🎥 Why did Saudi Arabia and Kuwait resist helping U.S. Operation “Project Freedom”?
Jeremy Scahill says Saudi and Kuwaiti resistance was one factor in Trump backing off Project Freedom.
Kuwait, in particular, had taken heavy strikes during the war and did not want to be left… pic.twitter.com/GsdX1r9asH
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The sawd seawater pumping plant at Qurrayah on the shores of the Persian Gulf, only 30 miles from Qatar, pumps 14mbpd of treated sea water into the giant ghawar/khurais oilfields with 5k wellheads inland. At 60% recovery the crude oil that floats up, 8.4mbpd,amounts to 80% of sawd crude output of 11mbpd. Iran can cutoff mbs balls in half an hour by just $5k of stealth sea level kamikaze drones on Qurrayah pumps. Or even worse seal level missile its nearby power plant which also powers the nearby desalination plant. Its the achillis heel of the sawds and Iran has so far been charitable, despite the bombers, arms, avgas all supplied from the sawd “aircraft carrier” bases next door, not to have destroyed Qurrayah. No need even to attack the pipeline to Yanbu on tbe Red Sea that bypasses Hormuz.
Scott Ritter said on Jimmy Dore’s show that the reason Saudi Arabia wasn’t cooperating as due to some paper work issues that the US had not gone through properly but now that they have the US can use SA to launch attacks. No idea about that as I am Nobody but Scott knows his stuff but it would be great if SA told the US to GO F*CK THEMSELVES but seems like SA is run by slimy low life scum bags themselves. Sounds like Kuwait though may be really concerned for good reason and in fact we do see the GCCs questioning the US relationship.