Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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um by persuading them to deal with iran that they have no choice but they need to deal with iran and they should give up if you like all these big data centers by amazon and ai centers and should change to a much more simple economy
I mean, I don't think...
I don't think that is the aim.
I think the aim at this point is to construct enough pay to get leverage over the West to get them to understand because it's not just oil and gas.
It is also the precursors for equipment, helium and sulfuric acid and all these things that we need for our supply line.
So if there's a parallel, I would say that the sort of second part of it is a parallel to what we've seen in China.
When Mr. Trump imposed those tariffs, high tariffs, 155 percent, China started saying, well, I'm sorry, we're going to impose restrictions on rare earths.
minerals also until you bring down the tariffs.
And that was achieved by China by using that leverage to bring about a change in the trading system there.
And in a sense, Cuomo's straits gives the opportunity, particularly if the Red Sea is included, where so much of the world's commodities pass.
And, of course, Ansar and the Houthis are quite capable of controlling that in a similar sort of way.
So, yes, it is a change in that direction.
But China, I believe,
is very careful.
I was in China at the end of last year, and I was very much aware that they are cautious because the way they've applied AI in China is not in the way we do it in the West.
I was talking to some of the factory owners, and he said, look, you know, Alistair, at the beginning of this year, I take a typical factory opioid test,
His husband is now 200, one year later.
And he said, all of that is because we apply soft AI, you can call it robotics or automation or automatics or whatever, but we apply soft AI for productivity to get our costs down.
And our costs are falling, manufactured costs are falling by 2%.
And I turned to him and I said, that's terrible because we can never compete with that.
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