So Saudi Arabia declares Jihad against Russia again....

[Maximus Testiculos]

Last time I tried to understand it it was about I think Ali being the legitimate ancestor or not mainly.

Muslims really should stop giving a damn about who was supposed to be the caliph. It is not even an islamic rule, an entirely political thing that turned into pointless blood feud.

[ringpriest]

If Saudis aren't careful they'll get blessed by the Arab spring, like it happened in Syria and Libya.

I think a worst case scenario, where there are terror attacks smashing oil infrastructure across the peninsula, Houthi irregulars (and possibly whats left of the Yemeni Army) are attacking across the border in the south, ISIS is rolling across the border with Iraq and trying for Mecca, while Iran uses Iraq as a front to grab the oilfields (doubtless "for the security of the Shia population") and all while the Russians "accidentally" bomb any organized Saudi military resistance would be more an Nightmare than a "Spring" of any sort, but it would very much be one which the hereditary dictatorship in Riyadh has created for itself.

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Not happening, as much as I would love that to happen.

Airstrikes can not do it, at best they will contain their spread. You need actual army on the ground and Syrian army barely has the means to hold whatever little they have left.

Which would be why Hezbollah and Iran have been sending in ground troops as fast as they can:"Iranian troops and Hezbollah 'massing in Syria for ground battle against rebels'" - the Moscow-Damascus-Tehran-Baghdad axis has their cannon fodder. Now, whether or not it will actually work (and exactly what it's intended to do...) is another question, but there's certainly a coup de main in progress. What I really don't know is if whether the Russians (and company) intend to just push and keep pushing until Assad's regime is secure and all the Islamists are wiped out (basically, the Second Chechen War, Syria variation, which will be really, really ugly), or if they're going to try and push the Islamic State elsewhere (also ugly, but differently so) - I just can't help thinking about how much Russia would benefit (via oil price), if Saudi Arabia's "family oil syndicate masquerading as a government" were to develop large, ISIS-flavored stability and security problems (I suppose a telling factor will be watching what happens to Raqqah as the war progresses).

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"Saudi King Salman hospitalized after erratic behavior"

Saudi King Salman, said to suffer from dementia, was hospitalized after “he went crazy” and attempted to injure himself, sources said.

Arabic-language al-Ahd news agency reported on Oct. 8 that the 79-year-old Salman was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) section of King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. Sources said Salman had to be restrained and placed under heavy sedation.

Due to the king’s unstable condition, Saudi officials have called off plans to move Salman to a U.S. hospital, the sources said.

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Can't wait for the shitskins to piss off Putin and get fucking obliterated.

If Isis goal was to wipe white men, i would have not hated them much.

You know, you whites got the whole earth against you soon. Keep up the good work and dont forget to put up the KKK costumes.

Funny how even the wellbehaved immigrants are hating whites more and more.

[Ulmita]

If Isis goal was to wipe white men, i would have not hated them much.

You know, you whites got the whole earth against you soon. Keep up the good work and dont forget to put up the KKK costumes.

Funny how even the wellbehaved immigrants are hating whites more and more.

Don't get into the hate trip bro. The guy who wrote the "shitskin" comment is a moron and he deserves to get banned. We have no problem with skin color.

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[Ehrenpanzer]

If Isis goal was to wipe white men, i would have not hated them much.

You know, you whites got the whole earth against you soon. Keep up the good work and dont forget to put up the KKK costumes.

Funny how even the wellbehaved immigrants are hating whites more and more.

1) Even more amusing how you feel the need to specifically denote that there are "well-behaved" immigrants
2) Snorting derisively at racism...then making generalized racist remarks...yeah..so you are what...13?
3) When did a couple maladjusted arabs constitute anything resembling a large swath of the planet?