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Thomas Marsh's avatar

Please….if you have a bully near by who has crazies in their own societies you do not tease that beast unless you have to and for now this is not the time. By the way there has been two 4 rated earthquakes near the Iranian eastern border on the 19th and on 20 th a 5 rated earthquake southeast of Tehran Iran. Sll deep enough to hide small nuke testing….How curious the silence from surrounding countries. Geologist think being 6 miles down that they doubt testing would be so deep but what better way to hide it…to not be a potential sign of the real needed attack and destruction on infrastructure of Iran’s nuke program ti include any human involved to include engineers and workers/commanders. My approach…why not use a deep mine shaft drilled long ago…makes sense. I would not be surprised to see a direct usage on a city in Israel soon unfortunately …making the insane Iran leaders the Terrorist the have proven themselves to be ALL ALONG….and the World allowed it as have several recent Presidents.

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Daniel Clarke-Serret's avatar

Thanks for the analysis.

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Pablo's avatar

They don’t like radical “islamism”? Really? And Saudi’s Wahabis are what, moderate? Did you ask ChatGPT to write this propaganda piece?

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Pablo's avatar

They don’t like radical “islamism”? Really? And Saudi’s Wahabis are what, moderate? Did you ask ChatGPT to write this propaganda piece?

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Al Dente's avatar

According to ChatGPT: "Over the past 30 years (roughly from 1995 to 2025), Saudi Arabia has imported weaponry totaling tens of billions of U.S. dollars annually, amounting to well over $200 billion overall."

The population of SA is roughly 35 million, much larger than Israel. With all this weaponry, and a reasonably large population, SA was unable to defeat the Houthis. I conclude that the SA men are spoiled playboys and welfare loafers, unwilling or unable to fight. That's why their preferred method of "defense" is to crawl on their bellies to the Iranian regime while condemning Israel's noble and sublime war against that hideous regime.

Why does anyone think that SA recognizing Israel would add value? What do these craven cowards have to offer?

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Wild Pacific's avatar

One question — will they do anything at all? Other that columnists throwing paper challenges to each other? Aside from KSA other gulf states seem to pursue a status-quo wishcasting policy without any teeth.

No amount of conflicts around the world seems to convince them to build a self defense, or even challenge Houthis, which is a land campaign really.

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blackdog1955's avatar

All a facade. They want fundamentalist Iran gone but it would be suicide to say so outside of closed doors.

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Pete Ross's avatar

Fake country Qatar is a UK proxy.

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Rexii's avatar

because they have paid dogs like you to do it for them 🤣

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Al Mustafa's avatar

It’s a tricky situation. The Gulf countries lack the demography to conscript a sizeable army. No amount of money, American weapons or even Israeli support will be enough to protect the Gulf countries against a determined neighbour.

They can’t be playing this balancing act forever. They solved this demographic problem partially by recruiting the Sudanese during the Yemen war only to turn on them soon after and started to fuel the war tearing the country apart

It was an odd decision

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WASBAPPIN's avatar

Because the UAE is allied with Iran against Arab democracy.

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Ash 1952's avatar

Because they don’t like the fanatic Iranian mullahs

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