The attack on two tankers yesterday in the Sea of Oman could have been a false flag blamed on Iran by the Saudis, or the same thing by the Israeli/USA tag team to forward the Trump administration's push for war with that recalcitrant, proud, anti-Rockefeller Islamic state, OR...it could be (given that one of the tankers was supposedly ferrying jet fuel to Taiwan) a warning shot fired by a Chinese submarine.
(An advanced Chinese sub. Courtesy of nationalinterest.org.)
Whatever the true nature of the attacks, this is BIG NEWS and a definite ratcheting up of global tensions in the hot spot that prognosticators have been saying for decades would be the likely flash point for the next World War. Even, going back to the 16th century, Nostradamus hinted that the third and final "anti-Christ" would arise from this region (named "Mabus" or "Allus" or some amalgamation thereof) and wearing a blue turban.
Still plenty of digging to be done here, and careful MONITORING OF PUBLIC STATEMENTS by the usual suspects is definitely prescribed.
It would be nice if this blew over, but I think it just as likely these attacks are a dangerous harbinger we ought not to discount or take lightly.