Message from @UnfilteredGarbage
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The Sauds are taking quite a beating.
Haven't seen such gross ineptitude in dealing with sophisticated military equipment and nepotism in the ranks since the South Vietnamese military in the Vietnam War.
The Saudis will be quick to beg for American aid if Houthi activity escalates
VIETNAM 2:ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
Saudi Arabia is desperately trying to diversify its economy because of the unsustainability of oil, and the fact that the Middle East's shipping lanes are just the fucking wild west
Seems like a good time to try Peace in the Middle East 2: *Economic Imperialism*
A Gulf Of Tonkin is just begging to happen to escalate this.
@UnfilteredGarbage Do you think American aid would end in another "Vietnam"?
@ashzeppelin unlikely, more like just another War on Terror
Considering the previous War On Terror still hasn't ended yet
In the grim darkness of the sand dunes, there is only War
Plus unlike the Taliban and more like the Viet Cong, the Houthis have much more popular support of the Yemeni citizens.
We won't make the same mistake we did in Vietnam again. Naval blockade + infinite bombing campaign = victory
"Infinite Bombing Campaign"
Isn't that what happened in Operation Rolling Thunder and Linebacker?
VC simply retreated to the ingenious Ho Chi Minh trail during bombing raids.
Although I see a "Tet Offensive" ending this war, it essentially means the Iranians would have to directly intervene.
We didn't have drones in Vietnam
Plus there's really no landscape features to hide behind in the ME
Except the mountainous regions, I guess.
We have MOABs to drop on the mountains
But you're maybe right, Digging tunnels out there isn't so easy.
But again, the benefit to dealing with the Saudis is that they're vulnerable to economic imperialism
They need economic diversification and foreign aid to stay afloat, meaning we can heavily influence their social policies
Just hope people don't lose their minds over this and there's no coup in the Saudi military
In 1963 there was a god damn coup in Saigon because of our and the CIA's "influence"
The saudi military practically doesn't exist. They're more a Royal Guard than anything. America supplies Saudi Arabia with all of its weapons, but would also have to either be the ones to field them or completely manage their military for them.
That doesn't look good. Absolutely no self-sufficiency if pushed to the limit.
That's the crisis Saudi Arabia is facing, and why they're very vulnerable to suggestion now that OPEC is collapsing
America needs to capitalize on that before Russia or, god forbid, China undercuts us
Um what
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Trump's opposition has always been a very vocal minority of wokists and mudrakers
Now that we've had 4 years of him and nothing has collapsed, people are less interested in the wokeisms and mudraking
where is these pollings done
its CBS hosted so i doubt its an actual representation of anything
Just hope there's no excess deployment of troops out there in the ME. Vets and the military community do form a considerable base in his support.
how many is 'among americans'