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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Why Trump wants to hit Iran?
Because Iran is becoming Eurasia's logistics hub — and a new documentary by Pepe Escobar and Press TV shows exactly why that terrifies Washington.

The First and Only documentary in English on the Russia-Iran-India corridor (linking 3 BRICS), filmed last May in Iran, from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
The Empire of Chaos simply cannot allow the corridor to go through.

Timeline:
(00:00) Iran as a historic and modern crossroads of global trade
(05:28) The North–South Corridor: Russia–Iran–India axis explained
(12:02) Caspian ports, rail gaps & the Rasht–Astara missing link
(20:50) Competing routes & China–Pakistan corridor comparison
(30:26) Bandar Abbas, Hormuz & maritime power
(37:35) Chabahar: Deep-water gateway & Gwadar comparison
(49:42) From geopolitics to geoeconomics

Source: Geopolitical Economy Report youtube

Description:
The war on Iran is part of a larger attempt by the US empire to reverse the decline of Western hegemony and recolonize the Global South. After invading Venezuela, Donald Trump wants to "take" Cuba, Greenland, and Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel is annexing the West Bank and colonizing southern Lebanon. Ben Norton explains the imperialist plan.

Topics
0:00 Geopolitical context of Iran war
0:37 (CLIP) Trump vows to 'enlarge' USA
0:56 Plans to expand US empire
1:21 Colonial Donroe Doctrine
2:13 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil
2:32 US military attacks Latin America
3:17 Lula: "They want to colonize us again"
3:51 US dominance declines, China rises
4:59 Trump threatens BRICS
6:25 Plans to revive Western colonialism
7:19 (CLIP) Marco Rubio praises colonialism
8:32 Marco Rubio
9:13 US oil blockade of Cuba
10:19 (CLIP) Trump hopes to "take Cuba"
10:49 US plan to recolonize Cuba
12:31 (CLIP) Trump on Cuban sugar barons
12:47 Exiled Cuban oligarchs in Florida
13:05 Cuban Revolution
13:48 Miami mafia
14:42 When Cuba was a US colony
15:39 US plans to colonize Greenland
15:53 Critical minerals supply chain
17:03 US attempt to save hegemony
17:45 (CLIP) Trump: USA will "own" Gaza
18:08 Israel is annexing West Bank
18:24 Israel invaded South Lebanon
19:48 Oil and gas in Middle East
20:21 Netanyahu's colonial Iran speech
20:56 (CLIP) Netanyahu on "barbarians"
21:32 (CLIP) Pete Hegseth on "savages"
21:48 Colonial rhetoric
22:25 (CLIP) Trump cites Manifest Destiny
22:45 Colonial propaganda
24:36 Gilded Age redux
26:39 Attempt to reverse decolonization
27:53 Will war backfire on US empire?
29:43 Outro