

It’s definitely part of their grander geopolitical strategy, else they wouldn’t have hit Iran (twice in the span of a year now). China is a big consumer of Iranian oil IIRC, so crippling their ally and their oil exports is not a bad move, in a vacuum.
I don’t think this is any new PR strategy by the American empire, lol, it’s just that without even the pretense, without some previous narratives that made the average American support death and destruction, this entire scenario is obviously ridiculous and everyone can see it.