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Originally Posted by _Richard_
ahh that's why, sorry. Say "Saudi" and you might as well be saying "USA". same with kuwait etc
people are treading carefully due to the Arab Spring.. was very hard for 'them' to spin that in a way that could be deemed beneficial, and yet the lid keeps popping off. (renewed egypt protests etc)
Think in the next 2 years you're gonna see another series of immolation, and this time replacing your puppets with x-cia agents isn't going to go over so well
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Well, I was referring to Sunni governed nations in the ME and Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, etc, are indeed the primary ones at the moment regardless of their alignment to the West. And their motivation was most likely again countering Iran rather than simply toadying up to the West. Was the support done with tacit support of the West & USA? Almost definitely. Done with *active* support of the West? Debatable, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't covert assistance there.
I think on this topic we're pretty much in agreement though. Where I might diverge is - what do we do from here? IMO totally walking away from this conflict isn't going to result in "they'll just all pack up and go home" as WHP claims, this has real danger of blowing up into a regional conflict. At the same time, a No Fly Zone is fairly unpalatable too and yeah it's rightfully not going to go over well with certain parties. Yet the factions involved seem to have no interest in reconciling or giving up whatever power they've gained or still possess. So where do you go from here?
It's a sticky situation, in some ways over a century in the making.