NIKK, good thread by @drawandstrike on Trump and Saudi Arabia.
There’s two big dogs in the ME, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Trump kinda made it clear already which big dog he’s backing.
So of course Gabbard and the Dems and the Ron Paul wing of the GOP want to go back to the Obama days
Chief among the nations in the region that didn’t like the idea of being the vassal state of a Russia-backed Iranian nuclear power was Saudi Arabia.
So the Gulf Cooperation Council formed, chiefly as a way to pool resources to guarantee security in the region & check Iran
Way back in early 2009, when the Saudi king met Obama for the first time & took his measure, he realized one thing:
Obama not only wasn’t going to HELP check Iran, he was going to FACILITATE the rise of Iran.
All Obama wanted to talk about was Israel.
One of the very first things that Trump did upon assuming the Presidency was facilitate a huge Saudi arms deal that makes their military the most advanced in the region.
Now, our media does what it usually does. It takes our enemies & builds them up far beyond reality.
But conventionally the best military in that region is not Iran.
Far from it. The best military in the Middle East is the combined GCC forces, which keep a low profile and often deploy as local or regional forces in places like Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere.
It was not the US Military ground forces grabbing ISIS by the belt buckle and getting up close and personal in house to house fighting in places like Mosul in Iraq and Syria.
We were air and arty support only.
What Trump does is be the lightening rod, hold the attention, and let other people work quietly behind the scenes.
So sure, hell yes Trump publicly takes credit for ISIS being wiped out. And the GCC is fine with it. It’s a partnership.
So a lot of the people who follow the US news media are buying into the idea that Iran has the best military in the region, and if the US leaves, they are going to EASILY dominate all their neighbors.
That’s not what’s going to happen.
The very first foreign trip Trump made was to Saudi Arabia, and all anybody remembers about it is one photo:.....
Me.... just part of his comments, goes along with what we’ve been posting.
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1214610900293967873
Evidently, the libs are mad at Liawatha Warren for admitting to Megan that Sollydude WAS, in fact, a terrorist.
One of the replies, sums up all we need to know, about the fantasyland that libs live in...
He was a General & a Diplomat. Of course he killed Americans because he was fighting for our enemies. I understand he also wiped out Isis. He was both our enemy and ally. Terrorist is a word that we use to demonize our enemies.— johnboy (@yobnhoJ71) January 7, 2020
You CANNOT make this cr@p up. They truly are UNHINGED.