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> Iran and Saudi Arabia restoring ties is likely very bad news for Israel While geopolitics creates the strangest bedfellows, this is probably an attempt to pl
by nyokodo 3y ago
> Iran and Saudi Arabia restoring ties is likely very bad news for Israel
While geopolitics creates the strangest bedfellows, this is probably an attempt to play China off against the USA/Japan as well as shake a few geopolitical trees. I doubt some handshakes are going to resolve centuries of mutual hatred and Sunni/Shia supremacy between Saudi and Iran. Saudi has mountains of cash but needs a security guarantor. The USA has played that role for some decades but is losing interest so Saudi is maneuvering to regain American interest or gain another guarantor. They may be betting that diplomatic excursions with Iran ostensibly brokered by China will lead to the USA or Japan stepping in to prevent China gaining greater influence in the region, and if not maybe China would work out for them.
- adra 3y agoHey, look at it this way, the Yemen civil war is still ongoing, and if they are it's likely because Iran and Saudi Arabia are still funding it, which would conflate to eat least a cold war between the sides even if there's some surface level of democracy forming.