U.S. and Israel BAFFLED by Iran’s underground “ghost” missile launchers. Spain, Italy pull troops after deadly Erbil strike

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Spain’s withdrawal follows a deadly drone strike Thursday on a French military base near Erbil that killed Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion and wounded several other French soldiers. An Iranian-made Shahed drone hit the Mala Qara facility dozens of miles southwest of Erbil.

French President Emmanuel Macron slammed the attack as “unacceptable” – stressing that French forces are deployed strictly for counter-terrorism missions against ISIS. “The war in Iran cannot justify such attacks,” Macron said.

Italy has also begun quietly pulling personnel from Iraq, after Prime Minister Meloni essentially said Trump’s Iran war is not Italy’s fight. Military.com reports Monday:

Italy has also begun pulling back some of its military personnel stationed in the region. The Italian defense ministry confirmed that troops stationed at a base in Erbil in Iraq’s Kurdistan region were being withdrawn as the security situation deteriorated.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/european-nations-pull-their-anti-isis-mission-troops-out-iraq

Trump just claimed gas prices will drop as soon as the US-Israel war on Iran is over, “which will be soon.”

Here is what I just told a friend: “It’s Iran’s strategic interest to show the world they can effectively retaliate if attacked again in the future by sending the oil price to an unbearable level for US and their allies’ consumers.

Furthermore, Iran is now openly targeting GCC countries, and it’s fair to assume it has a plan to inflict long-lasting damage to their revenue sources, mostly linked to oil and gas exports, so they won’t be able to use those to strengthen their armies by building capabilities to strike back at Iran from their territories in the future.

As a consequence, the decision to end this conflict as things stand now is not Trump’s.

In the same way, everyone with 2 grams of brains knows military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz are impossible; the same applies to the possibility of a ground invasion of Iran (it will be a brutal carnage because of the type of advantage Iran’s territorial structure gives to the Iranians). By now it’s even clear that the majority of Iranians living in Iran support the local government, even if Western media tried so hard to convince everyone outside Iran of the opposite. If this weren’t the case, the original plan of taking out Khamenei to trigger a popular uprising would have worked. Period.

The only option to tilt the balance of power back onto the US side lies in the use of tactical nukes, but this option is and will always remain off the table because it can open a geopolitical Pandora’s box; no one has a clue how it can play out globally.

Bottom line: Iran will carry on with its strategy to create an oil price shock till the price is high enough to serve as a future deterrent against any action towards them, and till is high enough, the US and its allies’ population will force them to cease the hostilities from their side first.”

I strongly believe we are heading towards an incredible oil price shock that is inevitable at this point; the only unknown is how long it will last and its magnitude.

Feel free to bookmark this post and bring it back up in the future if I am wrong