Richard Goldberg

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | January 31st, 2026: American Firepower Gathers at Iran’s Doorstep & The Cost of Putin’s War · 31 Jan 2026 podcast

So you can understand why access to the natural resources, access to the oil, a foothold into Asia, Europe, Middle East, everywhere through Iran,

is really interesting to them, future military port access potentially in the Gulf.

But also the fact that you have this middling power that uses asymmetric tools to threaten the United States to keep those sea lanes open for them while they still develop a more advanced blue water Navy makes a lot of sense strategically.

And I would think from their perspective,

Venezuela just fell.

That was both an energy resource, but more importantly, a Belt and Road initiative in our hemisphere resource and the future military platform potential.

If Iran falls out of their sphere, that's two major setbacks for the CCP and on the oil side, really, really, really dangerous for their future.

There's rument.

There's rument, I will tell you.

We have seen some, you know, these flight trackers.

Everybody's into the OSINT flight trackers, right?

Everybody's got one.

Oh, I just saw a flight take off.

Oh, I just saw a Chinese flight.

You know, what's going on?

And there were some flights that came in.

Traditionally, it would be IRGC-related that flew in from China right when Iranian airspace was originally shut down when we thought the president was going to launch the strikes, but then seemed to have delayed.

We don't know what are on some of these cargo flights that come in from China.

They could be military assets.

The rumint, of course, is that for months since the 12-day war last summer, the Chinese have been negotiating to provide their own potential air defense augmentation, anti-ship missiles, hypersonics, things of that nature.

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