Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2022

Did Saudi Arabia Just Hand the Midterms to the GOP?

 Blame it on the Saudis


Did Saudi Arabia Just Hand the Midterms to the GOP?

Earlier this month, the world’s largest oil-producing countries agreed to significant cuts in production as a means of keeping oil prices high as the global economy faces a potential recession in the coming year. The group known as OPEC+, which includes both the OPEC countries and several other petroleum producers not formally in the global oil cartel, said it would cut production quotas by 2 million barrels per day starting in November. The decision, led by top oil exporter Saudi Arabia along with other Gulf countries, was also seen as a slap in the face to President Joe Biden, whose administration had been frantically lobbying the Saudis and other Gulf allies to maintain or increase output and allow prices to continue to fall.

Thursday, October 6, 2022

OPEC Turns on USA (BIDEN)

 EVERYTHING IS GOING

 SWIMMINGLY:

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: 

Voters add violent crime to top concerns as murder and car thefts surge.

Biden has been president for less than two years, and look how things have changed: Gas prices, crime, war, inflation — pretty much everything has gotten worse. It’s not like there was no warning given.

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

When we kill the innocent

Biden's Response to 13 dead - Is a DISASTER 


When we kill the innocent.

A damning series of reports from Afghanistan.

I’m Isaac Saul, and this is Tangle: an independent, ad-free, subscriber-supported politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from across the political spectrum on the news of the day — then “my take.”

Monday, September 6, 2021

Gen. Milley Is Not An Honorable Nan

 HE’S NOT EVEN GOOD AT BEING MEDIOCRE: 

Mark Milley, Jen Griffin Interview Goes Pear-shaped. 


“Apparently, nowhere in Milley’s military education did they cover the First Law of Holes. Mark Milley just keeps digging and digging. And, Jennifer Griffin handed him the shovel in her interview.”

Plus: “A better man would throw his stars on the desk. A better man would stop digging. Mark Milley is not a good man. He has no honor.”


Related: 

Fire the military and intelligence bigs who bungled Afghanistan — now.

WELL, YES: 

Biden’s Afghanistan disaster — and his lies —astrong grounds for impeachment. 

Not that it’s going to happen.

 

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

What We Left Behind - as of Aug 31

 



The end of the war in Afghanistan.

What state did we leave it in?

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Today’s read: 11 minutes.

The war in Afghanistan comes to an end.

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The last American soldier,Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, leaving Afghanistan. Photo: Department of Defense Twitter

Clarification.

In the last few days, several news outlets — including this one — have referred to some $80 billion worth of American military equipment left to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Further reporting on this claim has clarified that the $83 billion is a sum from Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) which includes money spent on rebuilding the government and training. The sum of the weaponry is still mind-boggling. But we gave the Afghan government something more like $24 billion in weaponry and equipment over 20 years, and it’s not clear how much of what has been left with the Taliban is still operational. So it’s not close to $83 billion worth.

Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing - VDH

Tanks for Nothing 


Our Afghan Nightmare:
Tanks for Nothing

Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most misleading episodes in modern presidential history—mostly in what was not said rather than was exaggerated, warped, and misrepresented. 




Sept 1st Taliban's Turn to Govern - Damn You Biden

 

Taliban's Turn to Govern

Taliban fighters fired guns into the air at the Kabul airport yesterday, celebrating the final departure of US troops. The group now faces the challenge of imposing its strict form of Islamist government on a population of 38 million that analysts say is more educated and cosmopolitan since the group's previous rule from 1996 to 2001.

The country's fragile economy is in a perilous position—more than 40% of its gross domestic product came from international aid, much of which is now frozen. An estimated 44% of the workforce is in the agricultural sector and 90% of its country lives on less than $2 per day. Officials have warned of a humanitarian crisis, depending on near-term decisions by the Taliban government. 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US will not have a diplomatic presence in the country, with diplomats from the Kabul embassy relocating to Qatar. Between 100 and 200 Americans who still wish to leave reportedly remain, having been prevented from making it to the airfield in time. President Joe Biden addressed the nation yesterday, defending his decision to stick to an Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline and declaring an end to the US war in Afghanistan.

Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue was the last American soldier to depart Afghanistan; see his photo here

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Palestine Shouldn’t Exist - American Greatness

 Palestine Should Not Exist


Palestine Shouldn’t Exist

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

A Major War In The Middle East - Could be brewing.............. 03/09/21

 

9 Signs That Chess Pieces Are Being Moved Into Place For A Major War In The Middle East


In this article, I would like to examine some of the chess moves that have been made since Joe Biden entered the White House.  As you will see, a very troubling picture emerges once you start putting all of the pieces together.

#1 Literally one day after Biden was inaugurated, a massive U.S. military convoy rolled into Syria

A large US military convoy entered northeastern Syria on Thursday, Syrian state news agency SANA reports, citing sources on the ground.

According to the report, the convoy included some 40 trucks and armored vehicles and was backed from the air by helicopters.

President Trump had tried very hard to disengage from the war in Syria, but Biden has made it crystal clear that the U.S. will be heavily involved in that conflict moving forward.

#2 Just a few weeks later, Joe Biden conducted his first airstrike against Iranian-backed forces inside Syria…

The US has carried out an air strike targeting Iran-backed militias in Syria, in the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration.

The Pentagon said the strike destroyed “multiple facilities” and was ordered in response to attacks against US and coalition personnel in Iraq.

Militia officials said one person had been killed but a war monitor reported at least 22 fatalities.

#3 Of course it was inevitable that Iranian-backed forces would respond, and they retaliated by launching rockets at a military base in Iraq where U.S. forces are stationed.  Just a couple days ago, new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that there will be a U.S. military response “at a time and place of our own choosing”

Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin tells @MarthaRaddatz the U.S. is still assessing who carried out recent rocket attack on base in Iraq housing U.S. troops—and that if the U.S. decides to respond, it will be “at a time and place of our own choosing.”

#4 More U.S. airstrikes may come sooner rather than later.  In fact, it is being reported that the U.S. has just sent six B-52 bombers to Diego Garcia…

The U.S. Air Force is sending six B-52 Stratofortress bombers to Diego Garcia, a military hub that acts as a strategic location for operations in both the Middle East and the Pacific.

Citing a U.S. official, CNN on Monday reported that the Cold War-era bomber will be “available for operations against Iran if ordered.”

#5 The Biden administration is also sending approximately 10,000 more U.S. troops to the Middle East…

Once the amphibious assault ship Bataan, which is moving toward the Middle East, arrives, the U.S. will have added roughly 10,000 personnel to the area within the last week, according to The Wall Street Journal.

#6 Russia has been busy making moves in the region as well.  On Friday, Russia conducted an air strike on an oil-loading facility in Syria that is used by opposition forces that are backed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Biden administration…

A suspected missile strike on an oil-loading facility used by Turkey-backed opposition forces in northern Syria sparked a massive blaze across a large area where oil tankers are normally parked, aerial and satellite images show.

Syrian opposition groups and at least one war monitor blamed Russia for the strike Friday night near the towns of Jarablus and al-Bab, near the border with Turkey. In a report, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, said Russian warships in the Mediterranean had fired three missiles that struck primitive oil refineries and tanker trucks in the region.

#7 Meanwhile, Israel continues to hit strategically important targets inside Syria on a regular basis.  The following comes from a news report that was published in late February

Syrian air defenses were activated in the capital Damascus and its southern suburbs Sunday night to repel an Israeli missile attack, state media reported. There was no word on casualties.

State TV quoted an unnamed military official as saying that most of the Israeli missiles were shot down before reaching their targets near Damascus.

#8 Israel is particularly interested in keeping Iran from developing nuclear weapons.  In an interview with Fox News, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz just stated that Israel is ready to attack Iran without any U.S. help

The Israeli military is updating plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites and is prepared to act independently, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told Fox News.

Israel has identified numerous targets inside Iran that would hurt its ability to develop a nuclear bomb.

“If the world stops them before, it’s very much good. But if not, we must stand independently and we must defend ourselves by ourselves,” Gantz said in his first sit-down interview with an American outlet.

#9 During a phone call last Thursday between Kamala Harris and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister made it exceedingly clear that his nation is ready to do whatever it takes to prevent the Iranians from developing their own nukes…

“The prime minister said we would continue to strengthen our intelligence and security cooperation and said during their conversation that as prime minister of Israel, he is totally committed to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons that are meant for our destruction.”

Of course the Iranians have no plans to back down, and that makes a military conflict between Israel and Iran inevitable.

There will be war in the Middle East, and the horror of that conflict will shock the entire planet.

And once that war begins, it will greatly accelerate our economic problems and the ongoing political turmoil in this country.

So enjoy this brief period of relative stability while you can, because our world is about to start changing in dramatic ways.

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