Within 60 days or so, petroleum inventories will be dangerously low worldwide. Not just in Europe, or Africa, or SE Asia, but in the USA, too.
Nonetheless, Israel continues to push its war, dragging the US and Arab countries in its smelly wake. This is a partial list of What Happened THIS MORNING in the Middle East:
Explosions were heard near Qeshm Island in Iran on Wednesday morning.
Kuwait's Army announced its air defences were intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks, while reports noted that two US bases were targeted in Kuwait, with explosions in the Ali al-Salem and Arifjan bases where US soldiers are stationed.
Furthermore, air raid sirens sounded in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, with explosions also reported in Saudi Arabia, while explosions were heard in Qamishli, Syria, and earlier reports noted multiple explosions in the centre of Iraqi Kurdistan with the headquarters of anti-Iranian separatist groups targeted.
IRGC said the US attacked Qeshm Island, and in response, Iran carried out precise and intensive missile strikes on US bases in Kuwait, while it warned further US aggression will be met with a seismic, crushing and decisive response.
IRGC said the headquarters of the US 5th Fleet in Bahrain was attacked by missiles and drones from the IRGC Aerospace Force, while it targeted a US-affiliated vessel named Panaya with missiles and clarified the recent attack was in retaliation for the US targeting an IRGC communications tower in the south of Qeshm Island.US CENTCOM said Iran launched several ballistic missiles towards neighbours and that forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian missiles, while US forces had conducted strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran.
CENTCOM stated that forces shot down three one-way attack drones launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters, and US forces also conducted self-defence strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island. Furthermore, it denied IRGC claims that Iran struck the 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain and a US airbase in the region, and stated that all Iranian attacks on US forces failed.
US CENTCOM says forces disabled a Botswana-flagged unladen oil tanker that was attempting to sail toward an Iranian port on the Arabian Gulf on June 2nd. Says: US aircraft disabled the vessel by firing a Hellfire missile into the ship’s engine room, preventing the tanker from reaching Iran.
A reminder: it's not only petroleum. It's also--critically--fertilizer. So lots of people will die of starvation for Israel's little 'weekend excursion.'
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I've spent a lot of time at Ali al-Salem.
What the administration is doing isn't obvious to me; I don't quite understand why they moved a lot of Marines and paratroopers into place and didn't use them. The strategy of using Hormuz to crush Iran makes sense. At some point, though, the supply line pressures are going to compel commitment rather than this stand-offishness.
What it isn't going to do is just stop. The logic of the conflict is always to proceed to conclusion, and there's no one left in Iran to make a deal if they would.
“I don't quite understand why they moved a lot of Marines and paratroopers into place and didn't use them.”
It’s called posturing. Trump isn’t serious in sending in Americans to die.
“The strategy of using Hormuz to crush Iran makes sense.”
How do you figure?
“At some point, though, the supply line pressures are going to compel commitment rather than this stand-offishness.”
Commitment to stand down, yes.
“What it isn't going to do is just stop. The logic of the conflict is always to proceed to conclusion, and there's no one left in Iran to make a deal if they would.”
A conclusion that U.S. military strategy in the region under Trump is inept.
I figure that it’s shown the People’s Republic of China that they don’t have a way to keep the strait open, and also can’t afford for it to be closed. That means that if they start that war over Taiwan, the center of gravity could be well outside their reach. Rather than sinking American warships with hypersonic missile strikes, the war could be won outside their range.
If it stops a war between the US and China, this action will save potentially millions of lives.
“…under Trump is inept.”
Not under him specifically; the Afghan withdrawal was a horrific display of ineptitude by military officers with decades of combat experience. VZ went well, but that was Delta; it’s not clear if that level of competence extends very broadly.
However, it could be that the strategy is just unclear to me; they’re not doing what I would do, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t know what they are doing. It does mean that I don’t know what they’re doing.
“I figure that it’s shown the People’s Republic of China that they don’t have a way to keep the strait open,”
This doesn’t show that China is on board to “crush Iran”.
“That means that if they start that war over Taiwan”
And risk international sanctions and isolation. No, with China, it’s all bluster on this front.
“If it stops a war between the US and China, this action will save potentially millions of lives.”
There is no war on the table now or in the future between these two countries over Taiwan.
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