Update(1458ET): A huge escalation from Iran-linked militants, just after international headlines reported Israel’s military has been given the “green light” to enter Gaza:
According to CNN, a U.S. Navy vessel operating in the Middle East region intercepted multiple missiles launched from Yemen. A U.S. official says the missiles were launched from the Iran-backed Houthi militant group.
According to more from ABC’s senior Pentagon correspondent, US officials confirm to ABC “the destroyer USS Carney shot down multiple Houthi missiles last night. They were NOT aimed at the ship, but headed in a northerly direction.” There’s speculation that they may have been fired toward Israel in solidarity with Gaza. Israel media is reporting:
Israel believes that the missiles launched from Yemen and intercepted by a US warship today were aimed at Israel – Channel 13
The USS Carney (DDG-64) a Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer with the U.S. Navy had 3 Missiles launched at it earlier today while in the Red Sea off the Coast of Yemen with all Missiles being Intercepted; the Missiles are believed to have been launched by the “Houthi” Terrorist Group… pic.twitter.com/5pJ5KPXTrF
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 19, 2023
Oil surged as the report hit headlines…
According to geopolitical analyst Jason Brodsky, this means Iranian-backed ‘resistance’ movements are achieving “unification of the fronts: first Gaza, then skirmishes from Hezbollah, Iraq, Syria, now Yemen.”
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With the whole region still on edge due to fast moving events in Gaza and on the Lebanese border, US troops in Syria have again come under attack, this time by drones which may have caused injuries.
Drones were sent, allegedly by “Iran-linked” paramilitary groups, against an oil facility in eastern Syria housing American troops, as well as against a US military outpost in the southern desert near Iraq.
Al-Tanf base, which is the Pentagon’s lone outpost in the south along the Iraq border, was the separate base that came under attack, per a Beirut-based news source:
According to informed sources who spoke with Al-Mayadeen, three drones were able to fly above the Al-Tanf base at the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border and launch several successful airstrikes.
“The attack led to a major alert within [Al-Tanf], with continuous flights of military aircraft and helicopters in the area,” Al-Mayadeen reported.
Sources within the US-led coalition that spoke with Iraq’s Shafaq News on Wednesday claimed that the occupation forces “successfully intercepted and downed two of the drones, but the third managed to target the base.”
The US occupation base at Conoco oil field in Deir Ezzor governorate was also hit by multiple rockets.
As of Thursday Israel’s military has reportedly been given the “green light” to enter Gaza…
The Israeli military has a “green light” to move into Gaza whenever it’s ready, a member of the country’s security cabinet told ABC News.
Hostages and civilian casualties will be secondary to destroying Hamas, Economy Minister Nir Barakat told ABC News, “even if it takes a year.”
And more dire threats from Israeli officials:
Asked about the miles of tunnels Hamas has built under Gaza, he said they’d become the “world’s biggest cemetery.” Hamas has claimed to be holding some or all of the 203 Israeli hostages it’s taken within that vast network.
“We shall do all efforts to bring our hostages, to bring our hostages [back] alive…” he said, but the “first and last priority” is destroying Hamas.
BREAKING: ABC News reports that Israel’s Economy Minister says hostages and civilian casualties will be secondary to the priority of destroying Hamas, adding that its tunnel network will become the ‘world’s biggest cemetery’.
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) October 19, 2023
In the overnight hours, exchanges of fire between the Syrian Army or paramilitaries and Israel were observed in the south. “Sounds of explosions rang out in the province of Quneitra after an Israeli strike against a Syrian army position,” said a regional monitor.
The IDF has also in the last several hours affirmed it is striking against “terrorist positions” of Hezbollah in the region.
Some regional correspondents have said missiles were launched against US bases in Syria as well…
‘Really disturbing reports about missile attacks on American troops in Syria’
GB News Reporter, Charlie Peters, says that ‘if a US solider is killed in this conflict’ then this could ‘escalate to another level’. pic.twitter.com/T6f5MJPkJ8
— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 19, 2023
The US military has confirmed its bases in Syria have come under attack, after the day prior US positions in Iraq were attacked as well. Casualties or officials details have remained unclear.
Targeting American troops in Syria and Iraq shows just how dangerous things could rapidly get for Pentagon forces in the region. If Hezbollah and Israel enter full war along the border, these American bases would likely suffer much bigger attacks.
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**Really disturbing reports about missile attacks on
Russian troops in Ukraine’** Fixed it.
Is the media really that dense to not see the similarity?
The media are fully aware and complicit, not dense.
Plenty of both, I think.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1715092583745982829?s=20
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Nah, it’s still there.
Heh.
I was trying to embed to code for the X post but, it didn’t work.
I’d kill to understand that stuff.
Brewer, do the following:
1) Go to the Tweet
2) Click the 3 dots in the top right corner of the tweet
3) From the menu options that appear choose the “embed post” option – a new screen appears
4) Click the “copy code” button
5) Paste the copied code in the TBP comment box
NB: This particular tweet had an update as shown underneath it when you click the tweet linked above in your first comment. You have to go to the latest post in order to get the “embed post” option in the menu options list.
I actually did that but, the mistake I apparently made was selecting the ‘code’ option in the text editor on TBP comments text box.
Thanks for the info!
this is so gay
Oil is now at $90 bbl. It could easily double if this thing does not end soon. With the US and Israel hell bent on further hostilities, you may want to fill up your gas cans now. We will probably now see gas go to $8 to $10.
About 9 or 10 years ago oil was about 147.00 a barrel and gas was cheaper than today. Why?
In 2009, when oil hit 147 the average price of gas was 4.10, today it is about 3.50. The only reason it was that low back then was that it spiked and dropped quickly. I do not think this spike will end quickly, and we will probably have supply issues which will encourage gouging….
Why are they shooting down missiles that aren’t threatening them and did they really shoot them down? Are they trying to start something? If the reports out of Ukraine are true they couldn’t hit the side of a barn.
That’s a dilemma. You need cheap oil to fight wars. For everybody beating the WW3 war drum reality is going to sink in soon. The only reason WW1 and WW2 happen was because of cheap oil. The US strategic reserve Trump built up when oil was cheap is now depleted. No cheap oil, no world war. The war profiteers are about to take heavy losses.
As a side note, the 10YR Treasury is hovering right below 5% and it looks like a new batch of T-bills are about to become worthless.
Welcome to the US bankruptcy era.
Oil is still cheap compared to inflation, but it is irrelevant. The price doesn’t matter in a major war except as a marker.
Steph, T-bills have the shortest terms (a year or <) with interest rate risk, no interest payments, low returns . . in other words like, what idiots invest in.
10 yr T-notes are the benchmark, not Treasury bills
The “idiots” are now making 5.5% interest and keeping their money semi liquid in a fast rising interest rate environment….. This while the so called “smart money” are invested in overpriced equities, in zombie companies, and 30yr notes paying 1%……
interest is usury
This is correct, except the part about T bills being worthless.
Here is the situation. The government is borrowing up all the available liquidity which is killing businesses having to pay higher and higher rates. 30% of all businesses are zombie companies which can only function with borrowed money at cheap interest. In addition the consumer is in big trouble with a third of all credit card holders maxing out their cards monthly.
Interest rates for consumer loans and credit cards is spiking, and the US consumers are now spending 200 billion a year just in interest rates.
That is 200 billion a year, that is sucked out of the economy, and cannot be spent on goods and services.
This is all leading to major economic recession, and massive bankruptcies among both business and consumers.
Bankruptcy translates to debt default, and debt default translates to money destruction.
Between the government dominating the credit markets sucking up all the liquidity, and debt default destroying money at a astronomical rate the result will be a massive cash shortage. The crash in asset markets will drive this shortage even faster as home values and stock values plummet, money will simply disappear. We are facing the same situation as the Great Depression when a huge percentage of the countries money simply disappeared due to massive drops in asset values and debt default.
Because money follows the same laws of supply and demand as everything else, this will make money much more valuable, and because the government has the power to confiscate citizens wealth, the government’s debt will always be paid making T bills a safe investment when all else will be in chaos.
Not that I don’t trust them, but proof?
Channeling Rodney King can’t we just work together?
Canned Heat also did a short ditty naned “Sic ‘Em Pigs” that trashed the LAPD.
All about getting those clicks.
These cocksuckers had this shit planned for years. Of course the sleepy masses buy every bit of it.
Which ones of these didn’t we rubblize yet… which are on deck now?
The plan was 7 countries in 5 years, this has run long. Re-watching this is fascinating from a retrospective and its all still solid today.
You mean the US troops illegally in Syria?
AND, To think.
It’s almost time for frost to kill the Orange harvest and drive up Juice prices, Juan Valdez doing something funky with Conchita, driving up the price of Coffee, AND 🤣 (New One!) a RICE Shortage.
Long ago they used to be scared of us. Then the leftists got all smoochie smoochie with them. Now after Afghanistan and Ukraine as the most recent examples of leftist fecklessness and Vietnam before that they know… we got nothing. Great weapons, lots of people under arms, absolutely no will or leadership. A nation as a bloated old ex tough guy talking out his ass.
Bin Ladin is reputed to have said ‘you love Coca Cola, we love death’. Islam is an enemy of all humankind including and especially its adherents.
Debt unpayable requires a reset. Bankers at the highest levels world wide require servicing and politicians world wide will service them… with the blood of innocents wherever they may be found.
They’ve arranged things here such that voting will not affect the course of our overlords policies. Conscription will resume, to be ‘equitable’ women will be included.
This reset will change everything, everything but who rules and who is ruled. All the masks are coming off and we’ll soon enough find out what the fruit of the overlords plans may be.
Foreplay is pretty well over, the tip is in, things should be heating up quickly now.