial relationships rather than universal legal principles. If Chinese vessels transit safely while Japanese, Korean, and European ships cannot, the legal framework governing maritime commerce since 1945 is not being violated. It is being replaced.

The financial assistance and missile components CNN reported are the price of the safe passage deal. China is paying for transit rights with the currency Tehran needs most: components that keep its military functioning. Every spare part extends the war. Every extended week deepens the Hormuz closure. Every deepened closure increases China’s leverage over whoever wants to ship through those waters next.

China is not joining the war. China is pricing it.

And the price is a new maritime order where the ocean’s most critical chokepoints answer to commercial leverage rather than naval force. That order is being born right now in the transponder signals of tankers hugging the Omani coast with Chinese ownership declarations functioning as diplomatic passports through a closed strait.

The era when a ship needed an insurance policy to transit Hormuz is ending. The era when a ship needs a Chinese relationship to transit Hormuz is beginning.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

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@Selengeisidai @HildaNewton21 Aisee umetisha Sana, hakika huwa naongeza uelewa baada ya uchambuzi wako kupitia post zote zinazopostiwa hapa