🛢 Sidestepping the Hormuz squeeze: Has Saudi Arabia's desert pipeline flipped Iran's blockade script?

As Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz—a retaliatory move against US-Israeli hostilities —chokes global oil supplies, a strategic pipeline built by Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s is undergoing its first major stress test.

As the crisis intensifies, the Saudis have activated their East–West Crude Oil Pipeline—better known as the Petroline—at maximum capacity, offering a critical bypass to the blocked Strait of Hormuz.

🔶 The approximately 1,200 kilometer-long dual-pipe system was constructed during the Iran-Iraq War and became operational in 1981 as a strategic response to shipping threats in the Persian Gulf at that time.  

🔶 It connects the Abqaiq oil processing complex in the Eastern Province to the Red Sea export terminal at Yanbu

🔶 The pipeline has a maximum capacity of 7 million bpd: About 2 million bpd is used to supply domestic refineries, leaving 5 million bpd for export

Saudi Arabia is ramping up the pipeline to its maximum capacity, with Aramco CEO Amin Nasser confirming that the conduit would reach its full capacity of 7 million barrels per day (bpd) within days, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights.

⚠️However, this is far less than the roughly 20 million bpd of oil that typically transits via the Strait of Hormuz.  

Furthermore, the pipeline system was designed primarily for crude oil and cannot handle refined petroleum products (like diesel and jet fuel) that also pass through the strait.

👉 While the oil is safe from the Strait of Hormuz, it exits from ports that are vulnerable to other threats. 

The Red Sea port of Yanbu is within target range of the Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (the Houthis), which controls most of Yemen's Red Sea coast, and has a history of attacking any ships linked to Israel amid its support for the Palestinians.

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🇩🇪🤝🇮🇱 Germany covertly funneled billions into Israel’s nuclear ambitions – report

For decades, researchers have dug into Israel's Dimona reactor and its role in the country's secretive nuclear program that Tel Aviv has never officially confirmed.

But one question remained: who footed the bill?

A Haaretz report now claims that West Germany financed Israel’s nuclear project through a secret loan mechanism, transferring the equivalent of ~$5.7 billion from 1961 to 1973.

Hidden in plain sight

The plutonium-producing facility in the Negev Desert was started in the late 1950s with French help.

David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli prime minister, sought more than French support, according to the report.

His choice fell on West Germany led by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

🤡 Secrecy was essential: Ben-Gurion feared domestic backlash from open ties with Germany, while Germany worried open cooperation would anger the Arab world and boost East Germany.

A flurry of secret meetings involving Shimon Peres, then-director general of Israel’s Defense Ministry, West Germany's Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, Ben-Gurion and Adenauer finally sealed the deal in 1960, the report claims.

👉 Labeled “Negev development” and channeled through a Frankfurt state bank, the funds were officially described as loans to unnamed developing countries.

The capture and trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in 1960 alarmed West Germany, where former Nazis in Adenauer’s circle tied to Israel’s secret funding risked exposure, but this didn’t halt the program.

A subsequent repayment agreement in 1989 turned the loan, in practice, into a grant.

This covert German support may have been the hidden pillar that helped Israel build a nuclear program without relying solely on domestic resources or private donors.

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The default position really needs to be: which "vaccine" is causing this?

(Two deaths from an alleged "meningitis" which is a highly generic term for any type of inflammation of the meninges—the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord)

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"I'm sharing this again for the people who got so cross with me for drawing it two years ago.
No need to apologise. This isn't an 'I Told You So'. I just thought you might be better equipped to understand it now, which is good."

@BobMoran

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"So, if you have questions about this war, whether it's in your interest, your country's interests or not, that's never a question that's occurred to Ben Shapiro. Is this Good for America? It's really not a consideration. But if it's under your consideration, if you've raised that question, you are tantamount to a Holocaust denier. You’re insane, you're a crazy person. You probably think the moon landing was fake and 9/11 was fake.

But there is a pretty easy way to settle any debate about 9/11, which is by declassifying the millions of pages of classified documents that might explain what 9/11 was. But that's never under consideration. We could end this debate right now. We won't, of course.

But you're a bad person. And above all, you are a disloyal person. Disloyal to the United States. You are “rooting for Iran to win.” You're part of the grievance party. How dare you complain? How dare you have grievances? Pretty weak, coming from a guy who literally knows nothing about the rest of the world at all.

So you know, you can get annoyed by it. At some point, especially if Iran wins, people like that will double their calls to arrest anyone on the other side. They're already calling for it. “These people should be investigated. Anyone who's against this should be investigated. They should go to jail.”

Their ideological opponent should go to jail. Who's the totalitarian here?

And you'll hear a lot more of that. But you will not see people pay a ton of attention to yelping, childish yelping like that, totally uninformed screaming like that, ever again.
Because again, this conflict has entered what the military refers to, euphemistically, as the kinetic stage. People are actually firing munitions at each other. So it kinda doesn't matter what people on the sidelines say at this point. This is a hot war and it will be decided by force.

We've exited the part of the exchange where it's two guys in the parking lot. “What'd you say? I'll mess you up!” And we've gotten to the part where one guy just punches the other guy in the face and keeps going unless he is stopped.

So that's exactly where we are. So it doesn't kind of matter what you said before the punching started.

Not that Ben Shapiro has any experience with that, but it's just true that once people start hurting each other, words matter less. And the dominant party will emerge victorious. That's exactly where we are."

Tucker Carlson

Watch the full monologue here: https://youtu.be/pcc5jUcORUY

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🇺🇸 Trump urging allies to help with the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile the allies...

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The Great Reset 2.0 all going according to plan then.

Iran war could cost over 100,000 Brits their jobs – Telegraph
https://www.rt.com/business/635251-iran-conflict-uk-layoffs-telegraph/

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Iyah May - Good Citizen - Music Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRgDybQ8WWg

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