BEEGE WELBORN HAS A LOT OF COUNTING TO DO: How Snatching Maduro Screws Up Everyone Else’s Plans – Lemme Count the Ways. “China, as I noted in my earlier post, now has a real problem on its road to Taiwan conquest. With the US in control of one of its two sources of oil and the other – Iran – looking as if the China-friendly regime there is not long for this world, Xi may literally not have the gas to go to war.”

At the very least, China has to factor in our increasingly impressive cyber-warfare ability.