2 Major Saudi Oil Installations Hit by Drone Strike, and U.S. Blames Iran

[Darth Omar]

It won't really matter until Saudi strikes backs. Until then it is just a geopolitical oil issue. Their prices go up etc...

Energy independence is a wonderful thing.

[Darth Omar]

I'm glad you've bought the Official Line, whatever that is. Let the bombing begin!

America's interests would be best served by withdrawing from the ME and letting them sort it out. Yes, that includes financial support of Israel too. If we feel the need to be involved, let it be via diplomacy.

Thanks to our current energy policy—that’s actually an option.

Vote democrat if you want to change that and go back to being compelled to get involved. Trump doesn’t want another stupid ME war but Bolton did and he’s gone.

Note how Trump’s energy policy dovetails with his foreign policy: if you want to take the Energy Card from the war hawks—maintain energy independence and it deprives them of an excuse to get our military involved in the region.

Where are the democrat contenders on that aspect?

[anatta]

Energy independence is a wonderful thing.

it sure does, we can guard the strait of Hormuz, but no troops in Iraq ( or Syria! ) either.

I filled up- prices expected to spike 25+ cents

[Darth Omar]

it sure does, we can guard the strait of Hormuz, but no troops in Iraq ( or Syria! ) either.

I filled up- prices expected to spike 25+ cents

It goes up and it goes down lol.

As long as it stays in the reasonable range I don’t pay much attention to it.

[Althea]

I have full confidence that our experienced-and-smarter-than-all-the-generals POTUS and his world-renowned personally-picked team of the best people-and-highly-trained-in-international-affairs team will figure this all out and do what's best for TrumpCo.

Meanwhile, fill up your gas tank while you can still afford to do so.

Saudis meddling in Yemen will cost them dearly. This isn't the first attack, but a better one.

Remember how much fun drones were when only we had them?

[Althea]

Energy independence is a wonderful thing.

You think we're energy independent?

[anatta]

It goes up and it goes down lol.

As long as it stays in the reasonable range I don’t pay much attention to it.

ya/ the bad thing though is the Houhis ( with Iran drones) can now drone KSA's production

[Iolo/Penderyn]

The Saudis have been murdering Yemenis in large numbers, but of course they didn't destroy the refineries. Clearly it was the Democrats!

[ThatOwlWoman]

Saudis meddling in Yemen will cost them dearly. This isn't the first attack, but a better one.

Remember how much fun drones were when only we had them?

LOL -- Yes, back then they were awesome.

I see the Toadstool announced that the U.S. bagged bin Laden's son. No doubt he will take full credit, and if the assassination was via drone, that'll be just fine and dandy. If via actual troops like with father bin Laden, Trump will still take all the credit. There won't be any "Thanks, Seal Team Six" from the toadies. lol

[Darth Omar]

LOL -- Yes, back then they were awesome.

I see the Toadstool announced that the U.S. bagged bin Laden's son. No doubt he will take full credit, and if the assassination was via drone, that'll be just fine and dandy. If via actual troops like with father bin Laden, Trump will still take all the credit. There won't be any "Thanks, Seal Team Six" from the toadies. lol

And no exposing Seal tactics that gets people killed.

[ThatOwlWoman]

And no exposing Seal tactics that gets people killed.

Sure thing.

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Drone attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two key oil installations inside Saudi Arabia on Saturday, damaging facilities that process the vast majority of the country’s crude output and raising the risk of a disruption in world oil supplies.

The attacks immediately escalated tensions in the Persian Gulf amid a standoff between the United States and Iran, even as key questions remained unanswered — where the drones were launched from, and how the Houthis managed to hit facilities deep in Saudi territory, some 500 miles from Yemeni soil.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of being behind what he called “an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply” and asserted that there was “no evidence the attacks came from Yemen.” He did not, however, specify an alternative launch site, and the Saudis themselves refrained from pointing the finger directly at Iran.

President Trump condemned the attack in a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and offered support for “Saudi Arabia’s self defense,” the White House said in a statement, adding that the United States “remains committed to ensuring global oil markets are stable and well supplied.”
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The Houthis said they had launched the aerial attacks with 10 drones, which would amount to their most audacious strike on Saudi Arabia since the kingdom intervened in Yemen’s war more than four years ago. The Saudi-led bombing campaign has devastated the impoverished country and exacerbated the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The Houthis are part of a regional network of militant groups aligned with and backed by Iran, Saudi Arabia’s regional rival. American and Saudi officials suspect that Iran has dispatched technicians to Yemen to train the Houthis on drone and missile technology.

United Nations investigators have written that the Houthis have acquired advanced drones that could have a range of up to 930 miles. That leaves open the possibility that the drones used Saturday had flown from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen. But they may also have been launched from another country, such as Iraq, or from inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has been training its militia proxies in the region, from Lebanon to Yemen, in more sophisticated warfare using drones, according to two people in Iran with knowledge of the programs.

In Yemen, for example, after Houthi missiles targeting Saudi Arabia were intercepted, Iran moved to train Houthis in drone technology, taking groups to Iran to master assembling, managing and repairing drones, said the people familiar with the programs.

Thank God President Trump has moved us towards energy independence. Under democrat rule,these events would roil oil markets. But, now it is no big deal

Drilling for our own oil is a national defense imperative and will lead to less wars

Democrats are too fucking stupid and worried about cutting their own dicks off to realize it

[anatta]

Pakistani Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden Still In Prison,
https://www.ibtimes.com/pakistani-do...oncern-2792793
Eight years after U.S. Navy SEALS stormed into an al-Qaeda compound in Abbottabad, about 35 miles north of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and killed the much-feared terrorist Osama bin Laden, a doctor who had helped the CIA to track down the most wanted person in the world by running a fake vaccine program in the city is still in a Pakistani prison, said media reports.

Pakistani officials arrested Shakil Afridi weeks after the U.S. special forces killed bin Laden in a military operation that lasted 40 minutes. Since Afridi was not aware of the real target of the U.S. mission when he signed up for running the vaccination program, he didn’t expect that some of the details of the covert mission would be leaked, exposing his identity.

Afridi was sentenced to 23 years imprisonment for his links with the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Islam.
But Qamar Nadeem, Afridi’s lawyer, the charges as mere excuses to punish the doctor....

[moon]

KSA pays for their weapons.
KSA did not start this war /it started by the Houthi's crossing the Yemen border and killing their border guards

Ripe horseshit.

[Earl]

Sure -- but Congress should stay out of it. Glad you're okay with your tax dollars going to yet another bogus bullshit war in the ME w/o any sort of voter say-so at all.

Actually, Mujer de Bujo, you do have a say-so. The members of the house and Senate and the president are all elected by the voters, which includes you, if you vote.

That's how it works in a Constitutional Republic.