Posted on 07/24/2026 10:32:04 PM PDT by McGruff
Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes on Houthi targets in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida and a nearby island on Friday, after the Iran-backed group announced a maritime blockade and attacked Saudi ships.
Saudi authorities later issued emergency alerts for the province of Jizan as the Houthis claimed responsibility for a missile attack on the city of Jizan.
Early on Saturday, the Houthis' Ansarollah media said on Telegram that a "Yemeni missile strike" had caused fires in the Saudi city of Jizan.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Footage from Jazan shows enormous fires continuing across the Saudi Aramco refinery and industrial complex following Yemeni missile strikes.
Several separate columns of dense black smoke can be seen rising from the facility, indicating fires across multiple sections of the complex.
The Jazan refinery has a processing capacity of approximately 400,000 barrels per day.
This looks like the perfect excuse for the Saudis’ to take out Iran’s refined products supply. (It virtually all goes to domestic use.)
If the Saudis had a clue, they could smother the Houthis AND Iran with Ukie style drones. SA has the money and they have, get this, over 23 million gamers in their population.
Lol. One joystick to rule them all!
Guess that answers my question of what will we all do when AI takes over, become gamers😎
IIRC, refineries have been on our target list during this series of bombings.
CC
“Guess that answers my question of what will we all do when AI takes over, become gamers😎”
On behalf of my generation (GenX), I gotta ask: where do we insert the quarters?
CC
A lot of Air assets headed into the region over the last couple of days, with talk of a larger strike on Iran, or some significant new phase to the Air Campaign.
Perhaps it is negotiating pressure, but it may signal that the end of the original American target list is being reached (Military and Defense Industrial Base), and that a new phase is planned (Economic targets? Political/Regime Change targets?)
The Houthis may soon get an example shown to them, and/or Iran may be distracted/disabled from providing the Houthis resupply.
Wow...this is a change of events...and adds tons of both offensive and defensive weapons to the equation.
I see that Bulgaria, I think, has agreed to host air tankers.
I wonder why not Turkey? Guess that is why State Dept. Says no F-35s for you! No more fancy greetings for Trump either.
Speaking from the pong generation 😂, QUBE, and intellivision, be home when it’s dark, wait till your father gets home, jungle gyms …..😀
GenX: Free Range Childhood.
CC
Yes, it is Bulgaria now hosting the Refuelers.
Turkey borders Iran, and is within range of a lot more Iranian weapons. They would likely be drawn into the war is they hosted, which would be a huge move.
Perhaps Turkey (perhaps Pakistan) is keeping its hands clean, to serve as “neutral” occupation peacekeepers during reconstruction.
So far, in spite of having hosted Trump and made oh so nice to him they have not been attacked by the Insanians. I’m sure there is some good reason for that and we may never know the truth. The two parties are, in a way, similarly predisposed.
Pakistan I get and it is an Afghanistan away, sort of.
I don’t understand why the “Houthis” are allowed to exist.
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