Keep in mind that journalism in Saudi Arabia is tightly controlled by the government, so this is probably MBS whining because KSA might get drawn into the war he lobbied so intensely for.
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I'm a bit confused with MBS lobbying for the Iran war. He seemed to start loosening his UAE coalition and bombing the UAE proxies in Yemen which indicated him possibly being more open to cooperating with non-US backed allies. But now there's allegations that he was actually lobbying for a war with Iran which doesn't seem to benefit him at all. Maybe Israel threatened him with some Epstein files.
Never heard of Israel attacking an ally before. At least, not one I’m at Liberty to discuss…
Wasn't there a report the other day implying that the sauds wanted the US to attack too?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/28/trump-iran-decision-saudi-arabia-israel/
It feels more likely that two regional powers see an opportunity to remove another regional power.
Honestly if all those gulf monarchies and autocracies want to just slug it out with each other… I’d just as soon step back and not be involved. Unfortunately, our idiot fucking regime has us involved up to our eyeballs.
Where there is oil, your country will always be involved. It's the blood of America and there's no indication of fixing that. This is one of the nation's many likely options for downfall.
The monarchies likely wouldn't. No, this isn't the US being involved.
... it's the US and Israel being the cause. The Saudis are dragged in due to an alliance with Trump and a desire to participate in the imec trade corridor.
My point is that I am hoping this doesn’t end up being the nexus of a global conflict (yes, WW3 is what I mean), but I’m a bit worried that it’s going to wind up that way.
War in the middle east is pretty common.
Your point being?
The commenter above me was worried it's the start of WW3. I don't think it is.
Oh, ok
Israel may attack them to have a war.