Yemen rebels and Iraq rebels are now battling with Iran in the Mideast.
East-West Pipeline Hit by Iraq
Grok Translation
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s strongest condemnation of the targeting of the East-West Pipeline in the (Riyadh and Medina) regions by several drones originating from Iraq.
The attack resulted in human casualties and some damage that is currently being addressed.
The Kingdom clarifies that, based on a request from His Excellency the Prime Minister of Iraq to give the sisterly Iraqi government the opportunity to take the necessary measures to prevent attacks originating from Iraqi territory against the Kingdom and neighboring countries, the Kingdom has chosen not to respond at this stage and to support the efforts of the Iraqi government.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms that it reserves its right to take all measures necessary to protect its sovereignty, security, facilities, citizens, and residents.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
11 September 2026 / 29 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1448 AH
Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Pipeline That Was a Crucial Hormuz Bypass
The Wall Street Journal reports Saudi Arabia Shuts Down Pipeline That Was a Crucial Hormuz Bypass
Saudi Arabia shut down a crucial pipeline that allowed the kingdom to continue exporting crude oil after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, saying it had been attacked multiple times as fighting across the Middle East flared.
The East-West pipeline can carry up to 7 million barrels of crude from Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing heartland on the Persian Gulf to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea. From there, the Saudis had been able to ship oil to customers across the world, alleviating the squeeze on global oil supplies and keep crude prices in check.
A senior Saudi official familiar with the matter said the attacks originated from Iraq on Thursday, where Iran-backed militias have repeatedly targeted the kingdom’s infrastructure. The kingdom’s Energy Ministry said the attacks caused injuries and led the kingdom to shut down the pipeline, but didn’t specify who targeted it.
NASA satellites that track wildfires detected possible blazes overnight into Friday along the East-West pipeline south of Medina. The locations over the past month haven’t shown high heat readings there.
The Houthi advances and any significant damage to the East-West pipeline could boost oil prices toward $120 a barrel, though the fallout will depend on the extent of damage, said Hamad Hussain, an economist at Capital Economics.
“For as long as the conflict drags on, the risks to energy supplies and prices will persist,” Hussain said.
The pipeline strike tightens the squeeze Saudi Arabia faces on both of its main export corridors. The Iran conflict has constrained shipments through Hormuz, while the Houthis have intensified attacks on energy infrastructure and Saudi Red Sea shipping.
It isn’t the first time the East-West pipeline has been pulled into the conflict that began when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February.
Attacks earlier this year damaged a pumping station and reduced the line’s capacity by about 700,000 barrels a day. The country restored the pipeline to its full capacity within days. Thursday’s attacks targeted several pumping stations, the Saudi official said.
Robin Mills, chief executive of Dubai-based consulting firm Qamar Energy, said that he expects Saudi Arabia to repair any damage relatively quickly but that there is the risk of repeat attacks.
“So while this doesn’t end the East-West bypass, it does put it under additional strain, combined with the threat to shipping in the Red Sea,” Mills said.
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Also the east-west Saudi pipeline rumored hit, no mainstream reports yet.
It took 12 hours of so before mainstream media confirmed the East-West Saudi pipeline hit.
WTI oil fell on the confirmation from over $104 back to $100. But it is still up $8 from two days ago.
The pipeline is clearly vulnerable.
The message from Iran to the US is easy to see “If you stop our oil, we will stop all the oil bypasses.”
$50 to fill up my 4 banger last nite. Mite pull my Harley off the market. Then I can get ran over by frustrated and distracted drivers.
One huge problem here is that the Saudi military is “parade pretty” with zero combat capabilities.
I was always amazed in the last few months of people talking up these pipelines as a “solution” that would “make the Strait of Hormuz irrelevant”. As if it takes a genius to realize that pipelines are easier to bomb and blow up than moving ships….
Pipelines should be underground but that is a lot more expensive.
Shows what a cakewalk it was for them when a fighter is wearing what we’d call a dress, and flip-flops!
The resistance of a 1-legged salamander at best.
lt looks like Iran just opend a second front. That’s a major problem the Trump should have been prepared for. Maybe he should have got second opinion before starting this unwinable war. Hitting piplines just became a third front.
He has to go or we are doomed.
democracy works old sport. the amerikan people have been voting for never ending wars for the past half century, plus.
This is a fascinating rapid exposure of vulnerabilities, fragilities, and complacent delusions. The Saudis are the kings of this, unfolding on their doorstep. But we are in line somewhere. Lots of dominoes can tumble in many directions.
My using the word “fascinating” is itself an indulgence of the conceit that this bell doesn’t toll for me. But supply chains will bring it right here, as a first tremor. Our resiliency and vulnerabilities are about to be stress-tested.
the 50 state solution is what the future holds for pax dumbfuckistan. when empires bust, most often their old federalized states go their own way. see ussr and spanish and british………empires. look at old maps and globes.
Oh, it tolls for thee.
Eh not really. Maybe some. Politicians are able to wage war because a majority of average Americans are not affected.
We have a voluntary military. Limits the taking of sons a daughters off to war protest
Use of tech keeps military causalities down.
Pay later with national debt so voters dont feel the finical pain as quick.
Every country has their way.
China its trade back door bribing. Russia its cyber ops and low grade occupation. The us sells it to the people as spreading democracy. When really most times its for corporate interest.
I think were moving to a time where very wealthy are pulling strings on both sides issues to profit.
Complex issue.
totally agree. but we are unique. a worldwide imperial warmongering power. but also a democracy. our people love it and keep voting for this for many decades. china and russia and most past powers didn’t give the peasants and middlebrows a voice in the matter. democracy works. we elect ourselves. since ancient greeks and iroquois invented self rule.
Actually foreign policy is almost never democratic in America. The people get no say at all about putting military bases in 85 countries or overthrowing democratic leaders or starting wars all over the globe. Yes, we can vote different Uniparty leaders into office in place of the politicians who supported the war, but it is pretty clear they will continue to do the same thing. Every modern President has committed war crimes while in office, but none is ever held accountable.
“Maybe he should have got second opinion before starting this unwinable war”
Word is that every one of his military leaders other than Hegseth advised against it. It didn’t matter, Netanyahu told him he needed to do it.
What perfect irony that this tough guy bully TV self-proclaimed business baron (serial bankrupt) should be hoisted to the position for his stupid bluster to finally be chin-checked, stress-tested, by a bunch of people he openly disdains. What perfect cause and effect that we should eat the results of all this overconfident blather, in war and trade.
I have said it here before, Trump would keep probing until be found something he could not BS his way through. It is his nature and destiny, and now ours, because we clasped this snake to our bosom. For no better reason than, this country is a big noisy bar full of beer-swilling, cheering football idiots, thrilled to outsource whatever dwindling shreds of brains are left.
I believe Netanyahu said “bitch…”
We are a representative Republic. We elect people to make decisions for the masses. Vote differently if you are not happy with the leadership.
Or perhaps you can’t think clearly because the air is a bit thin in Denver?
in the late 1990s we had read the white papers coming out of the bush crime family think tank, the project for the new amerikan century. we knew they wanted a new pearl harbor and to attack saddam for his oil. after the east african us embassy bombings in summer of 1998, it was clear a closer attack was inevitable. so by the morning of 2001 in september twenty five years ago, i told my nephew and family, it was christmas morning for the bush crime family and the MICC and wall street. now with Persia war going on full bore. the one that Ike started in 1953, is there anyone alive that is dumb enough to not understand, CUI BONO “to who’s benefit” this is about. the useful idiots we call israel are just that. i imagine the same folks that believed in WMD in iraq are just as confused a quarter of century later.
This can all turn to the good if the world now directs more resources into working on moving the fusion development timeline ahead faster. That will reduce the need for oil and provide all the power necessary at low cost for AI datacenters and EV cars.
And it requires bombing no one. So, +1.
Is the bombing of children in other countries beginning to bore you?
She probably just wants fusion as a way to free up more fuel for rockets that travel long distances and then blow up children
The US doesn’t use oil for electricity production.
We use oil products, including natural gas.
Which we produce plenty of. Solar, wind and battery could be done tomorrow without any new inventions and costly plants.
Don’t know enough about fusion to agree or not, but I will take you at your word, as I assume the research has been done. Good work, and I agree!
This could also bring the long awaiting support from Countries taking heat and damage from Iran as well. I have wondered why it took so long, but if they come o with 100% support, we will do so in exchange I am sure. That could be game, set match!
Thank you, Pollyanna. The Saudi pipelines salvation just collapsed, literally, so let’s adopt some new pie in the sky repositioned goal posts. Guys like Musk love guys like you.
First: why, then, are we mired in this silly little war? Doesn’t that say our leadership is failing, on that account alone, to allocate resources anywhere near wisely? That our real-world suffering today is misplaced? That al the shifting stories throw at us weekly are blather?
My parallel would be, back in the mid-40s, the wonder tech, the vengeance weapons that were going to save the day, for you-know-who. Turns out the tech was pretty spectacular, giving us such wonders as ICBMs and Elon Musk’s space junk today (/s), but the cards didn’t fall right for their original creators.
So, if the house doesn’t collapse in the next 5 years, just maybe the “right people” will end up cashing in on these technologies. Whether you and I belong in that club is yet another can of worms. But the link to this here mess is incredibly speculative.
Physics is great until it work against you. In 2026, after around 44 million Popular Mechanics articles on the wonderful potential of fusion, they still don’t a material that will work in a commercial application. Which means, there is a pretty good possibility they never will.
“Saudi Arabia has formally CONFIRMED that the strikes on the East West Pipeline originated from IRAQ, not Yemen.”
LMAO! They are only saying that in order to be able to say this:
“We have chosen not to respond at this stage to attacks launched from Iraqi territory, following a request from Iraq’s prime minister to allow his government to take measures to prevent further attacks against the Kingdom and neighboring countries.”
Just like they did after the other big attack on July 27th on their oil installations. AnsarAllah claimed it, the (weaker) Iraqi Shias denied being responsible and yet the Saudi insisted it was the Iraqis and sent a few missiles their way.
At this point the Saudis are beginning to understand what a huge mistake they made by attacking AnsarAllah and especially by hitting heavily their civilian targets (just like the Anglo-Zionists against Iran)…
I have been saying for years that the NATO – Russia war in Ukraine proved that against a peer adversary NATO is a paper tiger and NATO without the US is a wet paper tiger and people laughed at me.
I wrote here in January 2025 at the start of the Russia – US negotiations where everybody was sure that the NATO – Russia war was going to end with some sort of agreement (with most being sure that it would be an “ugly agreement” which would leave everybody unhappy) that whatever negotiations were going on between Russia and the US were not really about Ukraine if not just as a part of the bigger picture and the war would NOT end through negotiations but with the defeat and capitulation of Clown World’s proxy and by extension of Clown World itself and people laughed at me.
I wrote here literally on day 1 that Operation Epstein Fury (where the US went to war openly and directly without the “protection” and the “excuses” provided by proxies) was going to be the USA’s FAFO moment and people laughed at me.
How many are still laughing..?
The fat lady hasn’t even come out on stage yet. Stop stroking yourself in the hopes of the happy ending you look forward to.
Just 2 days ago I showed you here that I could confirm the AnsarAllah’s attack on the Saudi pipeline which were admitted by your trusted Western MSM more than a full day later and while they have been very slowly adding details to the story and you were speculating on what the smoke cloud could really mean I already gave all the details 2 days ago. I was the second poster on Mish’s “Houthis Seize Key Red Sea Port in Major Victory for Iranian Ally” and I taught you that:
The East-West Saudi pipeline was indeed hit, we have satellite photos (from Western sources). That’s 7 million bpd.
What were the American morons saying about Hormuz not being relevant in 2 years thanks to pipelines bypassing it..? If the pipelines (AND THE PRODUCTION SITES) are and will OBVIOUSLY remain within range of Iran and AnsarAllah how can they make the Hormuz Strait irrelevant?!? How are people even entertaining this retarded idea??
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There is a 100 km long heavy smoke cloud along the route of the pipeline, and around it there is only desert, and NASA’s FIRMS has detected multiple record-high heat “anomalies” and a massive fire along the Saudi pipeline… It seems it has been hit in 8 different places and a pumping station has been very heavily damaged and possibly destroyed at location 23.95909, 40.05338.
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The “official government of Yemen” are a bunch of disunited tribal mercenaries paid by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the US and, just like the “official government of Afghanistan”, when attacked by the real patriots (as it happened in the last 48h in Yemen where AnsarAllah liberated 2 strategic cities and 2 strategic islands) suffered heavy military defeats since those mercenaries, in it only for the money, abandoned their expensive American military hardware and fled or surrendered in the thousands and the local population welcomed and cheered for the liberators (the ones that YOU call terrorists). Scenes that you will obviously never see on the Orwellian Western MSM which is your only source of “information”…
And what’s really funny is that the “official government of Yemen” ‘s 2 main factions, the PLC paid by the Saudis and the STC paid by the Emiratis are now even clashing among themselves! The PLC mercenaries were retreating towards Aden, which is occupied by the STC mercenaries, and the Emiratis, fearful of losing control of the nominal capital (and in almost open confrontation with the Saudis since a while on lots of other issues too), ordered their mercenarie to not allow the PLC in! LMAO
A few other facts that brainwashed ignorant fools like you surely do not know:
At what point does it occurs to your little brainwashed, misinformed and malinformed head that maybe I have data and know facts that you don’t and I do not “hope” for an ending but I KNOW what the ending will be..?
And yes, it will be an ending that I like; but it won’t be happy.
Perhaps it is compassion and understanding that is needed here. Some people don’t have the ability to use logic and reason. It was not the fault of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz that he didn’t have a brain.
“Perhaps it is compassion and understanding that is needed here.Some people don’t have the ability to use logic and reason.”
Not until these people are not allowed anymore to vote and to fuck everybody else’s lives.
The very first thing we should do to start fixing our problems is to take away the right to vote to all women and to men under at least 25 years of age, who don’t have a family WITH CHILDREN, don’t pay taxes, are not natives, have foreign passports, have less than average IQ, have less than normal testosterone levels.
Grandpa’s off his meds again I see! Let’s do that and expand social security for grandpa, I’m sure voters will love it!
You are one of those who have been laughing at me and still laughing notwithstanding the ever clearer and mounting evidence, unable to grasp how hopelessly clueless you have been and still are.
Quite a pathetic sight but, as I said, I am unable to feel “compassion and understanding” towards presumptuous retards like you.
Also, I am not an American so your failing Social Security doesn’t concern me.
I don’t remember your posts back then but I’d have agreed with you. I do recall expressing similar comments on the Ukraine War last year on this blog and people like “Phil” in “Connecticut” would call me a Russian bot. These current developments were evident a long time ago for those with eyes to see and ears to hear but we were called bots and trolls. I’ve gotten used to it. Truth is a function of time.
“I don’t remember your posts back then”
They are really not that hard to find. Search for the first Mish article on the start of Operation Epstein Fury, search for the articles in January 2025 at the start of the US – Russia talks and you will find those comments that I made there, comments which I have been regularly quoting in the comment section of many other revelant subsequent articles. As I will do when appropriate with the post you have just replied to here…
“Truth is a function of time.”
As we say in Italy: Il tempo è galantuomo (Time is a gentleman)…
The list of Paper Tiger Countries is very long. Removing the U.S. from the package, makes them weak and ineffective at best.
This is why they have not stepped up to date, out of fear of retribution. Now that they have been included by their enemies, as a place open to carnage, they are attacking them too.
Now they will face the penalty for disbanding the U.S. when needed, because now they need us. Oh well… heed the warning next time. Maybe we would be there helping.
“The list of Paper Tiger Countries is very long. “
On the contrary the list of paper tiger countries is pretty short because paper tiger doesn’t mean what you think it means.
A weak country is NOT a paper tiger, a weak country portraying itself as a powerful country is.
NATO claims to be the most powerful military alliance of all time and the US claims to be the most powerful superpower with the best military ever.
Both claims have been proven to be utter bullshit. At the very least TODAY.
“Now they will face the penalty for disbanding the U.S. when needed, because now they need us. Oh well… heed the warning next time. Maybe we would be there helping.”
Helping whom to do what?!?
LMAO!
Trump continues to get absolutely destroyed by a tiny nation with tiny affiliated militias in adjacent even tinier nations. Tiny is a theme with Trump
CNNs article https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/middleeast/houthis-capture-mocha-red-sea-strait-intl had one sentence posted twice: “It could also prevent Saudi Arabia from shipping diesel to Europe at a critical moment for the fuel market.”
The AI (Gemini) reply to why timing is critical follows:
“Europe is starved for winter fuel, and Saudi Arabia has the refining capacity to provide it. However, with regional warfare physically closing in on Saudi pipelines and Red Sea shipping lanes, the window for the Kingdom to safely transport this diesel to European buyers is rapidly shutting.”
Maybe Europe should get off their duffs and send some troops and ships to the area to help the USA secure the oil that everyone wants?
I have a better idea. The US can stop bombing Iran, stop sanctioning Iran, stop interfering in their politics, give them their money back, apologize for what we’ve done and promise not to do it again. Europe doesn’t have to do anything at all. All this hatred about Iran is because they support the Palestinians and the Israelis want to finish pushing them off their land. Maybe Israel can rediscover that others have rights too and behave like a responsible member of the world?
I have a better idea. Iran can stop bombing Everyone Else, stop sanctioning Everyone Else, stop interfering in Everyone Elise’s politics, Allow the promised Inspections, apologize for what they have done and promise not to do it again.
Prior to Trump bombing Iran, Iran wasn’t bombing anyone. Prior to Trump being elected, Iran was allowing the promised inspections. What’s the common denominator here?
They were funding their terrorist proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis along with a slew of lesser known terrorists to do the dirty work for them. That is what proxies are for, d’oh.
Imagine if instead of sending their oil profits to these proxies to foment terror on others, the Iranian Regime spent them on their own citizens’. Iran could be a paradise!
None of those groups are “proxies” for Iran, especially Hamas. Hezbullah is fighting to keep Israel from taking over southern lebanon (their homeland), Hamas is funded by Qatar and the Houthis are trying to overthrow the government of Yemen which was installed by the Saudis. While Hezbullah and the Houthis are allied with Iran because they are all Shi’a and are tired of oppression by the Sunnis, they are not proxies, but allies, capable of funding themselves. And again, Hamas has nothing to do with Iran.
Not a better idea.
If the oil could have been secured with troops, wouldn’t Trump have done it months ago? How stupid do you thing He is?
Shouldn’t ask that on here, lol.
Trump, like Obama and Biden fear spilling any American blood on foreign soil.
We should be hiring mercenaries instead until the battle droids are ready to go.
As will they should, especially since none of those foreigners have done anything to us.
EU / Europe has no Navy to spare, and actually require more of one, and can’t afford to lose what little they have. I believe they made an attempt, but the ship broke down before it got there, and turned around…
Steady petroleum fuels = concern number one for Europe for 100 years now. Why else the invasion of the USSR, the battle of Stalingrad? (OK, Ukraine’s grains too.) Pax Americana was the biggest insurance for Europe’s comfort and social generosity. Germany’s green movement could only happen under that umbrella. Deglobalization, especially with the Trump era, shook all this, and Trump’s latest war slapped this old world order in the face. Europe is resurfacing thoughts and scenarios from the 1930s. Is it just racism? The game is more zero sum, yes, but the biggest component of that is steady energy supplies. Parties party like it’s 1939.
“the United Arab Emirates – once a member of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen – withdrew its remaining forces from the country in January, after Saudi Arabia called for them to leave amid a dispute. And Saudi Arabia did not backfill those troop barracks and bases.”
”The Saudi military had been put on high alert three weeks ago, sources told CNN, but they didn’t move key air command personnel into place.”
“There was not one air strike throughout the day yesterday (by Saudi support forces), although there were minute-by-minute updates,” the regional source added. “It’s a Saudi-American f**k up of epic proportions.”
Selected quotes above from
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/12/middleeast/yemen-houthi-saudi-us-blame-intl
There are other amazingly stupid facts revealed. Check it out.
Feels like the Saudi Arabian version of our 9/11.
It is truly amazing how the crap between Israel & Palestine has erupted into a conflagration of the whole Middle East. Israel coercing Trump into bombing Iran fueled the rest of the expanding wars. What a friggin’ disaster. Trump should have cut his losses on March 1 by pulling all US military out of the Middle East. He’s trapped now and his ego won’t allow him to admit he made a colossal mistake.
IMO the truth is worse than this. Am confident he’s a willing actor, supporting the plan. The truth is likely that this chaos is planned, not accidental.
Why do I believe that? Read “Which Path to Persia?” or follow Brian Berletic on odysee.
You are a fool. No one coerces Trump to do anything. Try for a better explanation next time.
Crisis, whatever its origin, uncovers all kinds of fissures in all directions.
CNN Arabic states only one pumping station is confirmed damaged badly, the one at Al Mesba’ah:
https://arabic.cnn.com/middle-east/article/2026/09/11/saudi-arabian-oil-pipeline-system-hit-by-projectiles-triggering-fires
(The other fires flagged by satellites colocalise with known flare pits running in emergency mode. A smaller fire was confirmed at another pumping station.)
This report states that pumping stations can be repaired fast, unlike the “trunk line”:
Seizeing Bab al-Mandeb seems more consequential for the Saudis than the attack on the pipeline
Pumping stations can be destroyed faster than they can be repaired. The hooties have all kinds of fun remote control toys .
And the Houthis are smart!
If the Saudis want to sell more oil, they will have to stomp down the Houthis and Iran allies. With their wealth they can hire good mercenaries I would expect. Overall, all the new fighting should be drawing the islamic world back to it’s most natural state of endless war between it’s own tribes.
Saudi Arabia already hired tens of thousands of mercenaries to fight against the Houthis in Yemen.
You are looking at the outcome of that strategy.
the whole headchopper cult that were in syria – hired by ksa.. it worked for usa-israel their, but maybe not here…
Was going to mention…
But they’re holding down Syria. Wonder what they plan next.
Lol! “Stomping” the Houthis is what got them in this mess.
Just ‘cuz you’re rich, don’t make you smart.
The real war starts now.
Saudi Aramco was making more than money than it did before the war started. With the loss of 5 million barrels of oil a day, the moderating force in the gulf – Saudi piggy bank – is getting hit.
Do not be shocked if Egypt gets involved in Yemen with the largest Army in Africa, billions in lost Suez Canal revenue and 1.5 billion in US military aid per year hanging in the balance.
It is shocking that the market and dismissed pundits knew about the pipeline 24hours before the mainstream media even started to cover it. I heard reports last night about heat signatures in area of pipeline. It was just too big to cover up.
Rules in the Iran Conflict –
Don’t mess with downed US pilots.
Don’t touch the US navy boats
Don’t touch the Saudi piggy bank.
Iran is running out of fuel, and any fuel is tainted and ruining vehicles- you lose fuel and you lose civilization.
Either Kharg Island is disappearing or Bandar Abbas. It is about to get hot and real.
I doubt Egypt will touch that mess with a 10 foot pole. Any troops that try to amass in Yemen will have drone and missile fire raining down on them 24/7.
So will their supply lines.
This is what the Yemen Red Sea coast looks like.
Sending Egyptian troops to fight there would be one of the greatest military blunders of our era.
Oceania doesn’t mind blunders paid with foreign serf blood. E.g., Ukraine following NATO’s “counterattack” plan where they threw themselves at the Surovikin Line 3-layer dynamic defense.
You sound absolutely turgid at the prospect.
Okay so why haven’t they done it yet? When’s it starting?
Thanks for the geography info on Yemen.
“War is God’s way of teaching us geography,”
And drinks! Only now do I learn details about the history of Mocha as a location and as a drink.
A pal met the Kalashnikov, who gave her a special edition bottle of Stolichnaya vodka commemorating him and his nifty invention’s contribution to world revolution.
You don’t know who to bring up a Google map old lady?
Had to unhide this, to read it.
Back to hide, lol.
Go Houthis Go!
It is entirely in the Saudis interest to claim that the pipeline attack originated from Iraq.
They did something similar in 2017 or so.
I hope Trump doesn’t invade Iraq now
Trump has evolved into the strictly worst of Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson, with a dollop of Charles Ponzi on top. I’m waiting for his inner Nero to fully roar.
Warren G. Harding doesn’t deserve to be in that group. The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding by Ryan S. Walters. Probably Andrew Johnson doesn’t either. Especially when so many US Presidents were profoundly dishonest and war-loving poltroons. Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, the Bushes, Clintons, Obama, Biden, Trump…all lied their asses off and caused thousands of innocent people to die.
Holy crap!! Now, wouldn’t /that/ be the ultimate case of history repeating as farce!!
I bet they have WMD also! Time to revisit Iraq and straighten the place out again.
Maybe divide it up between Syria, Jordan and Kuwait.
waiting for the Jojo post by saying that this is not a problem and somehow solar power or fusion power or aliens or some shit will make this all better.
On the reality axis however, this is not surprising except maybe for why it took so long. drumpf of course will be unable to admit that things are going from bad to worse and that the forward-looking trajectory is looking potentially catastrophic. My expectation is that he will continue to double down and assert that we just need to get through the election and just elect Republicans bc the Iranian regime is destined to collapse by Nov 4 after the election. Meanwhile we’ll continue down this path of mutual destruction because we are ruled by testosterone (hogsbreath) and gut feeling/sundowners (drumpf himself). Chairman Caine will try to corral their worst instincts but he is a voice of reason in a sea of insanity. On the other side, the Iranians will continue to act schizophrenically as the various factions continue to vie for power. In short, continued quagmire that continues to bleed both sides, with no winner but continued suffering by all.
Not ten hours later and Jojo is conveniently posting about fusion. Obvious trolling at this point but it’s pretty good stuff.
The entire Middle East is a powder keg now thanks to Biden and especially Trump of late. The arrogant leadership we have let Israel go apesh!t on the Palestinians, Trump with colossal stupidity and arrogance let Netanyahu convince him of doing a sneak attack/decapitation “short” war on Iran, and now the 500,000,000 people living in the Middle East are mad as hornets at the Israelis and anyone supporting the Israelis in any way.
I would not be surprised to see any if not all of these: Iraq take Kuwait, Yemen be reunited, House of Saud fall, Jordan prince friendly to Iran take over Jordan, Bahrain leadership fall, basically a whole bunch of the British created middle eastern monarchies fall and this does not bode well long term for Israel’s future although they may gain short term with all of the instability. It’s an open secret the Mecca(Makkah) arrangement is primarily a tool to keep Israel in check to halt their “genocidal “greater Israel” project.
I highly doubt the Paki’s and Turks will actually help the House of Saud against the Houthis unless their own interests are impacted directly because nobody wins if a Sunni vs Shiite regional war kicks off. I still can’t believe the dumb fvck Saudi’s attacked the Houthis especially after watching with a front row seat what Iran did to the US and Israel.
Yes, this is all Biden’s fault. 🤦
There is enough blame for every US administration going back all the way to Truman in regards to the current state of the Middle East
Truman’s Sec. of Defense James Forrestal and JFK both opposed the Israeli aggression. They both were coincidentally assassinated before they could do anything.
Until reading your post, I was going to suggest that maybe it is time to throw the House of Saud overboard. It seems to me that it is getting to be a bit anachronistic. The family has had a pretty good run. I imagine that most members of it will be able to sneak away with at least some cash.
As I understand it, Shia Moslems are more civilized that Sunni Moslems as a general rule. They treat their women better, and in fact have a better arrangement of power between the sexes than we in the West have. They don’t treat their women badly, but they don’t let them take over. (I am open to correction here if someone thinks they do treat their women badly.)
It is interesting to see people who claim to be Semitic (as I take it the Yemenis and Iraqis do) fighting in support of people who claim to be Aryan (the Persians). Usually it’s the Aryans who have to go out and get killed, on behalf of the Semites. In the Ukraine, dead Russians and dead Ukrainians are presumably both good news to Zelensky, since he is Jewish – and not a nice sort of Jew at all.
I don’t suppose America will really throw Israel overboard too, but maybe, Trump being a smart man, he will arrange a compromise whereby the Israelis stop stealing land. I realize that Palestinians are probably just as murderous as Israelis, so I don’t imagine that Gaza will be given back. Maybe Trump’s project of turning it into a resort area and giving the Gaza natives jobs in tourism and hospitality is the best way out.
Now the pedophile is on about the aryans! You cannot make this shit up!
I’m tempted to spew a few Nazi expressions at you, but I know they were wrong too, just as the people who believed in the “white man’s burden” were. Public oversimplifications are always wrong. You sound like someone who is a real asset to the people in charge.
Of course you’re tempted to spew a few Nazi expressions, you’re a pedophile! Do you think being called an untermench or whatever by a literal pedophile is going to upset me? Here’s a simple fact: you said everyone was jealous of Epstein and then defended raping kids multiple times. I think me and Hitler could probably agree on what to do with you.
So why did wti drop on that news? I would have expected it to rise.
The game is rigged. All of it.
Maybe we aren’t being told the whole story? I don’t have any idea what that is, but the market sometimes knows better than I do.
Markets rarely move in straight lines radar. The pipeline news came at the end of the day on Friday and was disputed by some as overstated. As always, patience is required for reality and fundamentals to take hold.
Whether it’s the continued threats to the 7mbpd Saudi pipeline or the blocking of the Bab El Mandeb strait to Saudi shipments, either way it is another restriction on oil flows at the same time that inventories continue to dwindle.
Pressure is on for higher prices. Once we pass $100 though we begin to get more serious demand destruction.
Thanks for your input, Papa. I wonder though how demand destruction will actually play out since the world depends so much on diesel for survival. Seems like prices could be elevated for a very long time until supply catches up. I could be wrong though, you have a much better understanding on these matters than I do.
I’m guessing your up to about 50-55% cash now? It’s hard for me to resist buying more refineries!
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the Iranian govt is as arrogant and desperate and lawless as the Trump regime.
this is war without frontiers.
Oh really? Have you studied the Iranian government or is your entire opinion formed by Israeli propaganda? Also, who attacked who?
Bonesaw MBS and KSA supported the multipronged assassinations and mass attack on Iran. The theater for this ongoing war (started by people you prefer?) certainly includes all of KSA.
The Houthis are steel tigers, unlike the paper tigers who only attack from 500 km away.
Knocking out the Saudi East-West pipeline again was fully expected. The only surprise was that it took so long to do it.
Of course, the EW pipeline, even if fully rebuilt, is much less effective now anyway with the Bab Al-Mandeb strait closed by the Houthis.
U.S. boots in Saudi now? Saudi deal with Iran/China? I don’t pretend any expertise, but this just seems to shake some things loose.
The Saudis have asked the US to come in and help with the Saudis, but Trump declined. He’s a little busy right now.
Trump is asking for $1 billion before he’ll commit US troops.
Chump change in this shitshow.
I think Phil meant “for Trump himself”. Even so, Trump would probably demand much more. After all, his son-in-law has to eat.
Boots on the ground end up below ground.
It’s not just a “reality TV” war. It’s a real thing. That was the equivalent of a battle, compressed in drone time and compact critical infrastructure. It’s a good thing Hegseth is straight out of central casting.
Literally had a makeup room installed at the pentagon.
Taco is working very hard to go down in history as the nation’s worst, all-time president in every area of his control.
It’s hilarious to think Dwayne Elizondo Camacho’s sister Kamala would, at this point, probably have been better than Don the Turd.
winning!