https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1fqo6sr/saudi_crown_prince_muhammed_bin_salman_tells/
Spoilers: he's actually quoted making a completely reasonable statement which is pretty much unsourced anyway but, of course, redditors didn't read the article.
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Further proof that Saudi Arabia is fully western aligned as a nation state.
Saudi Arabia saw the risk of going back to the sands as a country, they overcame those dangers by fully aligning with the west to the extent that Turkey has done in the past. The west practically owns the middle east. Especially now that Iran got cucked so hard by Israel that even their greatest extremists know their options are to either westernize or fail.
Saudi Arabia is going to be turned as liberal as Turkey to ensure good relations with the west. Iran is where Saudi Arabia used to be 20-30 years ago.
In 30 years time everything outside of Africa and China is going to be west aligned.
China's only winning strategy is that nobody says no to more trade and cheap infrastructure development, but the downside is that China won't have enough people to keep those enterprises alive internationally in the long term.
Israel is ready to destroy everybody it deems a threat. It is no longer willing to wait until it is hit. It is now in the state of preemptive strikes.
One should expect further escalation against Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza. The US remains under the misguided belief that Israel will deescalate the situation at any point before guaranteeing that Israel will never be hit again.
This current conflict either ends with all of the middle east being placated or Israel being destroyed.
With how weak the rivals of Israel have shown themselves to be, it appears to be more likely that Israel is going to win.
However, Israel does not have the numbers advantage to man the entire territories of Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria altogether at once. Which suggests that there will be another generation of anti-Israel young men who grow up to attack Israel.
Israel will never win until Iran is destroyed. Iran will never win until Israel is destroyed. Israel won't stop. The world will not take the side of Israel if it goes on to constantly attack a 100+ million people across the middle east in the name of self defense.
In conclusion, Israel has as its geopolitical strategy determined that it would rather lose the support of the global world order than to lose the war. Which means becoming a global pariah at the cost of destroying all western rivals in the middle east.
Conclusion:
Israel destroyed Iran. In turn Israel becomes a global pariah. Israel is fine with this as they believe they have the technological capability to become self-dependent as a nation state while still maintaining a good quality of life. Imagine a North Korea but competent and highly educated.
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No it doesn't r-slur Israel is not going to sacrifice a huge chunk of its population to fight a full scale multi-front war. What the frick are you smoking? If that happened Israel would see an exodus of their most capable and well-off people overnight.
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You r-slur Israel doesn't have to sacrifice a chunk of its population which is what they proved by destroying Hezbollah the past few weeks.
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Intelligence ops and assassinations can only go so far. It's great for destabilizing insurgencies that don't have the means to invade Israel, but to win vs states like Iran they will need to put boots on the ground like they did in the past and fight an armed conflict which will extract a death toll from both sides. Governments are much more difficult to defeat through assassinations since they have more people and more resilient structures. Just look how Iran's nuclear program has progressed despite all the assassinations of their scientists that have been going on for the past few decades.
Israel's best angle for this is to fund a proxy war to tie up Iran, but honestly it doesn't even seem like the Kurds or Azeris want to be pawns for Israel here. They have to hope that the USA goes full r-slur and tries to invade Iran for whatever goddarn reason.
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Nah. Israel is overconfident this time. They will definitely bomb Iran.
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Can you summarise this in four words or less?
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Israel is pitbull unleashed
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I don't get it, please elaborate.
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