Ben Shapiro

The goal of the Soviet Union was to infiltrate the Middle East and create geopolitical connections there.

The Chinese are trying to do the same in the Middle East right now.

The problem they are facing is that the most powerful countries in the Middle East, Israel, increasingly the UAE,

Those countries are very strongly allied with the United States.

Saudi is sort of playing at halfsies.

Saudi wants to ally more strongly with the United States.

They're afraid of a Democrat being elected and then going back to bad relations with a Democratic government, sort of like they had under Joe Biden.

And so they've been triangulating with the Chinese.

The bottom line, though, is that the base of operations for China in the Middle East is Iran.

And the fact that the president of the United States is working strongly in order to

hamper the ability of the Iranian government to spread its tentacles across the Middle East.

That is a major move by the president.

It is not just directed at the Iranian government, it is directed at China.

The president is expected to tell China to cut off their support for the Iranian government.

By the way, there's a very easy way for the president to achieve this.

The best way for the president to achieve a Chinese cutoff in support for Iran is to bomb the Iranian oil facilities.

If Iran no longer has energy to offer to China, China's interest in Iran declines markedly.

It declines even more markedly if Iran not only has no oil to export, but they are holding up all the other oil that China needs in order to power its economy.

At that point, does China really, really feel like upholding the Iranian malocracy for the fun of it?

The president has an enormous number of levers that he can pull right there.