cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47150225
May 7, 2026
Iran can withstand the US naval blockade against it for three or four more months before facing severe economic hardship, the CIA told the Trump administration this week, according to a report by The Washington Post on Thursday.
The report also said the CIA has found that Tehran retains “significant ballistic missile capabilities” …
The CIA report flies in the face of public statements by the Trump administration, which has claimed that the vast majority of Iran’s drone and missile capabilities have been destroyed.
The US has said that Iran is running out of storage space for its oil…
Analysts have told MEE that Iran has “weeks” of storage space left.
Since they’re almost certainly the next one’s to reach that status, it absolutelly makes sense for at least China to accelerate the fall of the current World-level Empire if they can do it with little or no negative impact for themselves.
Having a decaying America bleed itself and the goodwil of its allies for years against the prickly wall which is Iran is an optimal outcome for China.
Russia, I doubt it, mainly because Russia has no chance in hell of becoming an Imperial power, plus having a military whose capacities were seriously overestimated being bled by an adversary they seriously underestimated as happening to America in Iran, is what has been happening to Russia in Ukraine.