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Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?
Saudi Arabia is the MOST incompetent of the whole bunch!
It just doesn't matter because they literally have more money than God.
They're so ultra-inbred incompetent that they literally founded, funded and armed a terrorist group that made their first and foremost goal the fall of Saudi Arabia under an Islamic caliphate.
They learned to stay out of wars decades ago, because they're too mentally damaged to fight them.
I mean, until they tried to genocide Yemen, and of course got their asses handed to them by unarmed goat-herders who are still infinitely less trash.
The Saudis fought in the first Gulf War (though not in the second one). There were Iraqi incursions in northeast KSA near the Kuwaiti border, and Scud missile attacks on Dhahran/Al-Khobar. I am acquainted with a US general who commanded a tank battalion in that war. He said one of their orders was to shoot the Saudi tanks if they tried to run and hide. He said they had to do that twice before the rest got the message.
With the exception of some of the Bedouins, Saudis are soft. Yemenis are mean, qat-chewing sons of bitches who've been through a long civil war and who all seem to own AK47s. MBS's genocide is accomplished entirely by aerial bombardment of largely civilian populations. Fighting house-to-house in Yemen would incur too many casualties, even if the Saudi armed forces were at the top of their game, which they most decidedly are not.
You seem wildly confused what competence we're talking about here. Saudi Arabia by far is the most competent Middle East country when it comes to building relationships with the west, no?
First of all no, that'd be the UAE, but more importantly you don't need competence to build relationships with the West; you need to be a fucking sellout. Which most of the region is, but still, it's not a matter of competence.
Yes geopolitics is about selling out to the evil capitalism scary spooky west! Don't trip over your tank tracks.
When that geopolitics comes at the cost of ignoring an ongoing genocide on your doorstep (and a litany of other, less flashy manifestations of Western tyranny), yes that's true.
No.