If I were Iran, I would want to have nuclear capabilities too. They’re surrounded by almost five billion people with a craven lust for oil.
China and India alone each have roughly over a billion people, a growing economy and an exponentially increasing appetite for oil. The only thing between them and Iran is Afghanistan and Pakistan.
China has a standing army of 5 million soldiers, 1.5 million of whom are paramilitary. India has 5 million soldiers under arms and 1.3 million paramilitary troops. The only thing in their way is the U.S. and our 2 million soldiers (spread around the globe) and 12,000 U.S. paramilitary troops.
China and India combined have more paramilitary troops than the entire U.S. military. Considering only one in nine U.S. troops in (Iraq) or Afghanistan ever leaves their bases, our actual strength is more like 200,000 combat arms versus 10 million combat arms in China and India.
The U.S. is winding down the second of two exhausting wars. Our military is depleted and our military hardware is one flat tire away from the junk yard. Our treasury is out of money and – guess what? – we would have to borrow from China to fight any new wars.
America is no threat whatsoever to either China or India.
The only thing Iran has that could keep China and India from their massive oil reserves is the threat of a nuclear weapon. Hell, the whole Middle East is wide open to China’s and India’s crude oil craving.
Everybody from Saudi Arabia to Kuwait to Iraq would breathe a little easier if they mutually had a nuclear umbrella in place.
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