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nothing but state message

poor baby saudis and oh by the way this will magically cause a shortage in the US because reasons

If you are in N America and have any sort of energy shortage it is because you made making energy illegal (So Canada and California basically)

but then again it was CBS, they're not even a big player

all over the media, the narrative has already been crafted

"Saudi Arabia victim, Iran unprovoked perpetrator, Houthi rebels? Never heard of them. Yemen? Where's that, I don't have a map."

Why not just let Saudi Arabia hire American mercenaries?

Their own troops can't fight for shit regardless of how well equipped they are.

as repulsive as that sounds, it does square better than pimping the US military around for them

though private companies could arguably be easier to hold to account for war crimes, so they might find them innefficient

on the topic though, when have the saudi military exercized force against anyone but their own people

have they ever had an proper war?

don't think so.

Well I mean Iran probably is behind it. Iran and SA have been fighting a proxy war for a while. Targeting each other's oil infrastructure is just smart. It's the only thing either of them have that outside powers want. And I mean it's not like Iran is any less of a soft target there. You can take Kharg Island out with a precocious Cub Scout Troop....

But beyond their lack of direct experience, there's this: <https://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars>

was anyone killed during this attack on oil facilities?

Well it would be a miracle if a refinery fire of that size had no casualties.

literally page searching "kill" "dead" "deaths" on news about it, finding nothing

"casualites" similarly not mentioned

so yet more lethal force threatened for what amounts to a big fireworks display

Gonna start offering US politicians a trip to visit the memorial of one Rudolf Anderson Jr.

and explain to his headstone why we should go to war over zero loss of life when the world didn't end over his

for those unaware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Anderson

`The only person killed by enemy fire during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Anderson died when his U-2 spy aircraft was shot down over Cuba.` is the end of that sentence.

Thank you.

np, I'm accommodating like that

Oh I doubt we're going to war over it. This is just the new normal. Basically we don't give a shit if the Saudis and Persians decide to have a bloody knife fight and so they are going to get to it. Mostly that affects Asian supply and gives an opportunity for us to enter that market.

Does seem to be a bit more leverage on China though them being the world's largest oil importer and all........

you underestimate the billions the Saudis have funneled into trump's hotels

but the China angle does give some comfort, lets go with that

Uh, it ain't just Trump the Saudis have been funding. Far from it, in fact.

oh congress has saudi cum all over their lips, no doubt

IIRC, Shillary and the Bushes (especially the Bushes) were buddy-buddy with them.

Yeah but the American people are tired of war

Indeed we are.

save for Rand Paul and some democrats too socialist to bother with foreign policy

But it does make me giggle a little, when people complain about the Saudis shoving money up someone's ass.

We were freindly with them when we *weren't* the largest petroleum exporter on the planet.......

I can't wait for the USA to fall back into isolationism and disappear from the world stage.

They shove money up ***everysone's*** asses.

They’d pragmatingly vote for war to get people to want change