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I'm pretty sure that Qatar and the Saudis are not exactly pleased with having their stuff blown up.
by vkou 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure that Qatar and the Saudis are not exactly pleased with having their stuff blown up.
- petre 2mo agoQatar is pretty much screwed as they can't get the gas out of the Gulf. The Saudis will have to eventually do something about Yemen, because Bab Al-Mandab tanker traffic is also under threat and Asia id paying good money for fossil fuels right now.
- bix6 2mo agoTrue but I’ve heard they are in support of Iran getting decimated so they can fill the power vacuum.
- api 2mo agoSo many Americans don't understand that these two "branches" of the Muslim world are at odds as much if not more than Israel and the Muslim world. That whole region is a mess of deep long-standing divisions.
- dmix 2mo agoI'd still take UAE vs Saudi, over Iran destabilizing everything in the region (Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Western Sahara). Not to mention supporting Russia and North Korea.
- vkou 2mo agoRight, the Saudis have never destabilized anything, nor have their embrace of batshit-insane wahhabism created the environment and the people that flew two airplanes into some highrises a few decades ago.
- dmix 2mo agoRight the whole conflict UAE has with Saudis is they support Islamists who do stuff like that, which destabilizes the region. That's a good battle to have play out IMO. The fact a power player is even taking that position is pretty great, despite UAEs own flaws and meddling. Ultimately that clash is still very different than Iran being a self destructive pariah state funding only terrorism and destroyting their own economy through (often socialist) mismanagement.
- vkou 2mo agoI think they are finding that a bad peace was better than a good war.