Name: US Beta-Testing China Blockade with Attacks on Russian Energy Exports
Uploaded: 2025-12-07T14:34:51+00:00
Duration: 24 min 33 s
Description: "The expanding drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure represent a long-term U.S. strategy aimed at weakening Russia and constraining China’s rise through an emerging, de facto energy blockade.

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"The expanding drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure represent a long-term U.S. strategy aimed at weakening Russia and constraining China’s rise through an emerging, de facto energy blockade."

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NEO - US Beta-Testing China Blockade with Attacks on Russian Energy Exports (Dec. 6, 2025):
https://journal-neo.su/2025/12/06/us-beta-testing-china-blockade-with-attacks-on-russian-energy-exports/
Newsweek - Russia-Linked Tanker Attacked Off African Coast: What We Know (Dec. 1, 2025):
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-linked-tanker-attacked-african-coast-what-know-11134335
Guardian - Ukrainian naval drones strike two Russian oil tankers in Black Sea (Nov. 29, 2025):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/ukrainian-naval-drones-strike-two-russian-oil-tankers-in-black-sea
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https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf
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https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review
Naval News - Taiwan’s New Naval Drones Could Strike Any Chinese Invasion (Aug. 2025):
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/08/taiwans-new-naval-drones-could-strike-any-chinese-invasion/
Reuters - US intelligence helps Ukraine target Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports (Oct. 12, 2025):
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-intelligence-helps-ukraine-target-russian-energy-infrastructure-ft-reports-2025-10-12/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html
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https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-to-urge-russia-shadow-fleet-crackdown/
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j1gynjddo
BBC - How US Marines are being reshaped for China threat (2023):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64294915
DoD - Opening Remarks by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Feb. 2025):
https://www.war.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/