Two Oil Tankers Attacked In Persian Gulf
Two Oil Tankers- the MT Front Altair and the Kokuka Courageous have been attacked in the Persian Gulf according to multiple media outlets. While the specifics of the attack remain unclear, it is being reported that both tankers were struck by torpedoes with the Front Altair reportedly “on fire and adrift.”
Both tankers were carrying fuel en route to Singapore and Taiwan, with the Kokuka Courageous being owned by a Japanese shipping company. This attack comes as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with Iranian leaders in Tehran. With tensions already high, UAE has laid blame on a “state actor” while not specifying who but stating, “The attacks required the expert navigation of fast boats which were able to intrude into UAE territorial waters.” That immediately suggests Iran, who uses rapidly deployed fast attack craft as a primary naval strategy.
Its all signs that a wider conflict is about to get worse. The simmering Sunni-Shia conflict manifested into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iranian-backed Houthis took a turn for the worse in the last 24 hours with a missile attack being claimed by the Shiite rebel group on an airport in the Saudi town of Abha wounding 26. While in the near term it means gas prices may go up, you need to be prepared for a larger conflict that will have major consequences in the US.
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Doesn’t seem to make sense for Iran to attack a Japanese ship, if the two nations are involved in talks…..
It doesn’t at face value. Never take Persians (or anyone else in the Middle East) at face value.
You can’t employ logic, when dealing with people who are illogical.
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And so it begins.
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Insofar as this info pertains to us here I sent out a message at odarkthirty to the group to fill up all their tanks and cans today. If nothing else they will save a few bucks.
I noticed with some of them they get lax on mower gas cans this time of year.
Triggers like these are what we need to watch closely.
Are we supposed to believe that Iran did this? Or any number of other countries (including our own) that would like to see us embroiled in a war with Iraq? False flag?
Does it change the way we respond or act to the situation as regular folks?
Are you saying we are supposed to believe the Iranians!?!
Does this line of thinking help the immediate situation?
As for me I’ve no control over the situation except within my own realm. I watch and I react or plan to put me and mine in the best possible situation.
Bracken provided excellent perspective on this on Infowars today.
Israel does or doesn’t have the capacity and motive for pulling this off?
UAE is saying the “state actor “:
1. Came out of nowhere
2. Used fast boats
3. Disappeared without a trace
… or they know where these actors are or where they went?
Here is some recent intel with video.
https://news.usni.org/2019/06/13/u-s-destroyer-responding-to-distress-calls-in-the-gulf-of-oman-amidst-reports-of-attacks
All I know is everything I’ve personally been involved in from sports games to federal cases, the media and government lies/gets wrong.