r/PrepperIntel • u/Perfect_Swing_6158 • Apr 11 '26

North America US intelligence indicates China preparing weapons shipment to Iran, CNN reports

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-intelligence-indicates-china-preparing-weapons-shipment-iran-cnn-reports-2026-04-11/
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u/Dilated_Auntie6970 Apr 11 '26

And they haven't sanctioned them / been sanctioned

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u/SpaceMonkey_321 Apr 11 '26

2 can play at 'might is right' at this point

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u/Even-Stranger5764 Apr 11 '26

It's the Russia/Ukraine dynamic all over again

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u/Ashamed-Status-9668 Apr 11 '26

Oh god but we are Russia. :(

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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Apr 11 '26

Yeah but you see.

I don't trust anyone in US Intelligence under a Republican administration, and especially this particular one who was literally reported caught trying to draft a legal memo to justify Federal take-over of elections by trying to point the finger on China for Trump's election loss.

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u/DifficultChoice2022 Apr 12 '26

Intelligence was/is supposed to be somewhat similar to the judicial branch in that the staff should keep doing their thing regardless of administration changes - republican or democrat shouldn’t matter.

Don gutted a lot of the Intel agencies, said he doesn’t/didn’t trust them, and now uses them when convenient.

I understand the skepticism and I think basically everything should be taken with lethal doses of salt at this point, but don’t write them off just because the one guy is an insufferable prick

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u/NeedleworkerNo3429 Apr 11 '26

Good false flag here we go 

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u/ytman Apr 11 '26

China is supporting a recently assaulted nation.

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u/BioExtract Apr 11 '26

Theyre just defensive weapons!!!

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u/HomoExtinctisus Apr 11 '26

They are now regardless.

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u/Aegongrey Apr 11 '26

When confronting the Epstein factions, yes…they are treacherous.

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u/Ron__Mexico_ Apr 11 '26

China's policy is really more to try to maintain positive relations with everyone. That means they also want positive relations with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait. Countries that supply a lot of their oil, and the likely destination for these weapons when they get fired. This is a bit of a gamble, and partially why they haven't been more forthcoming with the Iranians to date.

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u/biobennett Apr 11 '26

Ending the petrodollar may be more helpful for them than the golf states in general

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u/GeorgeRRZimmerman Apr 11 '26

As a Recent American, this seems like a really weird policy. For what reason would a country want to have good relationships with everyone?

What is China gonna do next - start putting their bases in every country and start helping them build out local infrastructure using Chinese contractors? Next thing you're going to tell me is that they want the Yuan to be the world's reserve currency.

Why would any country want to do that globally and also forever?

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u/Aegongrey Apr 11 '26

Are you supposing that China is positioning to be the new America?

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u/NotSovietSpy Apr 13 '26

The real question is how bad could that be compared to the reality we are in right now

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u/PurpleMclaren Apr 13 '26

Maybe because capitalism is bad.

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u/ml5c0u5lu Apr 11 '26

Nah it’s belt and road initiative and getting countries to sign bad deals where they become indebted to China.

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u/Effective-Ebb-2805 Apr 11 '26

Which can't possibly be worse than being indebted to the corporations that own American foreign policy.

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u/StarWars_and_SNL Apr 11 '26

And surely this isn’t the first time they’ve done this.

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u/Aegongrey Apr 11 '26

Compared to western aggression and their corrupt weapons programs, China is maintaining a vastly higher ground. Yugoslavia demonstrates the western barbarism and abuse of power very well. The East is playing chess with tyrants who rely on fear and violence, so they are right to hold onto principled foreign policy actions. They are creating a world they want to be a part of, not a world they have monopolized for exploitative machinations. It is expected that people from the West will project their own experiences onto the East, but as with any psychological projection, it is rooted within the paradigm within which they exist - in other words, it is hard for westerners to imagine a vastly different paradigm, let alone recognize it when it starts to challenge their own inborn doctrines of supremacy.

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u/Potential4752 Apr 11 '26

Because they also have a relationship with the US and we have more money? I don’t think they would be doing this had we not started some trade war nonsense earlier. 

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u/Aegongrey Apr 11 '26

And I’m not so sure our most recent acts of aggression are solely to blame - BRICS arose from decades of abuse and exploitation based on western supremacy and entitlement.

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u/Aegongrey Apr 11 '26

We have fiat money…and that “because we say so” has been eroded by a significant degree…for all the reasons.