RE: Civil war began in Saudi Arabia.
November 20, 2017 at 3:24 am
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2017 at 3:36 am by WinterHold.)
(November 19, 2017 at 10:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Bill Maher once put up a chart of the size of the armies allegedly fighting ISIS. They totaled 5 million men, ISIS had about 40,000 and Bill was wondering why they couldn't handle ISIS by themselves without dragging us into it.
Bill is a comic he is not an expert in realpolitik. Those armies are primarily designed to keep the regimes which pay them in power. How far any of them could project power across their own borders is an open question.
Exactly. If defeating ISIS was the goal of such a huge alliance; then they gave Islamic extremism the biggest boost it can ever dream for: ISIS looks invincible in the eyes of its supporters; the logic is that if all these armies united can't take down a single gang; then that gang is has God on their side.
You want Syria off the map? then let ISIS fuck the place up !
You want Iraq to become Sunni/Shiite states, fighting? then let ISIS spark the war with savage shiite locals!
You want Libya to get cut like a cake? send ISIS !
Personally; I see that ISIS is the central point in reshaping the region; it doesn't get defeated because big names in the alliance are behind ISIS. CIA? Mossad? Saudi Arabia? all of them combined ? IDK.
But one thing I'm sure about: somebody is behind them; CIA is my first suspect.
(November 19, 2017 at 10:18 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(November 19, 2017 at 12:36 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: It's seems almost perverse, and maybe Hari Seldon could explain it, but I'm almost convinced the US could be flipping a coin and deciding on that basis which side to back in the various clusterfucks around the world, and I'd bet we would still be on the WRONG side EVERY time.
Back one side openly and the other clandestinely. They're both gonna buy war tech.
How cynical is that?
Iraq/Iran war?
(November 20, 2017 at 12:25 am)vorlon13 Wrote: 60 Minutes did a piece tonite on how Saudi Arabia is fucking Yemen and indiscriminately killing children.
I'm thinking any fault lines develop in Saudi Arabia they'll just say "hey, we have a Shia mess in Yemen, gotta tackle that lest the fucking Iranians do to us what we'd love to do to them"
The news from Yemen is so bad; Saudies are bombing blindly in most cases.
They caused a Cholera outbreak that is considered the worst in modern history:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-devel...nd-of-year
Quote:The cholera epidemic in Yemen has become the largest and fastest-spreading outbreak of the disease in modern history
Quote:Kirolos said: “There’s no doubt this is a man-made crisis. Cholera only rears its head when there’s a complete and total breakdown in sanitation. All parties to the conflict must take responsibility for the health emergency we find ourselves in.”
More than two years of fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels has crippled the country, causing widespread internal displacement, the collapse of the public health system, and leaving millions on the brink of famine.
