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Squalid posted:I I just remembered when Trump when bankrupt in the 1990s he had to sell his prized super-yacht to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal at a loss. 100% he's been resentful ever since and is definitely gloating about the Prince's just come-upance to anyone within earshot Wikipedia posted:After a refit, Trump renamed it Trump Princess. Because of course he did.
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OhFunny posted:http://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-politics-hariri-analysis/saudi-reopens-lebanon-front-in-struggle-with-iran-idUSKBN1D72BA Does Israel count as a proxy? My guess is they're just trying to sow chaos in the hopes it catalyzes a new war between Israel and Hez. Less of an intricate scheme and more throwing poo poo at the wall and hoping it sticks.
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Throatwarbler posted:Hezbollah(Iraqi, Lebanese, Syrian) has There's an Iraqi "Hezbollah"?
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Jeez louise, Saudi Arabia, catch your drat breath
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Josef bugman posted:Okay so, I am a real newbie to all this but can I pop down some of the local "players" and ask for people to correct my understanding of what is going on? - Iran and Syria are allies. Iran supports Assad's forces in the civil war. - The Kurds are split into multiple polities and factions, which have various relationships with other factions. There are also Kurds in Syria. The Kurdish-led SDF controls about a third of the country right now and is fighting ISIS. - Yemen is a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, though SA is far more deeply involved. No one is at war with Lebanon (yet, this could change in literally days) - It's not that there's been a coup or succession crisis in SA, but more that the future king has been purging opponents and preparing himself to rule as an autocrat. - Israel is pro-Iraqi Kurdistan and has a de facto alliance with Saudi Arabia although neither would ever admit it. Egypt is increasingly Saudi Arabia's lapdog.
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Count Roland posted:It isn't nonsense, and there is a long game. Not like I know what it is, but if safe to assume that "gently caress iran" is part of it somehow. Speaking of stupid plans involving Qatar that are sure to backfire... https://theintercept.com/2017/11/09/uae-qatar-oitaba-rowland-banque-havilland-world-cup/ The UAE wants to steal the world cup by short selling Qatar lol
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Al-Saqr posted:apparently, there's a rumor floating around twitter about that Khamenei send his envoy Ali Akbar Wilayeti to visit Hariri and Hariri and one of his newspapers praised him after the visit, which is what probably drove his paymasters in Riyadh Insane. If that was literally the only reason they made him resign and imprisoned him... 
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Surprise Giraffe posted:Seems a bunch like Saudi Arabia is going to rule a substantially larger chunk of the middle east p. soon from the Harari thing. I feel like it's all going to be carved up again I think the opposite may be happening. This newfound aggressiveness is really just desperation. Oil's been cheap for a while and it's running out. There's plans in the works to turn assets liquid, like privatizing Aramco and "Vision 2030". There's a lot of unemployed young men. The real world is seeping in on the Wahhabist oil utopia, and time is running out. They want to take on Iran now before they're too weak to be able to. Of course, it could just be random flailings of Mohammed "Top Gun" bin Salman, but probably not since he hasn't been assassinated yet.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Your post kinda made me think of Saudi Arabia like pre-WW1 Germany - bad leader and an establishment feeling that the opening to take down their biggest rival was shrinking rapidly, so they had to do something decisive, soon. Good thing Saudi Arabia isn't the German Empire I suppose. I think a better analogy (this is silly and none of it is really analogous, but let me have fun for a minute) is Saudi Arabia as the pre-WW1 Austrian Empire. An antiquated monarchy too weak to really act decisively on its own, but acting aggressively towards its neighbors (Serbia) with the assumption that its more powerful ally (Germany, analogous to the US or Israel) will come to its aid in a pinch. And if the crown prince is killed, that really would spark a war, as it did then.
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CrazyLoon posted:Would KSA react similarly, were one of its prominent royals take his own version of Archduke Ferdinand's tour, but this time in Yemen and they get capped? Eh...honestly, I don't think they have the balls for it. Back then, Austro-Hungary might've held antiquated notions of warfare and that with the Germans on their side and the Turks, surely it'll all be over quick. But nowadays, with not even the USA being able to decisively defeat any nation or people, that are willing to resort to long-term guerilla warfare...even Saudi royals can't be that disconnected from reality to not know, how dumb repeating history would be nowadays. Yeah, the more likely scenario is a Saudi civil war caused by the power vacuum.
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If Erdogan could tone down the lebensraum talk for a minute and be a little more suave, he could try directly negotiating with Trump on Syria. Shower him with flattery, commiserate with him about refugees/illegal immigrants, and offer him some "favorable trade deals" in return for leaving Syria, with the pitch that he won't be "wasting" the money spent on occupying a middle eastern country, AND hey, here's a NATO ally willing to step up and do their part to "fight terrorism" and build a buffer against Iran. His generals would probably talk him out of it in the end, but it's worth a shot, at least.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:To be a bit more serious and big-picture about this: it's open season on contractors now. That's a gently caress of a lot of dead contractors and I'm curious what percentage of the entire oil facility protection force that was. This is the first time we've seen both the US and Russia apparently agree openly that no one is going to start a war over dead PMCs. That's a big deal. lol if you think the US wouldn't start a goddamn shitstorm over Russia killing some American contractors. Probably the easiest way to get Trump to change his tune real quick.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43053617 France pretty much created Syria, they might as well get back in this clusterfuck.
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This will probably stop the Turkish invasion, at least until the Kurds start fighting pro-Assad forces.
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BBC posted:Saudi Arabia says it will invest $64bn (£46bn) in developing its entertainment industry over the next decade. Is it stating the obvious that there's going to be blowback to this?
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Have the Taliban moderated at all to expand their appeal or are they still pretty much a bunch of dickheads?
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It's a false flag, how much more obvious could it be - The video shows "a mine being removed" from the port side of the ship - The damage is on the starboard side - Which is the side facing Arabia, not Iran - Which is where the crew reported the flying objects which caused the impacts coming from
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Are there any good documentaries about the Houthis, who they are and what they're trying to do? In the media it seems they only exist as an "Iranian proxy", having no further significance.
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Can anyone with more in depth knowledge than me of the two assassinated gentlemenexplain how this is such a big deal
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Is there any infrastructure on or around Al Asad (lol love the name) to defend against missiles, like Patriot batteries or something
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Any idea what's going on here? What kind of deal would Haftar even make with the GNA? Or did Putin just tell him "we're pulling our support, you're hosed"?
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On the most recent Chapo they mentioned a theory, I think gleaned from "Family of Secrets" about the Bush family, that Saudi Arabia buys expensive, cutting edge American weapons not for the purpose of ever actually using them but as insurance to get American military assistance in case of civil war, because these high tech weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists. I hadn't ever considered that but it makes good sense. In a sick way of course, that will inevitably bite us in the rear end one day when a rogue prince has finally had enough of MBS's heavy handed rule.
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Smirking_Serpent posted:so do any of the other frozen conflicts look like they might get hot? yeah maybe https://twitter.com/ReutersIran/status/1328948065714253824
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Who knows, but... https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1339971985250660356
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Yeah, not a lot of substance behind that tweet, but the fact that the Pentagon stopped briefing Biden all of a sudden makes the notion of a surprise parting shot at Iran interesting. Plus Pompeo sure was busy in the middle east in the aftermath of the election...
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9/11 but it won't be reported for two days
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TheRat posted:Am I the only one who thinks a jovial bet on when a city falls is a touch distasteful? You might even say it’s Something Awful
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I guess the Caro era happened in one of the brief windows of my life that I wasn't as terminally online, because I don't remember him or any of the threads he posted in. I got caught up with this podcast. It's no Radio War Nerd or even Chapo, but they give a pretty good overview of the course of events, including his posting: https://soundcloud.com/user-798629330/episode-93-kevin-patrick-dawes edit: they claim he actually killed people in Libya, which even if he had no empathy to prevent him from doing so, I have to doubt he'd be competent enough to actually shoot at a person and hit them. Can anyone confirm? Ramrod Hotshot fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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Al-Saqr posted:big news, a big breakthrough deal agreeing to a two month ceasefire between KSA and the Houthis has been announced, the siege of Yemen is being lifted, the deal includes:- Does this mean the Houthis won the war though? Will they keep fighting the Southern Movement for control of Aden?
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What is this really about in Yemen? Is it a sort of quasi-recognition that the Houthis are here to stay? https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1512090387485179907
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i say swears online posted:why would a change in saudi puppet government signify that? It's a sign that something is shifting, especially with the recent ceasefire.
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Done as in kaput or done as in completed? https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1519050488989245442
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Just catching up on the unfolding civil war in Sudan. What are the goals of this Hemedti guy and the RSF? Is this an attempted coup?
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I’d really like to know more about Yemen and “the houthis”. In the media, they are always referred to as “the Iran-backed Houthi rebels”, leading one to believe they are marginal guerillas propped up by a foreign power. But here they are firing ballistic missiles and conducting complex naval raids. Do “the houthis” at this point constitute the de facto Yemen state and military? Is there any article or podcast that goes into depth about Yemen without resorting to cheap propaganda?
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