{"id":87238,"date":"2019-05-20T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87238"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T13:22:08","slug":"whats-goin-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87238","title":{"rendered":"What’s Goin’ Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USMA EX-6B Prowler over Afghanistan (Photo by Senior Airman James Richardson\/USAF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Something is stirring in the Middle East. Per the following article, there is a possibility of passenger planes being ID’d as warplanes by Iran and accordingly shot down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates \u2014 Commercial airliners flying over the Persian Gulf risk being targeted by \u201cmiscalculation or misidentification\u201d from the Iranian military amid heightened tensions between the Islamic Republic and the U.S., American diplomats warned Saturday, even as both Washington and Tehran say they don\u2019t seek war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The warning relayed by U.S. diplomatic posts from the\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration<\/a> underscored the risks the current tensions pose to a region critical to both global air travel and trade. Oil tankers allegedly have faced sabotage and Yemen rebel drones attacked a crucial Saudi oil pipeline over the last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile on Saturday, Iraqi officials said\u00a0ExxonMobil Corp.\u00a0<\/a>began evacuating staff from Basra, and the island nation of Bahrain ordered its citizens out of Iraq and Iran over \u201cthe recent escalations and threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, U.S. officials have yet to publicly explain the threats they perceive coming from Iran, some two weeks after the White House ordered an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers into the region. The U.S. also has ordered nonessential staff out of its diplomatic posts in Iraq. – Navy Times article<\/p>\n

The full article is here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/05\/18\/as-tensions-rise-could-iran-mistake-airliners-for-warplanes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I am looking for anything that indicates Putin\/Russia may have a hand in stirring the pot, but so far have found nothing except photos of Vlad grinning\/smirking. Maybe he just enjoys the show.\u00a0 Just remember that the Soviet Union went bankrupt trying to annex Afghanistan into the USSR, and the result was that the USSR was dissolved, warfare and chaos ensued (the Balkans and Chechnya), and the Berlin\/East-West boundary wall between East and West Germany came down. Russia was financially bankrupt, until oil and gas were found the drilling started, and then Putin seized control of that, and now – well, looks like he wants control of Middle Eastern oil as well as Central and South American fields.<\/p>\n

Let’s also remember those little incidents a while back in which North Korea’s MIG pilots shot down a passenger jet, as well as the targeting of a commercial airliner during that nasty civil war over Crimea not so very long ago.<\/p>\n

Read the full article at the link. Stay tuned. Interesting times are upon us.<\/p>\n

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