“I’d love to be a fly on the wall at the NRO today and see what’s going on in Russia and Iran right now.”
Zeke 38?
‘Zeke 38?’
Not yet. If Russia takes out Saudi Arabia, using Iran to hold the ground there, their short term problems are solved.
Russia and Iran are tight, and share a border. If they come through Basra, they can literally drive straight to Riyadh, and then through to Mecca and Medina. Once the Shiites control the KSA, convincing the Jordanians that Israel is a relationship they no longer require will be easier. Jordan is Sunni, so maybe they just invade Jordan and stop at the Israeli border so that they can get ready to put the final slam on Israel.
They hate the Sunnis worse than they do the Jews. KSA is killing Russia and all her nominal allies. Russia and Iran’s interests have never been more aligned than they are right now.
The reason why we aren’t arming the Kurds they way we ought to is because Turkey would love nothing more than to exterminate the Kurds. Iran’s down for that too.
Nope, the KSA is the biggest problem they have right now, and the KSA can pump day and night for a long, long time with $800B in cash reserves available to them.
If something military is going to happen, it will happen soon, and it will happen to Riyadh, not Israel.
That is, unless the KSA announces a military alliance with the Israelis. I don’t see that happening - ever.
If you look at a map, Russia, Turkey, and Iran form a geographical axis. What Russia couldn’t do through Afghanistan, they’ll do through Iraq, with Iran’s help. If the Iranians come through Iraq, Iraq won’t lift a finger to stop them. The entire country of Iraq is dissolving into provinces as we speak.
They will bypass Kuwait to their left, and they will cut through to Riyadh, and then on to Mecca.
THEN, they will regroup, and they will form an army that will march through Medina, and onto Jordan and Israel. Jordan will likely sit it out, and they may or may not be spared. They will sue for peace.
Israel will be alone. Then Zeke 38 will take place. They will literally be surrounded on all sides.
That’s my take. That’s how you do it with the most amount of motivated people on your side of things, and the least amount of time militarily. If the ONLY thing you have to do is to move through the southern tip of Iraq instead of all the way across Afghanistan, that’s the way you are going to do it.
If you start by bombing Riyadh, you get the price of oil up immediately. Once the supply dries out, people will buy Russian/Iranian oil. By people, I mean Europe.
US isn’t ready to replace the output. THAT was seen to by Obola. IF the Keystone pipeline had been built, then there is a chance we could have replaced the KSA’s missing crude in the market. No way we can do that as it stand now. We still get 4% from the KSA, down from more than 20% in the 1980’s.