The War That Won’t Happen & The War That Already Is

Even with dissident Iranian sources providing a form of confirmation that the Iranian leadership ordered the September 14th attack on Saudi oil facilities, there will be no war. The Saudi Crown Prince, MBS, has made that clear, calling for a political solution. A war, after all, would preclude an Aramco IPO that is now in full force, with the latest enticement to potentially skeptical investors being the oil giant’s promise to pay out a total annual dividend of $75 billion–up from the some $58 billion that Aramco paid the Saudi government…