Drone Strike Shuts Half of Saudi Production
In case you are new to this story, here is the background: Drone Strikes Shut Down Half of Saudi Arabia Oil Production
Administration and Senatorial hawks are out in force.
As noted a bit ago, US War Hawk Nut Case Senator Graham Responds to Saudi Refinery Attack
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is now in on the act.
No Evidence Drones Originated in Yemen
Another Rush to Judgment
Excuse me for asking, but where the heck is the evidence Iran did this?
I do not rule out Iranian involvement, even though it makes little sense.
Rather, I cannot stand another warmongering rush to judgement accusation with no evidence presented or even discussed.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Pompeo is no stranger to making stuff up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfrhATD4nM0
there’s nothing at all foolish about assessing that the drone aircraft used in the attacks were made in Iran and supplied by Iran
and nothing foolish in thinking that Iran would not have supplied them without knowing how they would be used
Why can’t it be Iran Mish? Their economy is in shambles due to sanctions…ALL Mideast countries and other oil producing countries (US Included) need oil to be at at least $80 per barrel to seek out a profit…even the frackers need $80 per barrel…this type of oil disruption is long overdue…and the blame game is just part of the political process…Iran will benefit just as much as any other oil producing country…
Maybe the crackers did it then 😉
With the help of the CIA 🙂
Saddam had nothing to do with the Saudi oil refinery fire.
?? Do you not no he’s long since dead??
Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11.
Was reading in an oil publication that Iran is supplying ~ 1/3rd of Iraq’s electricity needs via NG & 1,300 megawatts electricity, while Russia’s Rosneft is in the bidding for boosting Iraq’s NG to offset this. I mention b/e WT* was solved in Iraq? And they’re leaning in Iran and everyone but us to get by! A total FUP by us. And they NEED Iran b/e we left their needs short – AND they are not using us to solve things. What a HORRIBLE multi-trillion black hole for us.
Upon overnight reflection, the Iranian crisis isn’t as bad as it appears on the surface…it’s much worse:
To review, Iran became cold war roadkill in 1953 and never recovered. It lurched from the Shah’s police state to the current Mullah’s police state in 1979.
The barrier to doing a deal, any deal, with the temple keepers lies with their Republican Guard corporation. They’re the guys on the bass boats hanging bombs on tankers, etc. They began as a volunteer militia organization and quasi-praetorian guard, but have morphed into a massive corporation now starved for revenue by sanctions.
I believe they now constitute an Iranian shadow government and have begun freelancing, first with bombing, then seizing tankers in the straits, yesterday with coordinated drone attacks…all lashing out like a cornered, wounded animal.
No deal can be done now; it’ll get worse before it gets better. The praetorian guard brought down multiple Roman emperors. I think it’s modern day equivalent is insensibly, (as Gibbons was maddeningly wont to write), dragging the region into general war.
Regardless of exactly who launched the drones and who supplied the drones, this is a 100% predictable outcome from an extended blockade or sanctions that cause a country to starve. Saudi Arabia has had a blockade around Yemen for years and the US with its allies has had sanctions on Iran for years. Does anyone in a decision making position honestly expect there will no nationwide resentment and no military response when a country which views itself as independent is held in an economic chokehold long enough?
Perhaps the people running this scenario should acknowledge that the strategy they are using is antithetical to getting a peaceful outcome and is likely to lead to military escalation. I am not saying the US and Saudi Arabia are villains, but neither are they blameless. To the extent they respond indignantly, Senator Graham and Secretary Pompeo are being hypocrites.
Maybe Saudi did it to themselves? Repay pretty fast @ 150. Who knows. Only thing im sure about is the US drooling for war with Iran it seems. Not a lot of ba backing public wise but since when does that matter? Being near an army base im quit amused with the number of guys serving/retired that call BS on 9-11. Hard to build morale when your own buildings seem to fall down on there own it would appear. One of them told me they all know it’s an inside job and that we are all just cattle and that it’s just a job that you hopefully get through to retirement. What a great country.
” Hard to build morale when your own buildings seem to fall down on there own it would appear.”
The WTC buildings did not fall down on their own. Jetliners were flown into the towers. Huge uncontrolled fires ensued. Both towers fell without warning from within the fire zone.
I suppose you dont know about the 3rd building next to them that wasn’t hit and fell in the same manner? With multiple witnesses hearing demolition charges AND the owner of the building saying they “had to pull it”???? Its called Building 7. Unless you’re being sarcastic.
I know WTC7.
Pull it referred to the firefighting operation, as the NYFD told him that the conditions in the building were dangerous and they didn’t want to risk losing any more firefighters on top of the 343 lost already. It is fraud to claim Silverstein was referring to demoing the building. Silverstein made the pull it comment in public, so he wasn’t trying to hide anything.
WTC7 was hit by debris from a collapsing WTC1, which is why the fires existed in WTC7.
No evidence that Yemen did it?
Let’s see if any evidence of anything will be presented. Otherwise we may as well conclude that Pompeo did it.
The default conclusion is that Saudi Arabia (at least indirectly) did it themselves, by meddling in the affairs of others.
Actually it was an international multi-national NATO coalition with significant participation by France, the UK, Canada and others, including the USA.
Just another gift to America from the “No More Wars” President.
No more wars….. (unless for Israel). Enjoy
This will be interesting to see if Trump takes the bait.
Wouldn’t Iran share some of the blame regardless, Albeit through financially backing the houthis?
Even if Iran is managing to get some stuff and advisors through the blokkade on Yemen, so what. That would simply make them a minor country in the global arms export trade.
The same standard of culpability (involvement, arms transfer) would make the US culpable for all bad things happening anywhere on the globe.
GIGGLES…who cares. The world’s poorest nation has totally crushed American Military. All US defenses prove 100% useless against primitive starving people.
Uneducated goat herders have crushed America’s military in Afghanistan.
And you seriously ask if a nuclear war can be won? Of course it can: By Russia when it defeat America should it attack.
Nothing has an uglier look than reason, when it is not on our side
Lord Halifax
Iran bringing the heat,they ain’t playin,next move use Isis/Al Qaeda/Houti fighters to seize those Saudi oilfields.Iranians with Chinese help could possibly gain/destroy a healthy chunk of Riyadh’s oil manufacturing capability…….and quick!
It’s also just coincidental that the price of crude will increase and so will the shares of Aramco… which are for sale. Inside job maybe?
Not if Aramco cannot protect the oil.
Exactly.
“The timing is too coincidental to Bolton’s departure.”
Amazingly so
How so? Why would they attack a tentative Ally just a few days after we get rid of a warmongering NSA?
False flag attack…black ops from the US could have done it. After all congress doesn’t even know half the stuff the CIA does
Any oil producing country could have done it…let’s get oil to $100 barrels
Trump eliminates war monger in cabinet, attack happens, other war mongers in cabinet push for war…
Libya – America invading a peaceful/sovereign Libya and killing their internationally recognized leader and destabilizing the entire region is the real source of the problem. Today’s drones have nothing to do with their problems.
Afghanistan – America uses drones 95% for intel gathering and the rest of time for selected strikes on Taliban/ISIS leadership. If every drone was removed from Afghanistan tomorrow – exactly what problems and sources of problems would go away there?
Iraq? What exactly is the “source” of the problem with drones there? I don’t think there has been a drone in Iraq for over a year now.
“US drone policy, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. are the real source of the problem”
The source of the problem with drones? How would you react if the Yemeni killed 1147 people including hundreds of children, all in a bid to kill 41 “bad” guys in America against whom there are no pending court cases? You would call it terrorism.
” If every drone was removed from Afghanistan tomorrow – exactly what problems and sources of problems would go away there?”
Exactly the same problems which would pop up in Texas, if the feds instead moved the Afghan drone campaign over there… At least if there are any remaining worthvile Texans with a spine left there by now.
The timing is too coincidental to Bolton’s departure.