Duck and Cover…What Could Posssibly Go Wrong?…”Our entire system is a lie. The banking system is a lie where mark to fantasy is the rule, our economic reporting is false and so are all markets.”

Tuesday, March 31, 2015
By Paul Martin

By Bill Holter
GoldSeek.com
Tuesday, 31 March 2015

I can still remember being in elementary school and the alarm going off in the middle of class, it was time to practice “duck and cover”. Another practice drill was when all six grades would march to the basement of the building and huddle in the boiler room, a potential nuclear war at any time was very real to us in the old days. It’s different today, everyone “knows” a nuclear war can nor will ever happen. It can’t happen because our leaders driving the bus are too smart to ever go down that road …right?

In case you have only been watching mainstream media, you may not be aware another “little war” has broken out in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I mentioned “mainstream media” above because …there is almost NO MENTION of this. More coverage has been given to an airliner crashed by a depressed pilot and Mr. Obama’s recent golf trip. What is happening is so complicated it boggles the mind. The underlying cause can be said to be religious, between the Sunnis and Shiites but this line is quite blurred because of other alliances.

To bring you up to speed, Saudi Arabia is predominantly Sunni, Iran is predominantly Shiite. This pits the two against each other. Yemen had a Shiite president until 2012 and he was replaced by a Sunni. The country is split, mostly Shiite in the north and Sunni in the south. A new name (Al Qaeda, ISIL, ISIS etc.), the Shiite (Iranian backed) “Houthi” have sprung up from the north and forced the president out of the capital, his whereabouts are unknown. Yemen has been and is going through a civil war.

The problems as I see them are: first, Yemen controls a choke point of oil transportation from the Red Sea, logistically they can prevent a goodly percentage of oil from reaching world markets. This in my mind is secondary to what potentially could be “drawn in”. If this expands and truly becomes Saudi Arabia versus Iran then assuming our ties with the Saudis remain (remember they just joined China’s competing infrastructure bank against U.S. wishes), it will become the U.S. versus Russia backing Iran. A side oddity is the U.S. providing airstrikes in support of Iranian fighters against the ISIS advance in Iraq. Could we support Iranian troops in one country yet cut them down in another conflict? I suppose yes and should not be surprising given our foreign policy thought process, it could be said it is even probable? This is the danger in the Middle East, it is religious and thus the hardest type of fire to put out.

This is not the only place the U.S. and Russia are facing off, don’t forget Ukraine and other borders to Russia. NATO (the U.S.) has been amassing hardware all around the Russian border and our Congress just overwhelmingly voted 348-48 to supply Ukraine with military hardware. Mr. Putin and Russia have previously said if we arm Ukraine, they will consider it an act of war.

This is insanity! It was reported yesterday the U.S. is sending 50 Abrams class tanks to Ukraine, not smart in my opinion. Sending arms to Ukraine will not work to defeat Russia, it will however get a war started which is exactly what the U.S. has been trying to do over the last several years.

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