*SAUDIS TELL OPEC THAT OUTPUT SLUMPED AGAIN TO LOWEST SINCE 1990
Brent crude
so much for freedom of navigation
https://archive.ph/hM6Um
The rules governing global shipping are breaking down, the world’s largest maritime nations have warned, disrupted by wars and a growing shadow fleet that operates beyond western oversight.
The shipping industry has for decades been protected by laws that ensure free navigation and the neutrality of commercial vessels, but the collapse of those principles is posing a severe risk to global trade, according to a group of 18 shipping superpowers.
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The statement is the first public intervention from the CSG since it was established more than 60 years ago. The group’s members include Greece, Singapore, Denmark, Japan, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and South Korea.
“Shipping routes are increasingly instruments of leverage and risk,” the CSG warned, adding that recent events show how “fragile” the system of maritime trade can be.
internet buzzing with unconfirmed rumors that Houthis have rolled up the west coast of Yemen and have taken Perim island
disastrous if accurate
YEMEN'S HOUTHI CONTROLLED HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS CENTRE ANNOUNCES THAT NAVIGATION IN THE RED SEA IS SAFE FOR ALL SHIPPING COMPANIES EXCEPT SAUDI VESSELS.
Maybe the first time in history we can point to the President and directly blame him for the oil prices going sky high.
Where's tsa to discuss this?
who cares?
tsa's approximately the worst ST poster ever
hoping this is bull , tbh
Maybe Pakistan will help
KSA must be ruing the heavy bribes they laid on Trump, only for him to piss backwards on them when they need help the most
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-declines-saudi-crown-princes-call-us-strikes-houthis-axios-reports-2026-09-11/Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called U.S. President Donald Trump twice on Thursday and urged him to launch strikes against the Houthis, #Axios reported, citing two U.S. officials.
Trump rejected the request, and U.S. officials said the administration does not intend to take direct military action against the Houthis at this time, the report said.
Maybe Trump is afraid of what Iran will do if the US attacks the houthis
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908366The US is supporting Saudi Arabia in the escalating fight in Yemen, but is stopping short of direct military involvement. Commander of US Central Command Adm. Brad Cooper traveled to Saudi Arabia on Thursday for coordination meetings, Axios cited two sources with knowledge of the matter as saying.
The Trump administration will also be providing Saudi Arabia with US intelligence on the Houthis, as well as targeting data, and roughly 200 US military personnel are already in the country providing non-kinetic support, according to Axios.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/10/p...thi-iran-yemenEXCLUSIVE: US expands intel, targeting support for Saudi campaign against Iranian ally
More than 100 US military advisers are on the ground in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support to the Kingdom in its military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, multiple sources familiar with the effort say. The assistance comes as fighting on the peninsula intensifies and risks spilling into open war with the Houthis, threatening a second major shipping corridor out of the Middle East.
The US military personnel are working as part of a newly-established joint forces command, which was formed in recent weeks amid signs Iran was ramping up its own efforts to aid Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia, one of the sources, a US official, said. That official put the total at roughly 200 troops.
The presence of US troops assisting Saudi Arabia was described to CNN by five sources familiar with the operations.
The US has helped Saudi Arabia use a targeting tool that allows military officers to see in real-time what is happening on the battlefield, one US official told CNN, comparing it to the Maven system used by the Pentagon. Another source familiar with ongoing cooperation between the two countries also said that the US is providing “geospatial” targeting support to Saudi Arabia for strikes against the Houthis.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/10/m...ea-strait-intlIran-backed Houthis capture key island in vital waterway
Iran-backed rebels in Yemen captured the strategic Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on Friday, two Yemeni government sources told CNN, potentially expanding Tehran’s influence over another key global shipping route.
A day earlier, the Houthi group captured the port town of Mocha as it sought to take control of the country’s Red Sea coast.
The news sent shockwaves worldwide over the possible impact on global shipping and oil prices, as well as the risk of opening a new front in the US-Iran war.
Bab al-Mandeb is a geopolitical chokepoint linking Asia and Europe via the Red Sea and Suez Canal. Although less critical to the oil trade than the Strait of Hormuz, it carries eddential goods worldwide, including millions of barrels of oil each day.
Its strategic importance has grown since the US-Iran war began, as Saudi Arabia increasingly uses its Red Sea export route to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed to most shipping.
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tough luck for the KSA, if accurate
https://www.yemenmonitor.com/en/Deta...ticleID/181581Reuters reported, citing a Pakistani source, that Saudi officials held a meeting in Riyadh with senior military representatives from Pakistan and Turkey to discuss coordinating a response to the recent escalation linked to Houthi attacks.
The source said the three countries agreed that their forces would not enter Yemeni territory, and that any potential military response would instead be launched from within Saudi territory.
Reuters quoted a second Pakistani source as saying that no decision has yet been made on Pakistan’s participation in any retaliatory strikes. The source stressed that the military agreement between Islamabad and Riyadh is defensive in nature and is limited to protecting Saudi territory.
The source explained that Pakistani forces could provide military and technical support, as well as ground or air support inside Saudi Arabia, but would not participate in combat operations outside the Kingdom.
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Taking out this pipeline would remove ~5M bbl/day from the energy market
Saudi Arabia's current production is reportedly ~6.5M bbl/day
https://investinglive.com/commoditie...west-pipeline/
Unconfirmed claims of fresh damage to Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, a key Red Sea export route that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, are the kind of headline oil markets have grown sensitive to since Houthi attacks on the kingdom escalated again this month. Even unverified, the mere suggestion of another strike on Petroline tends to draw a knee-jerk bid in crude given the route's role as a workaround while Hormuz-linked disruptions persist. Absent confirmation from Aramco, the Saudi energy ministry or a wire service, any price reaction attributable specifically to this claim should be treated as rumour-driven positioning rather than a repricing of fundamentals. The bigger, already-confirmed backdrop, last week's wave of Houthi strikes on facilities in Saudi Arabia's south, remains the more material story for oil risk premia this week.
Any confirmation of damage to the pipeline would likely draw a firmer, more durable bid in crude given the route's role as a workaround for Hormuz-linked disruptions, whereas an unverified claim alone would typically be treated as noise rather than a repricing catalyst.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/saud...-pipeline.htmlSaudi Arabia shut down East-West crude oil pipeline after multiple attacks
Saudi Arabia shut down its crucial East-West crude oil pipeline as a precautionary measure after multiple attacks, the kingdom’s Energy Ministry said Friday in a statement.
The pipeline was targeted in the Riyadh and Madinah regions on Thursday morning, the ministry said. Multiple people were injured in the attacks, it said.
Emergency teams were deployed to secure the pipeline and assess its safety, the ministry said. “Any further developments will be announced in due course,” it said.
The Saudis have relied on the East-West pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war. Riyadh has redirected millions of barrels of crude oil exports per day through the pipeline to the Red Sea.
The Saudis did not say who was behind the attacks or whether the pipeline suffered significant damage. However, Iran-allied Houthi militants in Yemen have escalated strikes on Saudi Arabia this week.
is Saudi Arabia good at ground maneuvers?
if not, this situation could get existential in a hurry
Saudis point the finger at Iranian-backed militias in Iraq
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's condemnation, in the strongest terms,of the targeting of the East West pipeline in the Riyadh and Madinah regions by several drones that came from Iraq, which resulted in human injuries and some damage that is currently being addressed.
The Kingdom clarifies that, based on the request of His Excellency the Iraqi Prime Minister that the brotherly government of Iraq be given the opportunity to take the measures necessary to prevent attacks launched from Iraqi territory against the Kingdom and neighboring states, the Kingdom has opted not to respond at this stage, and to support the efforts of the Iraqi government.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms that it reserves its right to take all measures necessary to protect its sovereignty, its security, its facilities, its citizens and the residents within it.
Saudis point the finger at Iranian-backed militias in Iraq
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's condemnation, in the strongest terms,of the targeting of the East West pipeline in the Riyadh and Madinah regions by several drones that came from Iraq, which resulted in human injuries and some damage that is currently being addressed.
The Kingdom clarifies that, based on the request of His Excellency the Iraqi Prime Minister that the brotherly government of Iraq be given the opportunity to take the measures necessary to prevent attacks launched from Iraqi territory against the Kingdom and neighboring states, the Kingdom has opted not to respond at this stage, and to support the efforts of the Iraqi government.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms that it reserves its right to take all measures necessary to protect its sovereignty, its security, its facilities, its citizens and the residents within it.
Pay up, suckers.The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia affirms that it reserves its right to take all [begging] necessary to protect its sovereignty, its security, its facilities, its citizens and the residents within it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...-yemen/688592/For all the setbacks suffered by Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” over the past year or two, its forces retain an ideological fervor and an esprit de corps that is sorely lacking on the other side. The Gulf states’ failure to work together against the Houthis has been catastrophic, and it echoes Trump’s own failure to devise a plausible or coordinated strategy against Iran.
Although the Houthis already had the ability to threaten shipping in the Red Sea, the capture of the Bab el-Mandeb “means you can literally sit on the coast and fire at passing ships,” April Longley Alley, a Yemen expert at the Washington Ins ute on Near East Policy and the former political adviser to the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, told me. “It makes it easier and cheaper, and it solidifies, from a military and political point of view, that they have a stranglehold on the strait.”
The United States might not be able to do much about this, even if the Pentagon launches a new round of air strikes on the Houthis. (The Saudi leader, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, called Trump twice yesterday urging him to strike the Houthis, Axios reported.) Bombs and missiles would achieve little without a ground force to take advantage of them, and America’s Yemeni allies are now battered and divided. The Trump administration waged a seven-week war against the group last year, and although it succeeded in killing some Houthi commanders, it did not dislodge the group or alter its ability to wage war, as Trump had promised.
scuttlebutt on the KSA's military is that the house of Saud prefers to keep it weak enough that it cannot become a power rival
in a hot war with an implacable enemy and little direct help from allies, the resulting danger to the KSA is nontrivial
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