(August 28, 2013 at 2:47 pm)_xenu_ Wrote:(August 28, 2013 at 1:15 pm)Chuck Wrote: Russia can't topple the Saudi Regime, can't occupy Saudi territory, Saudi Arabia will still have her vast oil resources and wealth.Actually, left to their own devices, they probably could. However, they do risk pissing off the entire Middle East and we in the US have some experience with that.
If they can't win over the Afghanis right across the border when Soviet military power was at its high water mark, it seem hard to imagine they would make much of a dent against Saudis a couple of hostile countries away now that Russian military power is but a shadow of that which has had its ass handed to it in Chechnya, which in turn is but a shadow of the the force that was stalemated by the Afghanis.
