From Ghassan Kadi at The Saker:
[W]hen Hariri was given the appointment as prime minister almost exactly a year ago, he had already lost not only his strong and powerful Saudi allies, but also his fortune and many of his Lebanese power brokers and street support…
If Israel and Hezbollah have another showdown, and this is probably a question of when not if, the timing and location may not be of Israel’s choosing.
From the comments:
I wonder how anyone can look at this map and say the war is nearly over…
The US wants the north east of Syria ethnically cleansed…
The war is getting worse and will not be won til the US is out of there whereas US actions show the opposite – more determination than ever…
I think there has been an underestimation of the Zionists’ resolve…
Israel has promised to bomb Lebanon flat- levelling the major civilian areas. Since the last Gaza holocaust, Britain and America have been shipping massive amounts of bombs built for this purpose into Israel’s stores…
Britain’s RAF has built its largest base in Britain’s history in Saudi Arabia, and British pilots, flying under Saudi colours, practice for war against Iran with their daily strikes in Yemen…
Israel wants to do Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank at the same time- using the cover of the Iran war to mass murder in excess of ***one million*** Humans to protect the jewish advantage for decades to come…
Iran will have no allies.
From Moon of Alabama:
The Salman branch of the current king and clown prince has now eliminated all of potential internal competition. This goes against the consensus model that had been the foundation of the Saudi family rule over the last century. Tens of thousands of clans and people depended on the patronage of the removed princes and officials. They will not just sit back as their fortunes evaporate…
One of the arrested persons is the allegedly sixth richest man of the world, Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal (video)…
A primary listing of Aramco oil conglomerate at the NYSE will give the U.S. government regulatory and legal authority over the most valuable company of the world…
All of Bin Salman’s endeavors have failed.
From the comments:
Linking the purge with the fanciful announcement of going back to a moderate Islam will be made only by ppl who have no clue about the kingdom…
Events have proven that Bashar al Assad was right when he said Saudi rulers are half-men!..
China is biggest buyer of Saudi oil…and holds the hammer… Trump can beg all he wants but Xi has already set up a gold-backed petro-yuan trading floor and will be slowly but surely insisting that Saudi oil is traded for renmibi…
From
Had the US and Israel succeeded in forming an independent Kurdish state in Iraq as a precursor to a Greater Kurdistan of some 23 million people, it would have thrown the entire region from Iran to Iraq to Syria and Turkey into war, the kind of really big war the Pentagon neoconservatives have salivated over since they concocted the fake proof in 2003 that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction…
Rex Tillerson as CEO of ExxonMobil defied the Baghdad government and invested in the Kurd region of Iraq along with Chevron after 2014 as a clear part of the US preparation for an independent oil-rich Kurdistan…
On October 29, Massoud Barzani announced he would step down as (illegitimate) President of the Iraqi Kurdish region, acknowledging the utter failure of the Israel-backed referendum ploy…
In addition to investing $3.5 billion into the Kurdish pipeline, Rosneft earlier this year lent the regional Kurdish government $1.2 billion to ease a budget crisis, making Russia far and away the largest foreign investor in the Iraqi Kurdish region.
The same day, October 19, the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), strongly backed by US weapons and training, in the ongoing war in Syria’s oil and gas-rich Deir Ezzor province, made a surprise deal to turn over the rich gas field to troops of the Russian Ground Forces, according to a report in the Beirut Almasdar News…
The Al-Tabiya gas field, formerly operated by Conoco of the US had the largest capacity of any field in Syria, capable of producing 13 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. The Almasdar News report states that the Russians will turn control back to the Syrian Damascus government…
The US-Israeli-backed Kurdistan independence ploy of Barzani has completely backfired.
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