Submitted by Dirtperson Steve
Guest Post by Stop Shouting’s Blog
America’s continued allegiance to Zionist Israel over its own interests comes with huge costs
1) Iraq announced today at a press conference that it was ending the presence of the international coalition in Iraq.
Iraq ends international coalition presence in country
2) Prior to this, Iraq had begun its de-dollarization process, and it will be illegal to complete transactions or withdrawals in $USD anywhere in Iraq, effective January 1, 2024, citing “countering terrorism” as the reason.
Iraq De-Dollarization
3) It was announced in Nov 2023 Russia took control of Iraq’s largest oil discovery in 20 years, and Iraq announced its intention to partner with Russia, China & Iran for further management and/or discovery of oil reserves in country.
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4) The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia declined to participate in the US-led “Operation Prosperity Guardian”, which its stated intent is to “keep the Red Sea open for commercial shipping”, when in reality its intent is to provide a forward defensive shield for Israel without outright committing to joining Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in Palestine that has sparked outrage around the world, and inflamed tensions and anger in the Islamic world.
5) While the armchair generals of X demand that the US escalate its self-proclaimed “defensive” position in the Red Sea to an offensive land-based campaign to strike at AnsarAllah and its basing at the source, for all the huffing and puffing, that isn’t going to happen.
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It would require the co-operation of, at a minimum, Saudi Arabia (see above) which has already firmly stated it will not participate in, or provide resources for (including US basing inside KSA) any campaign which is a counter offensive against AnsarAllah, which would negate their existing truce with both Iran and Yemen. A good white paper from the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point outlines some of the history of the Saudi-Yemen conflict, which Saudi Arabia has zero interest in re-igniting.
Saudi Arabia is not going to put US and Israeli interests above its own, as it begins its own decoupling from the US and begins aligning with the Eurasian block, headed by Iran, Russia and China.
Houthi Guerrilla war to state capture
6) The most potent example of US emasculation in the region by far though is the situation of the Galaxy Leader, a merchant marine ship configured as a car carrier. The ship is British owned, Japanese operated and was transiting through the Red Sea when it was boarded and commandeered by AnsarAllah partisans on November 19th, 2023. In spite of US and UK demands that the ship and its crew be released, the ship as of this writing (December 28th, 2023) remains firmly in AnsarAllah control just off the coast of Yemen – so much so, that the ship has been turned into a tourist venue and has provided an endless well of motivation and pride for the Arabs who are firmly in support of ending the Israeli campaign and occupation of Palestine.
The US response to this, has been to memory hole this inconvenient fact with help from the mainstream media, pretend it didn’t happen and is no longer a crisis. So much for reliance upon the “blanket of safety” the presence of an entire US Carrier Strike Group (CSG) allegedly can provide for its allies. Again, this is the escalating cost of the US’ alliance with Israel, since AnsarAllah has made clear that its actions are in support of the partisan forces of Palestine, and that only Israeli-linked shipping, either Israeli owned, operated or transiting to Israeli ports of call are at risk.
This creates enormous issues for global shipping, as the largest civilian shipping fleet in the world is now MSC, which owns a fleet of merchant marine and tourist cruise ships, and is 50% owned by Rafaela Aponte, a Jew born in Haifa and the daughter of a Swiss Israeli banker, a fact that MSC is trying hard to keep concealed.
MSC United VIII attacked transiting Red Sea
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After the MSC United VIII was attacked as it was transiting the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia to a Pakistani port of call, MSC announced it had made the decision to redirect its ships to transit around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa – a huge escalation in costs and time over transiting through the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Professional industry insiders cite not only the extra fuel and transit time costs, but also greatly increased costs in adjusted crew compensation and bonuses to account for the greatly elevated safety risk, as well as recalculated and much higher insurance premiums. Costs for containers bound to Israel are estimated to be around 58% higher than they were prior to the conflict (so far), and customers in ALL other parts of the world will also see the greatly increased costs of goods on their shelves in the next quarter as a direct result of this US policy.
If Iran escalates this stand off by essentially closing the Straits of Gibraltar through its proxies in Algeria and Monaco as it is threatening to do, this escalates the already high pain threshold to global shipping logarithmically, as an estimated 20% of all world trade – on average 300 ships a day – transits through the narrow Straits of Gibraltar.
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If I were booking a cruise in the near term, I would think twice about booking on a MSC vessel, unless you want to run the risk of becoming a tourist attraction like the Galaxy Leader and your fate memory holed by the media and western governments.
Galaxy Leader captured by AnsarAllah guerrillas in Red Sea
Aside from these few minor hiccups, the Zionists who control the media and all of the cabinet positions in the Biden Administration would like to reassure everyone that all is well, the US remains the most powerful force in the world, and firmly in control. Putting domestic American concerns ahead of continuing to stubbornly prioritize Israel’s interests over its own isn’t going to happen either.
And to think, all of this could end tomorrow if the US were to cut off the oxygen lifeline to Israel, and join the world in demanding that Israel not only end its military offensive, but withdraw and give up its expanded post 1967 occupation of Palestine.
Nothing to see here, folks, move along…
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Strait of Gibraltar and Strait of Hormuez would bunch up a few knickers around the world. Imagine of the inhabitants of Aceh decide to threaten the Strait of Malacca!
When is the oil flowing to Israel going to be cut off?
If you lie with zionists, then you catch jews.
I have no direct skin in this game but just a thought.
If the people demanded that a 1000ft wide 100-150ft deep channel was to be dug, bored, blasted or however it was done, along the arid southern border you could have a new “America Canal” and FTRotW. Fuck the greens and the climate fuckwits. All transit fees are yours. Panama can suck eggs.
Added bonus. If you use the cut from the excavation to build steep barriers along the banks of the new canal, it makes it hard for invaders to get in.
Super added bonus. Get the convicts to do all the labouring, instead of working for peanuts to make profits for private corporations. All the overseers on the northern side of the canal armed to the teeth. Escapees heading north are to be shot on sight. No overseers on the southern bank. You want to escape, head south and don’t come back.
I think this could have been done for the cost of a redundant naval carrier group. Maybe the idea is pie in the sky but with the shit coming out of politician’s and business’ mouths, it seems a hell of a lot saner.
Makes far too much sense.
What is likely to happen is the Americans are going to have a large ship sank or severely damaged by the Houthi’s with a missile supplied to them by Iran. Then the US is going to go ape shit crazy about it. After having supplied missiles to Ukraine that have been used to sink Russian ships in the Black Sea.
Hypocrisy will, as always, be rife and furious but no one will notice.
Jews hate being denied their merchant profits. They won’t take much more
of this before they sic their lapdog U.S. military on the Houthis.
“When the Bolsheviks came to the Soviet Union to initiate assassinations and coups, the Russian realm numbered 150 million people in 1917. At the time of the Revolution there were only 200,000 members of the Bolsheviks who ultimately took control over 150 million. For 70 years.”
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Happiest article of the year. The only thing better would be Hezbollah targeting oil deliveries to the northern port and the storage/refinery infrastructure.
You can’t antisemitism me into accepting genocide.
What Israel is doing is not good for sure. Working up concern for the fate of mohammedans is not high on my priority list. I really don’i care what happens to them. kennite and mohammedans killing each other is a wi win for civilized people.
Iranian proxies in Algeria and Monaco? Perhaps the author was thinking of Morocco? I lived in the latter long ago and when I told this to an American, he replied “Say hello to Princess Grace”, so it’s not the first time confusion existed.
It is August 1914 we don’t know how this will work out. Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia are all making calculations about their ability to survive. They know that USA is not as omnipotent as it once was but still capable of inflicting a lot of damage. They are waiting for the other guys to go first. Then they will see if Uncle Sam has any left for them. It is going to be an interesting year.
The ship hijacking video could not have looked more fake and staged if they had tried.
The helicopter camera angle with the big obvious “flag” on the back of the copter, perfectly frame by the camera angle was DoD theater all the way!
Amazing how they are now making reality appear fake!