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More notes on the unfolding Sunni-Shia war
Iran can easily destroy Saudi Arabia's main export terminal of Kharg island. Iran can EASILY close the Straights of Hormuz. They don't have to actually close it. They can just fire a couple of missiles and the insurance rates will be prohibitive for shipping. Over 70% of the oil flows through there. Any crash in oil deliveries would bring a huge spike in prices and possibly, set off economic collapse.
Both Netanyahooo and Salman are nut cases.
Hezbollah’s Sayyed Nasrallah
What was startling about his speech—in which he customarily dissected current regional hot spots with sharp insight—is that Nasrallah addressed Israeli citizens directly.
“You will not have time to pack and leave when war begins; and nowhere will be safe for you in Historic Palestine – nowhere!” exclaimed Nasrallah.
Nasrallah did what he NEVER did before.
For in addressing Israeli citizens directly, he earnestly advised them to start packing and return to their true motherlands in Europe, the US and elsewhere, as soon as possible and before imminent war breaks out.
"Israeli’ media unveiled that the 2006 invasion was based on Saudi incitement so they could eliminate Hezbollah.
beating the war drums against Iran, Hezbollah fighters won’t stop at Lebanon but will push to Jerusalem itself.
Just 3,500 irregular Hezbollah militia battled 30,000-strong high-tech IDF to a bloody stalemate in Israel’s month-long invasion in 2006.
The group has muscled up its arsenal of rockets and missiles since then, estimated at 80,000 - 120,000 fine-tuned for longer distances ranging the full length of Israel.
a true existential war for the very life of Israel is now afoot as they build themselves up visibly on the horizon, and run the risk of becoming smoking ruins by doing something stupid.
For with their success in destroying ISIS in Syria, Hezbollah is in a fighting mood.
War Clouds Beyond Lebanon | Real Jew News
"While turbulent during the best of times, gigantic waves of change are now sweeping across the Middle East. The magnitude is such that the impact on the global price of oil, as well as world markets, is likely to be enormous."
That it's receiving too little attention in the US press given the implications, is a tip off as to just how big a deal this is -- as we're all familiar by now with how the greater the actual relevance and importance of a development, the less press coverage it receives.
Keep the confidence going.
"Unless you study it intensively, Saudi politics are difficult to follow because they are rooted in the drama of a very large and dysfunctional family battling over its immense wealth. If you think your own family is nuts, multiply the crazy factor by 1,000, sprinkle in a willingness to kill any family members who get in your way, and you'll have the right perspective for grasping how Saudi 'politics' operate.
The House of Saud is the ruling royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (hereafter referred to as "KSA")
"King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud demanded the country’s Treasury purchases stay “strictly secret,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by Bloomberg from the National Archives database.
“Buying bonds and all that was a strategy to recycle petrodollars back into the U.S.,” said David Ottaway, a Middle East fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington."
WHO allowed this info to be released after all these years,,, and WHY?
" Then-president Obama had to fly over there to smooth things out. It seems the job he did was insufficient; "
"Any Saudi who would take on princes and clerics is obviously desperate"
But first we have to discuss what might happen if a civil war were to engulf Saudi Arabia. The price of oil would undoubtedly spike. In turn, that would cripple the weaker countries, companies and households around the world that simply cannot afford a higher oil price. And there's a lot of them.
Financial markets would destabilize as long-suppressed volatility would explode higher, creating horrific losses across the board."
"The trajectory of events is headed in a direction that may well end the arrangement that has served as the axis around which geopolitics has spun for the past 40 years."
My analysis is that by funding an insane amount of shale oil development, at a loss, and at any cost (such as to our biggest Mideast ally) the US has time and again displayed that our ‘friendship’ does not run very deep. "
"We also explain why, unless something very dramatically changes in either the supply or demand equation for oil, and soon, we can now put a timeline in place for when the great unravelling begins. Somewhere between the second half of 2018 and the end of 2019 oil will dramatically increase in price and that will shake the foundations of the global mountain of debt and its related underfunded liabilities. Think 9.0 on the financial Richter scale. "
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/...ying-attention
Iran can easily destroy Saudi Arabia's main export terminal of Kharg island. Iran can EASILY close the Straights of Hormuz. They don't have to actually close it. They can just fire a couple of missiles and the insurance rates will be prohibitive for shipping. Over 70% of the oil flows through there. Any crash in oil deliveries would bring a huge spike in prices and possibly, set off economic collapse.
Both Netanyahooo and Salman are nut cases.
Hezbollah’s Sayyed Nasrallah
What was startling about his speech—in which he customarily dissected current regional hot spots with sharp insight—is that Nasrallah addressed Israeli citizens directly.
“You will not have time to pack and leave when war begins; and nowhere will be safe for you in Historic Palestine – nowhere!” exclaimed Nasrallah.
Nasrallah did what he NEVER did before.
For in addressing Israeli citizens directly, he earnestly advised them to start packing and return to their true motherlands in Europe, the US and elsewhere, as soon as possible and before imminent war breaks out.
"Israeli’ media unveiled that the 2006 invasion was based on Saudi incitement so they could eliminate Hezbollah.
beating the war drums against Iran, Hezbollah fighters won’t stop at Lebanon but will push to Jerusalem itself.
Just 3,500 irregular Hezbollah militia battled 30,000-strong high-tech IDF to a bloody stalemate in Israel’s month-long invasion in 2006.
The group has muscled up its arsenal of rockets and missiles since then, estimated at 80,000 - 120,000 fine-tuned for longer distances ranging the full length of Israel.
a true existential war for the very life of Israel is now afoot as they build themselves up visibly on the horizon, and run the risk of becoming smoking ruins by doing something stupid.
For with their success in destroying ISIS in Syria, Hezbollah is in a fighting mood.
War Clouds Beyond Lebanon | Real Jew News
"While turbulent during the best of times, gigantic waves of change are now sweeping across the Middle East. The magnitude is such that the impact on the global price of oil, as well as world markets, is likely to be enormous."
That it's receiving too little attention in the US press given the implications, is a tip off as to just how big a deal this is -- as we're all familiar by now with how the greater the actual relevance and importance of a development, the less press coverage it receives.
Keep the confidence going.
"Unless you study it intensively, Saudi politics are difficult to follow because they are rooted in the drama of a very large and dysfunctional family battling over its immense wealth. If you think your own family is nuts, multiply the crazy factor by 1,000, sprinkle in a willingness to kill any family members who get in your way, and you'll have the right perspective for grasping how Saudi 'politics' operate.
The House of Saud is the ruling royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (hereafter referred to as "KSA")
"King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud demanded the country’s Treasury purchases stay “strictly secret,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by Bloomberg from the National Archives database.
“Buying bonds and all that was a strategy to recycle petrodollars back into the U.S.,” said David Ottaway, a Middle East fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington."
WHO allowed this info to be released after all these years,,, and WHY?
" Then-president Obama had to fly over there to smooth things out. It seems the job he did was insufficient; "
"Any Saudi who would take on princes and clerics is obviously desperate"
But first we have to discuss what might happen if a civil war were to engulf Saudi Arabia. The price of oil would undoubtedly spike. In turn, that would cripple the weaker countries, companies and households around the world that simply cannot afford a higher oil price. And there's a lot of them.
Financial markets would destabilize as long-suppressed volatility would explode higher, creating horrific losses across the board."
"The trajectory of events is headed in a direction that may well end the arrangement that has served as the axis around which geopolitics has spun for the past 40 years."
My analysis is that by funding an insane amount of shale oil development, at a loss, and at any cost (such as to our biggest Mideast ally) the US has time and again displayed that our ‘friendship’ does not run very deep. "
"We also explain why, unless something very dramatically changes in either the supply or demand equation for oil, and soon, we can now put a timeline in place for when the great unravelling begins. Somewhere between the second half of 2018 and the end of 2019 oil will dramatically increase in price and that will shake the foundations of the global mountain of debt and its related underfunded liabilities. Think 9.0 on the financial Richter scale. "
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/...ying-attention
The IDF said that Iran can hit them with 11,000 missiles a minute. Saudi wants to pick a fight with Hezbollah. Tel Aviv is going to look worse than Mosul.
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