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    WSJ: Golfstaaten steuern auf Krieg mit Iran zu, da Saudi-Arabien bevorstehenden Beitritt signalisiert | InvestingLive


    WSJ: Golfstaaten steuern auf Krieg mit Iran zu, da Saudi-Arabien bevorstehenden Beitritt signalisiert | InvestingLive

    https://investinglive.com/commodities/wsj-gulf-states-edge-toward-war-with-iran-as-saudi-signals-imminent-entry-20260324/

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    1. wdomeika on

      Meanwhile Trump had a cheeseburger and diet coke, then played another nine…

    4. ScienceTeacher1994 on

      Didn’t the Saudi military suffer a humilitating defeat against the Yemeni military, which has a fraction of the IRGC’s budget? I fail to see how they’re going to help the Americans and Israelis in this war…

    5. Southern-Reveal5111 on

      I can imagine the fear among Iranian generals. Hopefully, they take shelter in Moscow or Beijing.

      By the way, the article doesn’t say whether they plan to involve citizens in the war or if it will be the usual approach, fought by immigrants and funded by Gulf kings.

    7. giboauja on

      No sht, Irans been bombing them, wtf did Iran expect. I know reddit is like, lol based, but thats not how the gulf states feel.

    8. CircumspectCapybara on

      No duh, Iran f’d up by attacking all their previously unaligned and neutral, some even friendly neighbors, most of whom weren’t even being used by the US (bases or overflight) for their strikes (which all came from carriers).

      Iran attacked them anyway, destroying not only critical oil and industrial infrastructure (which is sure to make them see red), but also commercial ports, civilian airports, hotels, apartments. They went from neutral to decisively aligned in record time.

      After Iran blew up a high rise in the UAE (a previous lifeline of Iran), they responded by closing their embassy in Tehran and ending their diplomatic mission. All the gulf states who were previously neutral started pushing the US to neutralize Iran and gave them overflight rights and base usage for strikes, realizing they were living next to a madman and existential threat. Iran literally made the US‘ argument for them for why the regime and its IRGC needs to be pacified. Now it looks like they’re sick of Iran’s bs and are gearing up to hit back too.

      Idk what Iran’s plan was. Threaten all their neighbors, *“You better stop friendly to the US or I’ll continue to blow up your cities. You should ally with me instead 😇“* Even if Iran’s oil infra is spared, Iran’s soft power is all gone, because no one in the region will ever not seek their pacification henceforth. And Iran’s caused 100 years worth of normalization of Arab-Israeli relations in the span of a year.

    9. globalzee on

      Kind of shame to see the US and Israel started this illegal war and are now getting other countries to do the dirty work by putting boots on the ground, something they’re unwilling to do.

    11. SissyCouture on

      This article doesn’t really say much beyond the Saudis letting the US use their bases. There’s a sentence about SA and UAE now being a question not “if they’ll join but when” but then concludes with a risk itemization paragraph that takes out most of air from the article’s headline.

    12. jphamlore on

      I think what the Gulf states could most do to help is crash course work with the Ukrainians and do whatever they can to protect their oil, gas, and water infrastructure from drone attacks. Try and take away that card from Iran.

      And post war work with Ukraine and South Korea to start mass producing the defensive systems they will need to invest in, for the inevitable repeat.

    14. ztunelover on

      Kind of a risky play. Saudi has all the shiny toys, but their military is kind of a joke and relies on the intimidation factor of their top shelf equipment to keep adversaries away.

    16. madasfire on

      Uh oh. The Saudis are gonna go through there like a buzz saw in a journalist

    17. seclifered on

      I doubt it. The Iranians can just hit their desalination plant and their capital Riyadh would run out of water in a week.

    18. Strange_Drive_6598 on

      When Orange man loses interest or rather escape from this mess all of a sudden , Saudi will be done!

    21. therealallpro on

      I love how most Redditors were saying gulf states was going to turn against the US because they can’t protect them and now they have moved the goal post after the exact opposite happened

    22. Different-Fly4561 on

      I can’t believe that the whole region does not see the master plan all along from the Americans and Israelis was a complete chaotic, nightmarish conflict between Shias and Sunnis!! If the Saudis enters this insane war, it will be “mission accomplished” with no end in sight!!

    23. G0ldenG00se on

      I’m beginning to think rich people got bored and decided the best way to kick off world war was to attack Iran so they would close the straight. They knew this would happen.

    24. stentorius on

      Iran has targeted other Gulf states because of their alliance with the USA. They are now trapped between a rock and a hard place.

      On the one hand, if they do not act against Iran, they risk their water and energy and airport infrastructure getting bombed. If Iran bombs them (which they have threatened to do) that is an existential threat to them as nations.

      On the other hand, if a single state acts against Iran, Iran will target them all the more furiously.

      After all the dust settles in this USA-Israel Iran conflict, the Middle East still is not stable. Besides the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict and Israel’s neighbour issues, there is a jockeying of power among Saudi Arabia, Turkïye, Egypt, the UAE, and others. If any of them take serious long-term damage from this Iran conflict, it will affect their future in the region long-term as well.

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