Russia Warns Attack On Saudi Oil Plant Will Hit Fuel Prices

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World’s largest oil refinery ablaze after Houthi rebels drone strike (picture: Screen grab from Sky News video )

Following the drone attack by Yemeni rebels on a major Saudi Arabian oil processing plant, The Kremlin’s warned that the loss of production from the stricken plant will destabilise oil prices worldwide.  This follows statements by the European Union and the UK condemning the Houthi drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities carried out on Saturday (14 September, 2019).

While President Trump made belligerent noises, guaranteed to provoke the rebels Shia Muslim supporters in Iran , Russian President Vladimir Putin has simply asked to b kept up to date on developments in the wake of two drone attacks on the major Saudi energy facilities.  Russia believes such incidents will not contribute to the stabilisation of the global energy market, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. It is safe to assume Russia’s leaders see the incident as an opportunity to benefit from higher crude oil prices.

“The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure are an alarming event for the oil markets…Of course, such turbulence does not contribute to the stabilisation of the energy market,” Peskov said.

According to Peskov, the Saudi side has not appealed to Russia for assistance in the wake of the attacks, and probably has the necessary capacity to deal with the disruption on their own. “We don’t know whether they need help, but it’s unlikely. They have all the necessary capabilities themselves,” he said.

Peskov said the Kremlin “strongly condemned” Saturday’s incident, if it could be confirmed that the Saudi Aramco facilities were attacked by drones. (He would say that, wouldn’t he?)

EU, UK, France Condemn Attacks

Earlier on Sunday morning, the European Union’s foreign policy office issued a statement condemning the drone attacks, which, the statement read, posed a “real threat” of escalation of the Saudi – Yemeni conflict into full scale war between two regional powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and adding that “at a time when tensions in the region are running high, this attack undermines ongoing work at de-escalation and dialogue.” Brussels stands in solidarity with Saudi authorities and the Saudi people, the statement noted.

The UK Foreign Office also condemned the attack in diplomatic terms although certain people in The Treasury must have been rubbing their hands with glee as it becomes economically viable to reopen many North Sea rigs if Brent Crude goes above $80. China too would not be disappointed as Saudi Arabia is a long term ally of the USA, while the smaller oil producers most likely to benefit from the Saudi outage are more friendly to The People’s Republic in its bid to establish the petroyuan as a rival to the Petrodollar for cross border oil trades.

We have reported many times on the merciless bombing of the impoverished Shia Muslim state of Yemen. The conflict started when rebels tried to depose the Saudi – friendly regime and spawned a huge humanitarian crisis which was barely reported in mainstream media, as Saudi air strikes targeted roads, water supplies, sewage systems, hospitals and ports.

Predictably, news of the attack drove financial and commodity traders traders into a collective panic as global markets reopened after the weekend break, with with commodity traders desperately trying to calculate what the upper limit per barrel of oil prices would be (the previous record of $1.09 might hold when markets realise that while Saudi Arabia is still the world’s second biggest producer it is not as dominant as it once was, having been passed by the USA in 2018, and if the Kingdom and Iran decide to neutralise each other, Russia, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, the nations of the Caspian region, Nigeria , Mexico and a host od smaller oil producing nations will be happy to pump more once higher prices make production economically viable. When brent (the highest grade of crude,) reopened for trading in the aftermath of Saturday’s attack on the “world’s most important oil processing plant“, the price immediately exploded to around 20% higher than at close of business on Friday, to a high of $71.95 from the Friday $60.22 close, its biggest jump since 1988.

The hit to stability of supplies will exceed the loss of Iranian oil output in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy. It will also be worse than the loss of Iraqi and Kuwaiti production in 1990 when Saddam Hussein decided to annex Kuwait and add it to his empire and saw most of the oil infrastructure of both nations destroyed in the ensuing war.

News that the Saudi outage could last for months, rather that the weeks initially predicted suggest this could be just the start. Even if there are no more attacks on Saudi facilities or retaliation by the Saudis on Iran, the supply problem will not be be clear right away. The Saudis can still deliver from reserves for a few weeks but if the outage runs to months as industry sources are now predicting, we can expect crude prices to keep rising until there is relable evidence that output will be restored.

 

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Assad Prepping Chemical Weapons; US Diplomat claims. Russia Threatens Attack On US Base

The situation in Syria is deteriorating rapidly in Syria as the Assad government prepares for its final assault on Idlib, the last stronghold of the head amputating, journalist roasting, murdering, torturing, sex slave taking, raping, thieving, kiddie fiddling  ISIS / Al Nusra extremists (better known perhaps as Barack Obama’s beloved moderate rebels.)  Russian jets have been bombarding rebel positions in Idlib Province as the Syrian Army initiates a ground invasion which Damascus has described as coming in a “phased” approach.

The White House responded to the Syrian and Russian bombing campaign by vowing it would act “swiftly and vigorously” should chemical weapons be used, conveniently forgetting that in other cases where the US has alleged the Assad regime has used gas against its own people, in efforts to justify direct intervention in Syria, Putin has faced down The Pentagon, while subsequent investigations by the independent OPCW (Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons) inspectors has found no evidence of the Assad government’s involvement, and on the famous ocasion when the cildbrain Barack Hussein Obama claimed he had irrefutable evidence that Assad was responsible for a poison gas incident, the inspectors found very strong evidence that the gas cannisters were fired by the rebels into a civilian area under the control of the Assad government. Furthermore the gas used was discovered to have originated in the USA.

Just a day ago US diplomats claimed there’s “lots of evidence” chemical weapons are being prepared by the Syrian forces, citing intelligence of such activities. We remind you again that at the end of last month and early this month the Russian government was warning that a false flag gas attack was being prepared by US agents to justify interference in the final defeat of the CIA sponsored bid to oust Assad and replace him with a government beholden to the Islamic fundamentalist monarchy of Saudi Arabia. Readers should also bear in mind that as with previous allegations of illegal weapon use by the Syrian regime, the “US Intelligence” comes from the rebels themselves, hardly what a sane person would call a reliable source (although the mass murderer and war criminal Obama was happy to believe their every word.

America’s top general has now confirmed the Pentagon is drawing up military options to attack Syria and is in currently in close discussion with the White House over the plans.  Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters on Saturday during a trip to India, according to Reuters:

he was involved in “routine dialogue” with the White House about military options should Syria ignore U.S. warnings against using chemical weapons in an expected assault on the enclave of Idlib.

President Trump has already ordered Tomahawk missile attacks on Syria twice, in the past 2 Aprils.

However, Gen. Dunford noted that no decision has been made to intervene militarily in response to Idlib. “But we are in a dialogue, a routine dialogue, with the president to make sure he knows where we are with regard to planning in the event that chemical weapons are used,” he told a group of reporters.

Dunford added in reference to his talks with President Trump: “He expects us to have military options and we have provided updates to him on the development of those military options.”

The fact that Russia has stationed a flotilla of warships in the eastern Mediterranean, off Syria, may influence the final decision of the Pentagon and the Department of Defense of course, as it has before.

Trump had previously bombed Syria twice after allegations that Assad ordered a chemical weapons attack  in April 2017 and April 2018 the former was in response to a claimed sarin attack on Idlib.

White House officials have vowed to hold Assad responsible for any chemical attack allegations that emerge. Given that all previous allegations of chemical weapons use has not been proved, it seems to this publication the USA is simply desperate for war.

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Evacuation of thousands of civilians from Ghouta unveiled the false propaganda of states that shed crocodile tears for them

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Damascus, 16 March

Thousands of civilians left Eastern Ghouta safely despite all the efforts made by the terrorists to prevent them from leaving, and this mass evacuation confirms that all the crying and wailing by by mass media in the west, with claims that Assad was slaughtering his own people, are nothing but fake news exposing the hypocrisy of the western powers that want to depose the Syrian government.

An official source at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry told SANA that after years of hypocrisy, deception, false reporting, using civilians as human shields, starving them, depriving them of aid, and using them to justify the persecution of minority groups, the Syrian Arab Republic has been able over the past few days to unveil the biggest lies and deception practiced by the armed terrorist groups in Eastern Ghouta, as the Syrian Arab Army secured the exit of thousands of the civilians who were besieged by the terrorists and transferred them to makeshift shelters equipped with food and medical and social services.

The source added that the en mass exit of thousands of people from Ghouta in front of media outlets, despite the desperate attempts by the terrorists to prevent them from leaving through violence and intimidation, proves to the world that all the crying and wailing by certain countries at the expense of the lives of civilians are nothing but lies and hypocrisy that have been revealed to the world, as civilians flee the areas controlled by terrorists in East Ghouta to nearby government-held areas under the protection of the Syrian Arab Army,debunking the rhetoric that has been used over seven years by the terrorists and the Western and regional states that control them.

The source concluded by saying that the Syrian Arab Republic confirm sits readiness to secure the needs of its citizens wherever they were, and calls on the United Nations and its relief organizations to shoulder their responsibilities by providing aid to the places where thousands of civilians are currently living in Damascus Countryside.

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Last April the US fired 59 Tomahawk missiles on Syria, in ostensibly in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack by the Assad regime on its own people. It was later confirmed by United Nations officials in Syria that there was no evidence to suggest the Assad regime was responsible, in fact such evidence as existed pointed to terrorist groups funded, armed and trained by the USA were responsible.  The same excuse was used by the US to justify its intervention in the conflict back in 2013 when Obama’s declaration that the priority of the US . NATO alliance was not to defeat the terorists but to remove and replace the Assad regime which drove military tensions between the US and Russia to the brink of armed conflict in the middle east.

Almost a year later the western powers had learned nothing as, the Washington Post reported two weeks ago that the US is considering a new military intervention against Syria in retaliation for Assad’s latest alleged chemical attack.

Syrians evacuate Eastern Ghouta following alleged chemical weapon attack (Image source: afp)

 Again there is no evidence to suggest the Assad regime was responsible, again all the available evidence points to a false flag attack by US / NATO backed anti – Assad rebels.  In fact, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, (recently fired for saying the US intends keeping troops in Syria indefinitely, just days after President Trump said he wanted them out, in a moment of bizarre honesty, admitted that western military intelligence services really don’t know much about “who conducted the attacks.” But when did facts become a concern of the war industry, just as we are told it is “highly likely” that Russia poisoned a former Russian double agent in the UK – with no proof yet but direct accusations of the Russian leader by the UK Prime Minister and US President, so it is “highly likely” that ‘the insane tyrant Assad ‘ was behind an attack which could not benefit his cause in any way but which he (neither an insane nor a stupid man,) knew would provoke extreme responses by the USA and its allies, and probably result in further attacks on his territory.

 Now we wait for news that US ships, still stationed off the Syrian coast after a build up of warships two years ago, have launched a missile attack on Damascus. Only this time Russia – which is allied with the Assad regime – is not planning to be on the defensive. According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, backed up by western reporters with links to Syria, such as Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett “US instructors” are currently training militants to stage false flag chemical attacks in south Syria, i.e., the catalyst that will be used to justify the US attack on Assad. The false flag incidents will be used a pretext for airstrikes on Syrian government troops and infrastructure, the Russian ministry claimed.

“We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of militant groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf, to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria,” Russian General Staff spokesman General Sergey Rudskoy said at a press conference on Saturday 17 March, adding:

“The false provocations will be used as a pretext by the United States and its allies to launch strikes on military and government infrastructure in Syria.”

Confirming the Washington Post’s report from early March, it now appears that an attack is imminent.
“We’re registering the signs of the preparations for the possible strikes. Strike groups of the cruise missile carriers have been formed in the east of the Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf and Red Sea,” Rudskoy warned.

Moscow and Damascus have warned about new false flag events, and have revealed that banned weapons have been used by Islamist rebels. None of this matters to Western which has orders to present the bloodthirsty tryantAssad and an irrational despot who enjoys slaughtering his own people, in order to swing public opinion to support a military intervention. It is worth reminding readers that while Russian and Iranian troops are in Syria legally at the request of the legitimate government, (and no matter how much Washington, London and Brussels hate the fact, the Assad regime is the legitimate government and western presence in Syria breaks just about every international law and violates the United Nations charter.

So what about those chemical weapons used in Syria and the claims they come from Russia, Iran or North Korea. A few days ago, Syrian government forces reportedly captured a well-equipped chemical laboratory in Eastern Ghouta. Footage from the facility has been published by the SANA news agency.

The installation contained modern industrial-grade hardware of foreign origins, large amounts of chemical substances as well as crude homemade munitions ad their parts. It was unclear if the chemical lab was capable of synthesizing the novachok nerve gas used in the alleged attempted murder of the Russian agent in the UK that has resulted in the latest diplomatic scandal involving Russia and the west.

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Flight MH17 – a little common sense amid the politics

sam missile launcherSurface to air missile launcher – Ukranian military have them and men trained to use them. The East Ukraine separatists are nutters who are still trying to work out how to throw a Molotov Cocktail.

Looking for common sense on the Ukraine Malaysia Airlines downing I found in a Times Of India article the views views of experienced airline pilot Jaideep Banerjee. Veteran passenger flight commander Banerjee has come up with a pretty simple rule of thumb. He has told The Times of India’s reporter that civilian aircraft should avoid flying over any area that has a strong presence of UN Peace Keeping Forces.

“We are not dealing with Naxalites here. The rebels and militia in these areas are equivalent to state actors who have brute weaponry. Billions of dollars that Somali pirates get through ransom from hijacking ships is ploughed into the arms industry. What happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is unbelievable but true. We are now vulnerable and need to do everything possible to stay out of harm’s way,” Mr. Banerjee said.

Which is exactly what Boggart Blog (and anyone else with a smidgin of intelligence) was saying yesterday.

Trouble is the world is led by people who love and are addicted power and see war as a path to power. So while the decisions they make may seem insane to us, they are quite rational to the power elite’s warped world view.

The latest we have from the elite insane asylum is this via Reuters:

REUTERS – UKRAINE’S COUNTER INTELLIGENCE CHIEF SAYS HAS “COMPELLING EVIDENCE” THAT CREW OF “THIS SYSTEM” (BUK-1 MISSILE SYSTEM) WERE RUSSIAN CITIZENS.

Really? how could they know that? Presumably Ukrainian intelligence staff were not at the launch site taking note or filming events on their smart phones.

My guess is they got the information from the US Government or the CIA. Which means of course the evidence is as compelling as that which ‘proved’ the poison gas attract in Syria was launched by Assad’s troops. Funny how that story went quiet when real evidence emerged that the atrocity had been a US/Israeli false flag event.

Or maybe even as compelling as the evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq had Weapons of Mass destruction that threatened the west and gave another US President and another set of European arse lickers an excuse to start a war.

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The west’s desire to send troops into Syria and give the rebels air support has, predictably been thwarted by Russia and China both still pissed off at the way a UN resolution permitting humatiratian missions was used to effect regime removal (we can’t say regime change because since well before the fall of Gadaffi there has not been a regime in Tripoli.)

No doubt Assad’s treatment of in Syria is and has always been brutal and inhuman but is military intervention the best option to stop the killing.

One thing western leaders have not thought of trying yet is to say to the rebels, “Look, we’re not going to help you, the UN charter forbids foreign powers taking sides in civil conflicts.

If you want the government militia to stop killing your guys, why not stop shooting and throwing bombs at them.”

Simples.

United Against Sanity

Boggart Blog like to focus on the absurdity rather than the tragedy of the human condition. Therefore we have had little to say about the unpleasantness in North Africa and the middle east, even though it has been going on for three months.

Likewise we have ignored the kerfuffle in Ivory Coast. There President Gbagbo who lost an election refused to step down, saying the other lot were cheats. In the best tradition of kindergarden politics they stood face to face yelling “I’m not a cheat, youre a cheat” at easch other for a while and then decided to sort it out by having a fight.

If only Harry Hill were head on the United Nations instead of Ming Mong Moon we could cut the crap and get to the fight in a fraction of the time.

Recently however things have taken a sininter turn when Ming Mong Moon, chief noodle maker to the New World Order, sanctioned militaty support for rebels in both Libya and Ivory Coast.

It is of course completely against the UN charter to take sides in a civil war, a fact not missed by the Russians and Chinese.

Perhaps it is just conincidence that since UN troops and aircraft started supporting the rebels, the regimes they were trying to overthrow have got off the backfoot and seized the initiative.

Obviously if you are trying to overthrow a tyrannical regime or simply replace it with another tyrannical regime, the last people you need on your side are the United Nations.