Fox News: The U.S. military's war in the Middle East is actually aimed at disrupting China's oil lifeline!

On March 22, 2026, in the station's flagship in-depth interview program "Life, Liberty & Levin," host Mark Levin stated that if the U.S. could endure short-term economic pain and intervene in the Middle East militarily, it could not only ultimately lower domestic oil prices but also precisely cut off China's energy supply lines, thus forcing Beijing to bow to Washington in key supply chains like rare earths and pharmaceuticals.

Levin's logic is based on an excessive confidence in controlling the Strait of Hormuz. As a chokepoint for global energy transportation, this strait indeed carries about one-fifth of the world's maritime oil flow. Levin envisions that once the U.S. military takes action against key facilities like Iran's Hark Island, it will be able to control the situation. In fact, the development of the situation has turned out to be almost completely opposite to what he envisioned.

The severe turmoil in global supply chains has directly transmitted to the U.S. mainland. Market panic has driven international oil prices soaring, with gas prices at stations on the U.S. East Coast skyrocketing, and prices exceeding $6 or even $8 per gallon are becoming the norm.

The deeper reason, as Brother Dao believes, is that Levin's argument reveals his serious lack of understanding of oil industry fundamentals. He attempts to cite Venezuela's case, claiming that once the U.S. takes control of that country's oil, it can distribute it at will, and extrapolates this to the Middle East. This is not only a logical leap but also reflects ignorance of geological characteristics and refining processes.

China has long established a multi-dimensional energy supply network covering Russia, Saudi Arabia, Africa, and Latin America, and has land pipelines that are unaffected by strait blockades as a strategic trump card. Once Iranian supplies are cut off, China can completely fill the gap by increasing procurement from other regions or drawing on strategic reserves, making the short-term impact fully controllable.

On the contrary, if the U.S. ignites war in the Middle East to "punish China," leading to soaring global oil prices, the real winners will be geopolitical competitors like Russia and Saudi Arabia, while the ones footing the bill will be American consumers. Why think this way? It is actually a form of persecutor delusion, always hoping that a scene in their mind will occur.