{"id":48670,"date":"2019-09-26T16:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T21:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48670"},"modified":"2019-09-26T16:50:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T21:50:36","slug":"us-to-deploy-200-troops-patriot-missile-system-to-saudi-arabia-oil-jumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48670","title":{"rendered":"US To Deploy 200 Troops, Patriot Missile System To Saudi Arabia; Oil Jumps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-deploy-200-troops-and-patriot-missile-system-saudi-arabia\">US To Deploy 200 Troops, Patriot Missile System To Saudi Arabia; Oil Jumps<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Defense has finally revealed some of the details of Trump&#8217;s grand&nbsp;deployment&nbsp;<s>or appearance of doing something without doing much<\/s>&nbsp;and response to the Sept. 14 Saudi Aramco attacks which the administration blamed on Iran.&nbsp; The Pentagon is set to send&nbsp;<strong>200 personnel&nbsp;and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia<\/strong>, specifically a total of&nbsp;<em>one<\/em>&nbsp;Patriot missile and its support personnel, which further includes&nbsp;Sentinel radars&nbsp;meant to detect any incoming attack, according to a Thursday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/463259-us-to-deploy-missile-system-200-personnel-to-saudi-arabia\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news was a sufficient catalyst to spike the price of brent crude, which rapidly moved into the green upon news of the Pentagon announcement, after trading in the red all day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/brent%209.26.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/brent%209.26.jpg?itok=zufGbNj2\"><\/a>&#8220;This deployment will augment the kingdom&#8217;s air and missile defense of critical military and civilian infrastructure,\u201d Pentagon spokesman\u00a0Jonathan Hoffman\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that this will bolster&nbsp;<strong>\u201can already significant presence of U.S. forces in the region.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More significant is&nbsp;<strong>a potential further deployment on the table of additional troops&nbsp;<\/strong>and two more Patriot batteries and a&nbsp;Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), which would certainly signal escalation against Iran in the region should the plan be approved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US beefing up Saudi air defenses comes also as Riyadh&#8217;s current US-supplied systems have come under scrutiny for clearly failing to detect and defend against the Sept. 14 aerial attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As&nbsp;<em>The National Interest<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/buzz\/did-us-missile-defenses-fail-during-saudi-oil-attack-81171\">pointed out<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One thing is clear: The attack revealed the limits of Saudi Arabia\u2019s seemingly sophisticated air-defense system.&nbsp;<strong>Riyadh in recent years has spent billions of dollars building up six battalions of U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air missiles and associated radars. The Patriots didn\u2019t stop the recent attack<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary&nbsp;Mark Esper&nbsp;formally blamed Iran for the attack in statements last week, saying \u201call indications are that Iran was responsible for the attack\u201d&nbsp;on the two Aramco refineries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US To Deploy 200 Troops, Patriot Missile System To Saudi Arabia; Oil Jumps The Department of Defense has finally revealed some of the details of Trump&#8217;s grand&nbsp;deployment&nbsp;or appearance of doing something without doing much&nbsp;and response to the Sept. 14 Saudi Aramco attacks which the administration blamed on Iran.&nbsp; The Pentagon is set to send&nbsp;200 personnel&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-48670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48672,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48670\/revisions\/48672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}