One of the side effects of Russia's maintaining of the official decorum of non-involvement ("little green men" of unknown origin in Crimea, and the whole tank b

One of the side effects of Russia's maintaining of the official decorum of non-involvement ("little green men" of unknown origin in Crimea, and the whole tank battalions taking their tanks on voluntary vacation to Donbass :) in similar situation in Ukraine was avoiding opening themselves to the risk of otherwise legitimate counter-strike by Ukraine and scaling up of the war. Saudis seems to have forgo such risk in favor of full military power they can apply in the open war. Nothing helps a regime popularity better than a quick victorious war ... until counter strikes hit deep home where it really hurts, like the Saudi oil fields in this case. Reminds about the Berlin bombing that USSR did several months after the start of the war in 1941 - the almost unstoppable, at the moment, German forces were already deep in the USSR territory with the Moscow and the glorious relatively quick and easy victory pretty much already in sight, the Germans had full air superiority, and reaching Berlin from the yet unoccupied USSR territories was on the edge of USSR bombers capabilities. 11 bombers took part in the raid. The actual damage to Berlin, if any, was minimal, yet the psychological impact was huge on the both sides. ( US have the similar story of bombing of Tokyo in 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid)