Showing posts with label Saudi Arabia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saudi Arabia. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Typical straw man argument from Trump when Saudi Arabia has primarily defensive ballistic missiles, 30x fewer of them than Iran, and used none of them in the recent war when Iran launched 135 against them

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  Trump On Iran Deal: "What Am I Going To Do? Let Saudi Arabia Have Missiles, But They Can't?"
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

When the going gets tough, the weak have to sell their gold, or hinder its purchase

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  As gold’s tumble continues, traders bet the pain may last for two more years ... “Turkey’s central bank is selling gold and buying dollars...
Friday, June 5, 2026

The increase in Saudi oil exports through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in April 2026 came to about 3.3 million barrels per day according to Kpler

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   Iran’s threats against this Red Sea choke point are a big vulnerability for the oil market  ... Oil and product exports through the Bab e...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

Meanwhile CNBC has an excellent story with great interactive graphs of vessel transits through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait before and after the Houthi and Iran conflicts

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 And it's quite clear that the Iran war has had no real effect on the number of vessel transits through the Bab-el-Mandeb while destroyi...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Tanker transits in both the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea crawled to a virtual halt on April 10-11

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Just two out of the Strait of Hormuz April 10-11, just nine through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in either direction after Iran attacked the Sau...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Today's drinking word is CINO

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 Ceasefire in name only.    
Saturday, March 28, 2026

Tanker traffic out of the Persian Gulf has been cut by 98% in one month because of the Iran War, effectively reducing the world's primary energy inputs through the Strait of Hormuz by 20%

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The UAE is bypassing the Strait of Hormuz with 1.9 million barrels per day now coming out of Fujairah via its overland pipeline, and Saudi A...

The Houthis have joined Iran by restarting hostilities against Israel

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Trump couldn't finish the Houthis off last year, and now they come back to bite. Oil tankers filling at Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port in...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

For all the crazies who think the Joos are behind the U.S. attack on Iran, make room in your conspiracy theories now for the Saudis, too, lol

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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Trump's base is not happy: Strong disapproval of Trump hits new high 46% in Rasmussen Reports Poll, strong approval hits new low 27% for a second day

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Trump's total disapproval score remains at a record high 55% for a second day. His strong approval score is now a record low 27%, lower ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

The guy on the left beheaded a record high 345 people, mostly for non-violent drug offenses, in Saudi Arabia in 2024, but he says he still feels pain for the 9/11 families of America

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   Trump, Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman brush off criticism of Khashoggi killing  ... On Tuesday, bin Salman said, “You know, I feel painful...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

A week before the 60-day War Powers Act deadline, the Houthis conveniently cry uncle and pledge to halt attacks on US naval forces and Red Sea shipping

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  Israel wipes out the Houthi airport, fuel supplies, and concrete factory and then they finally cry uncle?  Something doesn't add up he...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Trump lets Putin select America's negotiating team, removes Keith Kellogg from Ukraine-Russia negotiations after objections from Putin, objections which may have been transmitted by Steve Witkoff

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 Kremlin told U.S. it didn't want Trump's Ukraine-Russia envoy at peace talks President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine an...
Friday, February 28, 2025

For everything else there's MasterCard

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Monday, February 24, 2025

Nutball worlds in collision: Trumpism defends freedom in Europe with its right hand, stabs it in the back in Ukraine with its left, Biden defended freedom in Ukraine with his right, attacked it in America with his left

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   But The Federalist has its blinders on. Biden baaaaaaad! Trump gooooood! "Let's see if we can find some naive kid to write a sto...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: To watch our ally of 80 years, the USA, turn on us with ferocity and blithely team up with our declared enemy really is the end of days

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  Trump’s embrace of Putin is a Molotov-Ribbentrop crisis for Europe : The new regime in Washington is testing pro-American sympathies to br...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Kamala Harris' cloud cuckoo land climate plan when she ran for president in 2019 would cost only $10 trillion in the first ten years, would end all gasoline cars by 2035, penalize oil and gas companies just for existing

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https://web.archive.org/web/20191203230607/https:/kamalaharris.org/policies/climate/full-policy/ : ...