going for, and knowing how it all fits, was a warning not heeded by the empire so why should we hold back one might say; 

 

Eight of the ten largest desalination plants on earth sit on the Arabian Peninsula coast. Together the Gulf states account for roughly sixty percent of global desalination capacity. A hundred million people drink what these facilities manufacture from seawater every single day. Kuwait gets ninety percent of its drinking water from desalination. Oman eighty-six. Saudi Arabia seventy. Without these plants, the most powerful petroleum states on earth become uninhabitable within days. Not weeks but days.

A leaked 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable concluded that Riyadh “would have to evacuate within a week” if the Jubail desalination plant or its associated infrastructure were seriously damaged. That was 2008. The population is larger now. The consumption is higher. The alternative freshwater sources remain exactly zero.

On March 2, Iranian strikes on Dubai’s Jebel Ali port landed roughly twelve miles from one of the world’s largest desalination complexes — a facility producing more than 160 billion gallons of the city’s water each year. The Fujairah power and water complex took damage. Kuwait’s Doha West desalination plant took damage. Neither was destroyed. Both appeared to be collateral — nearby port attacks, interceptor debris...........more.............