Regarding the drone strikes on Saudi oil facilities, writes the executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion: “Not everyone is telling the truth here (although everyone might think they are) and any prudent response to the attacks hinges on more factual certainty.”
“But we’ve also arrived here precisely because of Trump’s own haphazard and conflicted approach to regimes he claims he wants to upend.”
The full article can be found here.
Ramesh Thakur, a former UN assistant secretary-general, is emeritus professor at the Australian National University and Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Toda Peace Institute and editor of The nuclear ban treaty: a transformational reframing of the global nuclear order.
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One response to “TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN. Trump Is Cornered by the Saudi Drone Attacks (Bloomberg 16-9-19)”
Iran did it. Or was it the Houthis? Did Hezbollah help?
But there is another possibility. Recent reports indicate that there has been a recent flurry of diplomatic exchanges between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This makes sense as both UAE and Qatar have started making nice across the Persian Gulf.
Perhaps it’s time to ask again who is it that is the only (for now) beneficiary of the continuing turmoil in the Middle East?
And the somewhat darker question of who always “gets away with it”?
If the US or Russia would release their satellite images, the world would know exactly who did what.