A before-and-after photo of a pump station along Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline shows it was not merely "hit," but completely destroyed.
Given the attack on Yanbu Station, Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut down the East-West oil pipeline, halting oil exports. The oil lifelines through the Strait of Hormuz or the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea have all been blocked.
The past 24 hours have been catastrophic for the global energy market.
But the harsh reality is that this pain has only just begun.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said oil from Gulf states will be irrelevant within two years.
MBS called Trump twice in one day requesting assistance, but was rejected. The vital East-West oil pipeline now faces a fatal threat, and control over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait has been lost.
Is Trump deliberately accelerating the end of Saudi oil dominance?
It would be hard for another leader to grasp digging this grave—but if it were old Trump, after careful calculation, he might well do it.
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