its been funny watching the talking heads speaking about the 'act of war' in the attacks on the saudi oil facilities. its not as if the saudi's have been minding their own business any more than the empire has been an innocent. here is an exploration of some factors involved;

The Mideast has its own variety of crazy humor.  The Saudis have been blasting and bombing wretched Yemen, one of this world’s poorest nations, since 2015.

These US-supported attacks and a naval blockade of Yemen imposed by Saudi Arabia and its sidekick ally, the United Arab Emirates, have caused mass starvation.  No one knows how many Yemenis have died or are currently starving.  Estimates run from 250,000 to one million.

The black humor?  The Saudis just claimed they were victims of Iranian `aggression’ this past week after the kingdom’s leading oil treatment facility at Abqaiq was hit by a flight of armed drones or cruise missiles.  The usual American militarists, now led by State Secretary Mike Pompeo after the demented warmonger, John Bolton, was finally fired, are calling for military retaliation against Iran even though the attack was claimed by Yemen’s Shia Houthi movement.This drama came at roughly the same time that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally of US president Donald Trump, vowed to annex Palestine’s entire Jordan Valley if elected.  Not a peep of protest came from the US, which recently blessed Netanyahu’s annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights while scourging Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, for annexing Crimea – a Russian possession for over 300 years.

I studied US photos of the damaged Saudi oil installations.  Its oil tanks appear to be precisely hit at the same place.  After the attack, the Saudis claimed half of their oil production was knocked out; but a day later, they vowed production would be resumed within a week.  Parts of so-called drones were shown that appeared way beyond the technological capabilities of Yemen or even Iran.  The missiles may have been supplied by Ukraine.

The Saudis, like their patron in Washington, have a poor record for truthfulness.  Remember the Saudi denials about the murder of journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi?  More important, we have been waiting for more false flag attacks in the Gulf designed to justify a US attack on Iran...........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/09/eric-margolis/the-saudis-get-a-taste-of-their-own-medicine/