Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

China is still buying Iranian oil. I found several reports about it. Here's one:

https://www.ft.com/content/6b944786-9809-11e9-8cfb-30c211dcd229

So, why isn't this big news? I showed you how someone from Bloomberg called the Taliban office in Doha after Trump committed his big gaffe, and since it sounded good, they viralized it. So, why not this? Imagine how big a story it would have been on the NBC Nightly News:

"Our top story tonight: China has been secretly continuing to buy crude oil from Iran in defiance of the U.S. ban, and today, President Trump called an emergency meeting of his National Security Council to discuss U.S. options. Also, an ultimatum has been issued to China ordering them to cease and desist buying from Iran immediately or else suffer severe economic consequences."

So, how come nothing like that? For one, we can't put severe economic consequences on China without putting them on us. We would hurt ourselves more than we would hurt them. But two, there is always an implied threat of military action in U.S. threats, but in the case of China, we're powerless. We can't fight China. We couldn't fight a ground war against Iran. Seriously, we don't have the manpower for it. Shock and awe from the air is the only thing we could do to Iran, and once that got played out, there would be nothing else we could do. But, we can't even do that against China. 

Look: when Putin went into Crimea, why didn't we respond with military force? Why didn't we threaten to? We responded militarily when Saddam Hussein took over Kuwait, so why not when Putin took over Crimea? Of course, there was a big difference. The Kuwaitis didn't want to be taken over by Iraq, but the Crimeans, who are mostly Russians, and who speak Russian, and have always spoken Russian, and I know that because I was there in 2005, and Russian was all they spoke. I threw away my English/Ukrainian dictionary. And I literally mean that I threw in the trash my English/Ukrainian dictionary.  Eez-venee-tee-yeh, no-yen-ee-shoot-show. 

Of course, we didn't care about that, what the Crimeans wanted. The reason we didn't intervene or threaten to intervene is because it was Russia. When the Georgians, with urging from the CIA, went into South Ossetia during the Bejing Olympics, look what happened. Russia moved them out of there like a tsunami.  The U.S. knows its limitations. It's not going to take on the Russians militarily. We prefer to fight Third World countries, where we can prevail. Unless it's Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires.