The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen reportedly hit Saudi Arabia’s east/west pipeline with drones. President Trump did not strike the Houthi’s. Despite knowing oil prices would jump, President Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmon to approach the issue carefully.
Reuters, citing an Axios report based on two US officials, said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Trump twice on Thursday and pressed for military action. Trump rejected the request, according to the report.
Why would President Trump ‘not’ strike back against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, knowing the drone attack on the Saudi pipeline would only worsen the oil issue? Well, you won’t read this anywhere else…. However, if Saudi Arabia shut down the east/west pipeline for a while (they just did), then the oil flowing to the Red Sea that ends up in Europe would be halted (it just was).
Think about it. All of a sudden Europe cannot get oil from Mohammed bin Salmon. So, how does that change the dynamic of President Trump’s desired leverage toward Europe in his approach to bringing Russian oil back into the market.
I hope everyone can see the dynamic. All of a sudden that Russian oil Europe hates so much, turns into dependency leverage against EU antagonisms against solving the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This is not happening accidentally.
Oil Price News – Saudi Aramco has canceled or delayed crude deliveries to European refiners after the shutdown of the kingdom’s East-West pipeline cut into one of its remaining routes around the Strait of Hormuz.
At least three European refiners have had late-September cargoes canceled or pushed as far out as November, according to market sources cited by Argus. Two more expect notices covering September supplies.
The 7-million-bpd East-West pipeline has been offline since a September 10 attack. The pipeline carries crude from eastern Saudi oil fields to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, bypassing Hormuz.
One market source told Argus that every Saudi cargo scheduled for the final 10 days of September could be at risk. The same source estimated that Yanbu had roughly five days of crude inventories remaining. Argus could not independently confirm that estimate, and Aramco declined to comment.
In August, Bloomberg had reported that Aramco would supply full contractual crude volumes to at least three European refiners for September.
But no Saudi crude has departed Yanbu since September 11, according to Vortexa data cited by Argus. (read more)
Essentially, the Houthi “attack” on the Saudi pipeline just shut down oil going to Europe.
Europe needs oil. This is not an optional dynamic.
Russia has the oil that Europe now desperately needs.
Suddenly, the geopolitical dynamic has shifted, as an outcome of the economic/energy dynamic shifting, at a very opportune time for President Trump to hold optimal leverage to get Europe to reconsider their opposition to a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire.
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Are you sure it was the Houthi’s who hit the pipeline?
“Are you sure it was the Houthi’s who hit the pipeline?” No, I am not. Just like Nordstream 2. I don’t even know the “Houthi’s” exist except on paper.
I agree. I only believe in ONE single group. I know, deep in my heart, there are Who’s down in Whoville.
Terrorists crave publicity and I have never seen “Houthis”.
“Who’s down in Whoville.”
Great response!
BLESSINGS
I thought who was on second .
Who is on First…
Well Horton heard a who.
THIRD BASE! 😂
Why don’t the Russians ban all energy sales to NATO members. Just a thought.
It’s a good thought
they need the money?
I don’t believe we can be sure about anything involving governments.
COVID taught us: It is the governments of the world against the people of the world.
The Houtis are quite real, they are an arm of the IRGC the same as Hesbollah. Iran has been supplying weapons to them for a long time. They are a squalid group of sandel wearing goat hurders who are extremely violent.
Same opening line as your quote…
At this point I don’t even believe the story that “The Houthis hit the pipeline”
The effects of this story all accrue to the US and Trump. Now he can restrict middle distillate exports, support Russia cutting off Europe, etc
How do you stop a war that was planned? Deprive the war mongers the tools to wage war
What’s France going to do? Nuke someone if we don’t sell them diesel?
Tom Luongo is great. I watch him on “Rich Does Politics,” which is on Rumble and You Tube. I only watch Rumble.
Killer ads on YouTube that can run 20- to -45 minutes each. I can’t handle it anymore. Rumble is my place, if possible.
I don’t get ads of ANY KIND… EVER. I run Brave software and downloaded a free ad blocker. In all the years I’ve been running this, I’ve never seen hide nor hare of an ad of any kind.
I love that channel, AND Tommy’s Podcast as well. Keeps me sane. Plus, love Gen. Holt.
“Europe has lost substantial diesel and jet-fuel supply from the Middle East, while ongoing tensions in Eastern Europe have disrupted output at several major Russian refineries and prompted Moscow to restrict fuel exports.”🤷🏻♂️
Sept 16 (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Wednesday as reports that Saudi Arabia was offering additional crude cargoes via Oman eased concerns about the scale of Middle East supply disruptions, while European diesel prices hovered near a record high.
Saudi Arabia is offering more loadings of crude oil to Asian refiners via ship-to-ship transfer off Oman’s Sohar port after drone attacks damaged its key oil pipeline to the Red Sea, people familiar with the matter said.
brother and SIL in Colica, Italy vacationing on Como. Diesel is 2.16 euro/litre = $9.44/gallon
Brilliant.
Does or did
the price that eee uuu pays, or paid, for importing me oil
also
include an agreement to import ( via open border and double stds on laws )
of illegal immigrants?
hmm..
I do not know
People know
The EU does what the globalists’ NWO agenda tells ’em to:
1) Depopulate native Western Christian culture.
2) Shift manufacturing and technology to China’s slave labor system.
3) Cripple and loot what’s left through green energy and third world immigration
In the meantime, other countries wiil sell ’em oil for their transition
The problem could be particularly acute for Europe🤣, which is simultaneously facing another supply disruption in Libya.
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Tuesday that production and operations had been halted at the Hamada and Al-Tahara fields and the NC5 station after members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard forcibly closed a valve on the main Hamada-Zawiya pipeline. The closure triggered a sudden pressure increase at the Tahara connection point and forced all three sites offline.
The NOC warned that it could declare force majeure if the valve remains closed or if forced shutdowns spread to other fields, saying prolonged disruptions would damage Libya’s economy and its reputation as a reliable energy supplier.
Anyone see Hitlery in the vicinity?
No, there was however the sighting of that exotic dancer from the Nord stream diving crew.
Isn’t the timing amazing.
Russia loaded its first tanker out of its new port on the Arctic just last week.
Can you imagine the angst of the left when the prices drop, right on schedule?
Do you think they realize yet that Trump is about to unleash the crude?
Oh, and where’s that tariff free Brazilian beef?
I am told that there are no buyers for the imported beef.
Just because the tariffs were lifted does not mean sales will happen.
You mean there are no buyers … yet.
There are always buyers.
not me, I’ll wait for the Black Angus
I’ve a freezer full of locally raised black baldy… Nummy nummy.
Beleive it or not, stationed 6 years in Germany and no US beef. Argentinian beef was the main source. It was damn good. Tasted like the steaks my folks grilled back in the ’70s back before all the steroids, HGH, and other crap they pump cows with today. Try i, it’s very tasty.
Uruguayan beef is even a step up from that!
I’m in the business. That beef is not coming to grocery stores. It’s intended for McD, BK, Wendy’s, etc. But they only like fine textured beef, (pink slime), so maybe there aren’t any buyers.
For ground beef? It matters not. 35 years a butcher.
“WINTER IS COMING!”
Now get rid of that little parasite Zalenskyy.
The poisonous gnome zed seems untouchable like dear dr. fauxi.
The day is coming.
President Trump is really quite amazing. Too bad he doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
“Sorry it took so long – Complicated business”
President Trump is brilliant and his cabinet working are doing a fantastic job.
10 layer chess
MAGA
Agreed. However, as mentioned by Sundance, you won’t hear or see any of this in the MSM. Or, if you do, it will be a twisted propagandized version that will in no way reveal the truth of the situation and its real implications. Thus, the majority of the sheeple will just continue to quietly graze.
Folks, Turn Off your TV. If it is on TV, it is propaganda. Find your trusted sources and stick with them.
Trump long ago knew that holding people, groups, or nations accountable will solve many problems, often simultaneously. Besides sticking it to Europe, ask who should be dealing with the Houthis? Prince, that’s your job.
President Trump is a master! He seems to see the whole world and the dynamics each and every move he takes, and how it will positively affect the world….and most importantly…the United States and US.
I trust him….and his plan…..it’s the best we have had or seen in generations and it’s working!
And it would seem…..the whole world was against us….and our President.
It didn’t matter…..there’s a mission, an agenda, and is being implemented with and through intention…..the results are and will be awesome!
I’m no expert on AI but if this comment is not AI generated I don’t know what else could be. The wording, the punctuation, etc.
Nobody writes like that!
Could be. ChatGPT tends to place comma’s right before the ‘and’ term.
Grammerly always wants to place a comma there also. I wish I could turn it off.
It’s the Oxford comma and I use it when there is more than one clause. To me, it sets that idea apart from the rest of the sentence more clearly.
I ALWAYS use the Oxford comma, excellent for clarity.
I’ve been in the EU countries this summer and that part of the worlds ordinary people support President Trumps actions 100%
Well,,whadda ya know, the EU weenies (U.K., France, Germany) who want so much to go to war against Russia are now mendicants as they plead for their oil. How’s that green energy thing been working for you?
Four dimensional chess, and how will the MSM portray this? Blame President Trump…incoming!
Please sir, may we have some more?
I have an idea tell Saudi Arabia to send their own troops down to the tip of their desert and take care of the Houthis.
If not the Houthis, someone else. Remember, they’ve six ways from Sunday.
And their Iranian advisors.
Wow. The clock is ticking ⏳ the hourglass is winding down.
Europe can rely on solar panels under cloudy skies… and windmills that do not rotate.
City of london banking cartel used the sanctioned iranian oil as collateral for the yen carry trade — up until Bessent sold euros to buy yen and trump shut off the supply of sanction iranian oil! in short, without $150 – $200 per barrel for oil they lose biggly on the wrong side of their bets!
Because I come to the CTH daily, some of us have been carefully watching the Master Class on Dot Connecting and learning from the Master himself.
I get giddy and proud when I get an A+ on the test.
Thank You Sundance !
Iran is not in charge of the Houthi’s, it’s very clear in the behavior of the Saudi Prince’s reaction.
Tea and crumpets, anyone? Or would you prefer European champagne and tartare, served by Spooks?
“Iran is not in charge of the Houthi’s”
yup. It’s the spooks
………………………………………………………………
Who’s Really in Charge in Iran?
“The turmoil began after Iranian forces attacked three commercial vessels in the Strait overnight July 6-7, including a Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker, while Iran’s President Pezeshkian was in neighboring Iraq.
An enraged Pezeshkian called General Vahidi (commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard) and demanded answers.
Vahidi told the president that he had neither authorized the attack nor known about it beforehand, while the Supreme National Security Council was also unaware of the operation.
Subsequent investigations traced the decision to attack the commercial vessels to Hossein Taeb, a powerful intelligence figure who opposed the agreement with Washington. Iranian analyst Alireza Namvar Haghighi said the operation was intended to destroy the memorandum of understanding with President Donald Trump”
https://ifapray.org/blog/whos-really-in-charge-of-iran/
It’s a pretty clever move by Trump but we see that the upper echelon of society could care less if the normies suffer.
In fact they will use this for maximum pain while blaming Trump.
All the while the sheeple will continue to howl that it’s all Trumps fault.
To those who control the gold, we are but cattle.
Less
The gold is secondary. Controlling the guns is the control point.
They proved they do not care if the normies suffer during the Wuhan Flu. Close churches, schools, and small stores. Push shots that kill. We are not far behind if we do not win in November. The Leftists will catch us up to the EU and UK. Vote like you life depends on it.
Not to mention imploding two skyscrapers with almost 3 thousand innocent American civilians in them.
Thank you for your attention to this very important matter! :):)
Yes, I expect it was the Houthis, but the pipeline wasn’t adequately protected.
Explain how to protect intermediate pumping stations sitting in the desert.
The same way you protect anything in the desert.
The Saudis were likely relying on us to do the protecting.
Yup. And “we” made sure the coast was clear.
I know we often joke about President Trump playing 4D chess, but this time, he really is playing 4D chess!
He always was. This time his brought his own board to the game.
If I remember correctly, didn’t Trump forego the usual incoming president briefing ( provided by the intelligence committe) for his second term? And with Trump doing that, wasn’t the whole world going to blow up, or something to that effect. That got the IC’s panties in a wad, and I’m sure they’re still in a bunch.
They haven’t yet figured out his style of play.
Ok, so why doesn’t President Trump just remove all American support for Ukraine’s military? Stop the money, halt all weapons and munitions shipments, shut down targeting support ? Why is this supposed 5D chess move even necessary? The US could also lift all of its sanctions against Russian petroleum products.
Congress is the entity sending the US Dollars to Ukraine, against the will of the American People but for the will of the IC.
Where have you been the last few years. Trump is not a king. Do you remember Z-nut speaking to the assembled congress. Trump has to walk a fine line, Z-nut has a lot of support from the legislature.
Too bad the Ukrainian lobbyists who bribe our politicians do not get lots of exposure.
I gotta believe he is doing all that they cannot stop him from doing.
Notice London and the EU had to seize Russian funds to keep the cash flowing?
Notice the ground war became a drone war?
Notice NATO leaders touting they can win a war with Russia without the US?
Notice the precise bombing of a secret Ukrainian arms depot?
Notice that the EU will soon have to buy Russian oil?
Russia will not sell Europe and petroleum products until the EU pays back the Russian funds. Ouchies.
Not looking good for the Nazis in Ukraine. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a major Russian offensive in the next few days. They’ve just about run out of boys to kidnap and now they’re going to have send them to their death on foot.
Latter days
Z bought 150,000 winter Women’s Uniforms?
I believe Putin will hold off if he sees that Trump is out maneuvering the deepstate.
Much has been said of DJT’s 4-D chess prowess. IMHO, he is simply better at analyzing 2nd, 3rd and 4th order ramifications of decisions. He also knows that there are more powerful tools in his toolbox, than bombs and bullets. Look at all of the many conflicts that he has resolved thus far, if you need further convincing.
When all you have (or perceive that you have) is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. This is why the John McCain wing of the Republican party reflexively reaches for the bombs and bullets. Sadly, the Democrat party is not immune from this affliction, either. It’s shallow thinking like this that brought us the escalation in Vietnam (with no clear plan, nor desire to win), the bombing in Serbia, ground operations in Somalia, Iraq (the occupation / nation building), operations in Libya, Afghanistan (the occupation / nation building) and etc., not to mention all of the destabilization operations in North Africa and the Middle East, empowering the Muslim Brotherhood, thereby planting the seeds which will ensure future conflicts.
In contrast, DJT seldom prescribes boots on the ground and military action, in general is also seldom used, except where necessary. In fact, the carrot to stick ration is highly biased towards negotiation and carrots. And, more times than not, the carrots win out, with minimal causalities on both sides.
It could also encourage the UK to open up the North Sea oil fields and supply Europe.
Don’t forget that Norway is also sitting on allot of oil as well.
Then there is Canadian Oil from the new “associate member of the EU”.
Problem for these answers to the the oil shortage is TIME needed to get the answers to the points of delivery at the “gas stations”, home fuel bunkers and power stations vs the head winds of taxes and regulations associated with the EU Green New Deal policy.
Then again, EU Governments had NO qualms with allowing their Green New Deal causing 1,000’s of EU citizens to die and/or suffer medical issues this past summer due to heat … why would the EU Governments feel any different about THEIR SERFS and peasants suffering in winter.
Heck we have State Governments, DC Politicians and Federal Courts as well as their Financial Puppet Masters who have the exact same feeling toward US citizens with respect to costs and suffering.
Also, for those who who still think economic fundamentals are driving prices at the pump in the US ….
Just like that headlines wag up and down in sentiment, yesterday at 10 different outlets… within a day prices at the pump wagged DOWN 10-15 cents with neutral morning headlines and with the headline changes to negative wagged right back UP the very same day, within 4 hours.
It is going to be a very cold winter in Europe.
Maybe Europe will become trump country and turn all Maga
Führer Van Der Crazy has given the state of the EU address.
https://www.rt.com/news/645795-leyen-state-of-the-union-address/
From the article:
In the presence of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Bank of England chief and a poster-boy for anti-Trump posturing, von der Leyen unilaterally announced that Canada would be granted ‘Associate Membership’ – a status without any legal definition.
Key calls by the Führer include:
1) A new security architecture resembling NATO’s article 4 that extends beyond the EU to include the UK, Canada and Ukraine
2) Further militarization of the EU and unilateral diversion of unused loan funding to Kiev
3) A bloc-wide group focusing on stockpiling critical minerals and rare earth materials
4) Expansion of the EU staff in Brussels
5) Rebooting nuclear power generation, despite having overseen the shutdown of the industry
6) Radical investment in AI and the required energy grid to support it
7) An EU kids act to restrict access to social media and more censorship by her own online team
There is a video in the article if anyone wants to watch it.
The article provides a good synopsis.
Will link a related article in the reply.
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Related article:
https://www.rt.com/news/645775-eu-leyen-state-union/
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Führerette Van Der Crazy you mean. /s
Ursula needs to be subjected to the poetry of Paula Nancy Wellstone Jennings.
If she’s not available, Vogon poetry will suffice. ( hat tip: Hithchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
Related article:
https://www.rt.com/news/645784-germany-secretive-unit-arms-kiev/
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If the EU thinks they’re getting oil out of Canada because of the US tariffs… they are sadly mistaken. Canada has nixed pipelines.
(DD Geopolitics-XPlatform)
Night before last:
Libya Just Lost Three Oil Fields Overnight
Libya’s National Oil Corp says output has been halted at the Hamada, Al-Tahara and NC5 (Station 5) fields after a group from the Petroleum Facilities Guard forcibly shut the Hamada-Zawiya pipeline valve,
Libya is not some peripheral supplier, it provided over 9% of the EU’s crude oil imports last year, with Italy, Germany and Spain among its biggest customers.
Europe is watching another major source of crude come under pressure at exactly the wrong time.
The “squeeze” is on
Sundance just hit the nail on the head. It’s all about finishing the war in Ukraine.
Is it a coincidence that oil is down 4% today?
I am an amateur when it comes to understanding all the machinations and implications of the clashing of the Titans, but it would seem that with the Eurotards chomping at the bit to escalate the Russia/Ukraine war into WWIII and trying to drag the US into footing the bill/ sending troops, that this move by the Saudis might make them pause and reconsider.
If President Trump is behind this, perhaps he knows this is a way he can try to save the world from a nuclear holocaust, which is the inherent risk of a world war with nuclear-armed superpowers. In their bombastic grandiosity, this is an inconvenient fact the Eurotards and war mongers in DC seem to want to ignore.
Sunni v Shia civil war that has been going on for decades with the Houthi and Saudi’s Arabia on opposite sides . This is a play to make Saudi’s Arabia the winner of that civil war and control of all the Middle East Muslim countries….Turkey will still control Eastern European Muslim countries and they are bitter enemies of Saudis Arabia, same Sunni Shia civil war. Saudi’s Arabia is much more stable and cooperative with the world community and would be better than anyone else to lead the Muslims from an American and Israeli point of view, they don’t want to rule and ruin the world like the other side in the Muslim civil war
Finland’s leftist solution to the invader issue…
Stupid – but hilarious.
I’m sure that will make an impression with the rapists bringing their brand of Diversity to Europe.
They are beginning to understand that defeating Russia isn’t likely and thus their natural resources aren’t available. Plan B – steal all the natural resources of Canada…one of Carney’s tasks is to do just that – hand them over to his EU masters.
Take the natural resources from Canada.
Ship the skilled, talented, and educated Canadians to the EU to work in the new industries and the budding EU military.
Send replacement migrants from the EU to Canada.
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I’m really not sure about much of anything for that matter. To think that Trump is a master of chess. He just can’t help it. 🙂
My comment in response to this piece inspired me to write a just-published blog posting on the American Thinker website. Here’s the link:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/the-houthis-inadvertently-helped-the-us-and-israel/
Very informative piece. Especially the bit about how the volume of tankers is more than being reported because the ships are turning off their transponders in order to transit without giving Iran any help in finding them.
I have 2 questions if you are so inclined to respond;
1) Why isn’t the US being more public about the actual volume of oil coming out of the Gulf in ships?
2) Why won’t Saudi take military action against the Houtis? It’s not like they don’t have a very large and modern Air Force and Army………….
Thanks.
1. The Trump administration is being public. Both Vance and, I think it was the energy secretary, said this week that the volume of oil flowing is more than half of the pre-war volume. One of them said about 2/3, and that despite the fact that an increasing amount of oil is flowing out by pipeline.
2. It would take someone who knows more about Saudi Arabia than me to answer your second question about Saudi military weakness. I read somewhere that their army is incompetent, with all the generalships held by Saudi princes. That could be why they are trying to fight back almost solely through the air and through their Yemenite proxies.
The USA needs to defeat Iran and its allies.
Too much talking going on.
Too many claims of pending deals.
Are you losing the war, or have you already lost it?
The USA has the same problem with Iran that Russia has with Ukraine.
It is taking too long.
AI centres are big fat targets
Iran spent $1 million to wipe out $30 billion in data center plans, and take down Amazon in the ME
Sun Tzu.
Check out Tom Loungo’s Geo politics. I believe they are in line with this site. https://www.patreon.com/GoldGoatsNGuns/posts/morning-9-16-on-169711768?utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&post_id=169711768&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTI6YjU0MmUzNDctYWVkMS00M2U2LWFjMWYtNjY4NTNjZDI2YzYxIiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTY5NzExNzY4LCJwYXRyb25faWQiOjkxODQ2MDIwfQ.XiCj0Xh3lm6agnGpXQusezMsI82VcrGiQOsU7x9qwkI&utm_id=f7157572-be95-4f8d-9391-30a28e1db739&utm_medium=email
European oil refiner racing to replace Saudi oil as Houthis attack infrastructure: Report
https://justthenews.com/government/security/european-oil-refiner-racing-replace-saudi-oil-houthis-attack-infrastructure
Humm..what’s a Houthi..? Asking for my cousin …
I’m not sure of their origin, but they never seem to run out of Houtis. This thing has been going on now since before Obummer was in office.
Was the pipeline really hit? lol
Hopefully this will be a way to get Europe to get off of their asses and take an active role is defeating Iran the terrorists that Iran supports.
Europe likes to play like they are always taking the moral high ground, but now it’s their ox that is being gored.