Transcript [00:00] So, why aren't the Gulf States joining [00:02] the war? Why haven't they attacked yet? [00:05] That's a question that we're going to [00:06] answer in this video. But the main topic [00:09] we're going to deal with before we get [00:11] to that question and my my theory, my [00:14] ideas about it. So, stick around for [00:15] that. The main thing we're going to talk [00:17] about is the Saudis. The Saudis are [00:19] really annoyed at being attacked by the [00:22] Iranians. And we're going to get into [00:24] all the details. But before we do that, [00:26] please make sure to go over to [00:27] israel365charity.com. 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We'll get the [01:22] we'll get your dollars into the right [01:24] hands and it's a great way to [01:26] participate at this time with easing the [01:27] burden on the Israeli homeront. All [01:29] right, let's get right to this story. [01:31] So, we'll start with a statement from [01:33] the Saudi foreign minister [01:36] from earlier today. This is Saudi [01:39] Arabia's foreign minister earlier today. [01:42] Have a look at this. [01:46] can't I don't know how they claim to be [01:48] fighting for Islamic causes while [01:51] attacking Islamic countries. They are [01:53] not attacking a single nation. Saudi [01:55] Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, [01:59] Oman, [02:01] Lebanon, [02:03] Jordan, Aar Bejan, Turkey, [02:08] all these countries are Islamic [02:09] countries. Yet Iran attacks them. And [02:13] even before this war, what was Iran's [02:16] contribution in the issues related to [02:19] the Islamic world? [02:22] They support the Houthi militia in [02:23] Yemen. They supported the popular um [02:28] militia in Iraq who are and now they and [02:32] they are attacking Iraq. They are [02:34] attacking Iraq territories, Hezbollah [02:37] and Lebanon, [02:40] who didn't suffice by hijacking the [02:43] political decision in Lebanon, but [02:44] rather was an effective arm to to [02:49] perform sub sabotaging actions in in the [02:53] region and in Saudi Arabia. And the [02:56] biggest example is Iran and Hezbollah's [02:59] role in Syria. So, so where is such [03:04] support or so-called support in the [03:07] Muslim world when they commit such [03:10] crimes [03:13] uh and supporting the former Syrian [03:16] regime? When how do they support the [03:20] Islamic world when they assassinate [03:23] politicians in Lebanon? How do they [03:25] support the Muslim world's issues and [03:29] causes when they when they empower the [03:34] the popular mobilization forces in Iraq [03:40] hindering the development efforts in [03:44] Iraq? I can't see how they support the [03:47] Islamic causes. I believe these are [03:50] simple slogans which they hide behind it [03:54] and these tools they work to serve the [03:58] Iranian interest [04:02] rather than the slogans they claim. [04:04] Thank [04:06] >> Okay. Uh, so this is a little bit of a [04:09] game he's playing here because you [04:11] notice that he calls out their support [04:13] for their proxies across the region. And [04:15] he lists the Houthis in Yemen, [04:18] in Lebanon, the popular militias in [04:20] Iraq, and then later the Assad [04:24] government in Syria that was propped up [04:27] by the Iranians. [04:29] All of those, okay, the is Shiite. The [04:32] Houthis are Shiite. different kind of [04:35] Shiite than but they're Shiites as well. [04:37] The popular resistance or the popular [04:40] militias in Iraq also Shiites and the [04:43] Assad regime was Alawite sort of [04:46] secular. Okay, notice that that he [04:48] didn't mention Kamas which is a Sunni uh [04:51] terrorist group that was also a proxy or [04:54] funded and supported by the Iranian [04:56] regime. Notice he didn't call them out [04:57] for supporting Kamas. That also might [04:59] have to do with Israel and not signaling [05:01] that he's doing that he's being too pro- [05:03] Israel. But the reason I say it's a [05:04] little bit of a game is that if you've [05:06] been following this channel, you've been [05:07] following my videos, I've been talking [05:09] about this a fair bit lately that [05:12] Shiites and Sunnis see each other as [05:15] heretics. They don't see each other as [05:16] two denominations of the same religion [05:18] like reformed Jews and and Orthodox Jews [05:20] or or you know different kinds of [05:22] Protestants. [05:24] No, they don't see themselves as part of [05:25] the same religion at all. They actually [05:27] see themselves as as heretics, as Kufar. [05:30] Um there are many experts on Islam who [05:33] even say that Sunni and Shia Islam are [05:36] really like two different religions. Uh [05:38] they're that different. They have [05:39] different esquetology. They they've uh [05:42] the there's two chapters in this in this [05:45] in the Shia Quran that don't exist in [05:47] the Sunni Quran. So they're their [05:49] scriptures aren't even the same. And [05:51] what he's basically saying in this [05:52] speech here is they're not part of the [05:54] Muslim world. They have nothing to do [05:56] with Muslim interest. They're not part [05:57] of Islam. That's what he's really [05:59] signaling here. But this goes together [06:01] with what they're so upset about. The [06:03] reason that the statement was made today [06:05] is because of these attacks. Saudi [06:07] official warns patience is limited as [06:10] Iranian attacks Barrage Kingdom. Prince [06:12] Fisa bin Farhan, the foreign minister, [06:14] that's who we just saw in that clip, [06:16] said Saudi Arabia was prepared to take [06:18] military action if necessary after waves [06:21] of missiles, missile and drone attacks. [06:23] Now, in this New York Times headline, [06:25] that is a little that is not exactly [06:27] what he said. And I'll show you what I [06:28] mean. It's actually pretty I think it's [06:30] pretty significant. Hours after eight [06:32] ballistic missiles exploded over the [06:34] Saudi capital, the kingdom's foreign [06:35] minister warned that his government had [06:37] limited patience with Iran. And and this [06:41] should also be in quotes. I saw this [06:42] quote also on Arab News um which is a [06:47] Saudi [06:49] uh which is a Saudi owned news outlet [06:53] and there the reserved the right was [06:56] also in quote. So he actually said that [06:58] they reserve the right to take military [07:01] actions if deemed necessary, which is [07:03] different than saying they're prepared [07:05] to take military action. Uh is it a [07:08] subtle difference? Reserving the right [07:10] saying they're prepared to take military [07:11] action sounds like they're getting ready [07:13] to attack. And the fact that the the [07:16] statement was just that they reserve the [07:19] right to take military action and [07:20] they're losing patience. [07:23] What they're doing here is they're being [07:25] the Saudis. The Saudis are always very [07:27] slippery. You see, the Saudis and the [07:30] other Gulf states do not actually want [07:32] to attack the Iranians. They don't want [07:35] to be part of this kinetically. They [07:38] don't want to do that. Um, and even if [07:41] they do, I'm not sure that the Israelis [07:45] and the Americans want them to. I know [07:46] everyone's speculating, why haven't they [07:48] entered the war? They look like wimps. I [07:50] think the main purpose of this entire [07:51] statement was I is to cover the Saudi [07:55] Arabians from looking like wimps and [07:58] threatening to attack, making it seem [08:00] like they're threatening, but it's not a [08:01] direct threat. You notice he's just [08:03] saying that they're losing patience and [08:04] they reserve the right to take military [08:06] action. Then he says, "We will not shy [08:08] away from protecting our country and our [08:10] economic resources." [08:12] Now, when asked what would prompt a [08:15] military response, the prince declined [08:18] to elaborate. Quote, "Do they have a [08:21] day, two, a week? I'm not going to [08:24] telegraph that." [08:26] You see, this isn't really a threat of [08:28] kinetic action. It's a threat of a [08:31] threat of of kinetic action. He added [08:34] that what little trust there was between [08:36] the kingdom and Iran had been completely [08:38] shattered. the country's reestablished [08:40] diplomatic relations in 2023. [08:46] Okay, let me explain what that is about [08:48] because this is such important [08:49] background information. We almost don't [08:51] know what's going on unless we know it. [08:53] In Okay, let's go back to 2016, 10 years [08:55] ago. Let's just look at the last 10 [08:57] years. In early January of 2016, Saudi [09:01] Arabia executed a prominent Shiite [09:04] cleric named she named Sheh Nimmer al- [09:08] Nimmer along with dozens of others. [09:11] Iran's population and political figures. [09:13] So this was a Shiite cleric in Saudi [09:16] Arabia which is mostly Sunni. He was [09:18] executed. [09:21] Okay. So Iran's political figures were [09:24] outraged and there were demonstrations [09:26] in Tehran over this. A small group of [09:30] protesters in Iran stormed and burned [09:33] parts of the Saudi embassy and the [09:35] consulate in Iran which Saudi Arabia [09:38] viewed as a severe breach of diplomatic [09:41] norms. So in retaliation, [09:44] the Saudis severed diplomatic ties with [09:46] Iran at the time. That's 2016. They cut [09:48] off all diplomatic relations with Iran. [09:50] They expelled Iranian diplomats. They [09:53] closed their embassy in Tehran and that [09:56] caused a massive diplomatic crisis in [09:58] the Middle East which led directly to a [10:01] formal suspension of diplomatic [10:03] relations between the countries. So from [10:04] 2016, it wasn't just closing the [10:06] embassy. From 20 from 2016 to 2023, [10:10] there were no diplomatic relations [10:12] between Saudi Arabia and Iran, [10:16] which of course has a lot to do with the [10:18] sectarian disagreements that I mentioned [10:21] before about Shiite and Sunni, but also [10:23] just strategic rivalry between them. In [10:27] the middle of all this, on September [10:29] 14th, 2019, [10:32] Saudi Arabia's major oil installations [10:36] at Abcake and Kures, we'll get to that [10:38] in a minute where they are because it [10:40] matters here. They were hit by drone and [10:42] missile strikes. [10:44] Okay? And though, so this is 2019. So, [10:49] these strikes on Saudi on Saudi uh [10:52] assets that we saw today, which we'll [10:54] get into a little bit more, [10:56] those strikes on Saudi on Saudi assets [10:59] today, on Saudi oil refinery today, it [11:02] was not the first time that oil [11:04] installations were hit by the Iranians. [11:06] This is 2019. So, they were hit by drone [11:09] and missile strikes and that cut Saudi [11:11] oil production by about half at the [11:13] time. It was a major shock to global [11:14] energy markets. That's 2019. [11:17] And the Saudis and their western allies [11:19] blamed Iran or its proxies. They mainly [11:22] blamed it on the Houthis. [11:24] And Iran denied official involvement. [11:26] They denied direct involvement. Saudi [11:28] Arabia and Iran announced the [11:31] restoration of diplomatic relations [11:34] in 2023 in a deal that was mediated by [11:38] China. Okay, so that's important here. [11:40] Also, China brought the Saudis and the [11:42] Iranians back together. Both countries [11:45] at that time agreed to reopen their [11:47] embassies and resume full diplomatic [11:49] missions by mid 2023. [11:54] Okay. Now uh and it include like and [11:58] this this new friendship included a [12:00] visit by Iranian President Risi. He [12:03] visited Saudi Arabia and participating [12:06] together in important summits including [12:09] a summit uh an Islamic Arab summit on [12:12] Gaza that they were both at. And the [12:15] Saudi defense minister, Prince Khaled [12:17] bin Salman, delivered a direct message [12:19] from the Saudi king to Iran's Supreme [12:21] Leader Ayatollah Kamay emphasizing the [12:25] expansion of their bilateral ties and [12:27] cooperation. That was all part of it. [12:28] That there's a letter from the king to [12:30] the Supreme Leader. everyone's getting [12:31] along. And over the past couple of [12:34] years, Iranian and Saudi officials have [12:36] had regular bilateral talks about [12:38] regional security, about Yemen, about [12:41] about broader cooperation. So things [12:43] were actually in a very good place [12:45] before this war. Iran's foreign minister [12:49] visited Saudi Arabia for, you know, and [12:52] and that was unheard of in the years [12:54] before that. [12:59] Now um they also share interest in the [13:02] Palestinian cause as they've shown. So [13:04] there so they're so they were in a good [13:06] place before this war. In fact they were [13:08] in the best place they had been in many [13:09] many years. And let's remember it was [13:11] all brokered by the Chinese by the [13:14] Chinese Communist Party. Okay. So that's [13:16] the background on this whole u on this [13:20] whole relationship. [13:23] So let's put everything that's happening [13:25] now into that context. When when you see [13:27] the foreign minister get up there and [13:28] say they have nothing to do with Muslim [13:30] interests and and what are they doing [13:31] and they're attacking everyone. This [13:33] isn't a brand new breach. It's not like [13:35] they had been friends all along. Okay. [13:38] Now today, here's the big flap. A drone [13:42] crashed into Saudi Arabia's Samref [13:45] refinery. So what's this about? [13:48] A drone crashed into a refinery on Saudi [13:50] Arabia's Red Sea coast on Thursday. The [13:53] drone hit the Samref refinery in the [13:55] port of Yanbu, [13:58] a Ministry of Defense spokesman said, [14:00] adding that the damage assessment is [14:02] underway. Shortly before, the Ministry [14:05] said a ballistic missile launched [14:07] towards Yanbu Port was intercepted and [14:10] destroyed. So, there was a there was a [14:12] drone attack and there was an attempted [14:14] ballistic missile attack on Yanbu Port. [14:18] Yanboo, we'll get to it in a second. [14:19] We'll show you what it is. Samref is [14:22] equally owned is an equally owned um the [14:25] Samref refinery is an equally owned [14:27] joint venture between Saudi Aramco and [14:29] Exxon Mobile through its subsidiary [14:32] Mobile Yamboo Refining Company. Why is [14:33] that in here? Maybe to say that it's [14:35] also an American asset. It is one of the [14:37] leading refineries in the Middle East [14:39] producing more than 400,000 [14:41] barrels per day of Arabian light crude [14:44] oil. The refinery's location on the Red [14:46] Sea [14:48] is on the opposite side of the kingdom [14:50] from the Arabian Gulf and is not [14:52] restricted by Iran's blockade of the [14:54] Straits of Hormuz. [14:56] The attack comes as Iran continues to [14:58] target energy facilities in Arab Gulf [15:00] countries in response to an Israeli [15:02] attack on their main gas field on [15:04] Wednesday. [15:07] And then it talks about how the other [15:09] Gulf states have been sh have have have [15:11] had had have suffered damage to their [15:12] oil to their uh to their oil refineries [15:16] and their oil assets. Drones continue to [15:19] be intercepted and destroyed elsewhere [15:20] in Saudi Arabia throughout Thursday. [15:25] Okay. And then uh yeah, that's that's [15:27] that. So, let me explain what's going on [15:29] here. Let's pull out a map. [15:32] Let's pull out a map. Okay. [15:36] So, where is Yanboo? Yanu is here. Okay, [15:40] let me zoom in on that. [15:44] You see that? [15:47] This is right here. This is Yanboo. [15:52] Okay. Right here. Yanboo. This is Yanboo [15:55] right here. Yanboo. Now, let's zoom out [15:57] and see where it is. Okay. Let's zoom [16:00] out. [16:02] So, Yanboo is right here. [16:05] Iran is up here. Here's this where this [16:08] red thing is. That's the that's where [16:09] the straits of Hormuz are. Okay, that's [16:11] the Straits of Hormuz. That's where all [16:12] the action is. Okay. So you have here is [16:16] Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab [16:18] Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iran up here and [16:22] all the fighting the Americans trying to [16:25] open the Straits of Hormuz. All the oil [16:27] coming out of Kuwait, coming out of [16:29] Bahrain, Qatar, Emirates, all this oil [16:33] flows through the Straits of Hormuz. And [16:35] that's why this is the big headline [16:36] these days where the Iranians are trying [16:38] to disrupt their whole strategy. And [16:41] I've talked about this even before the [16:42] war. Iran's whole strategy is to drive [16:45] up the price of oil, which they're doing [16:46] successfully, to prolong the war and [16:49] make this thing as painful for President [16:51] Trump economically, diplomatically, and [16:54] in every way possible so that the war [16:56] ends before the regime falls. That is [16:58] their strategy, plain and simple. [17:00] They're not trying to win. They're [17:01] trying to cause major disruptions around [17:03] the world. They're also 12 Rashiites and [17:06] looking for chaos because that's all [17:08] part of their religious view. But you [17:10] see you see so you see the the Straits [17:12] of Warm moves and the Iranians are [17:14] flying a firing a ballistic missile all [17:16] the way across Saudi Arabia to Yanbu all [17:20] the way down here [17:22] and firing a drone at it. Why are they [17:25] going after Yanboo? Wh what? Well, you [17:27] might say because it's a big refinery. [17:30] But there are major oil fields when I I [17:34] just gave you that history and about how [17:36] in 2019 the Houthis attacked oil assets [17:40] in in uh in Saudi Arabia and the [17:43] Iranians were blamed. So you might think [17:45] that the Houthis attacked something near [17:46] them. No, they did not. What they [17:49] attacked the two names given in that [17:51] story that I just read were Kures and [17:53] Abakik. So where are Kures and Abak? Let [17:56] me show you. Cures [17:59] is the same map with cures marked off. [18:02] Here's cures. [18:04] Look where it is. [18:06] Here's Iran. Here's the straits of [18:08] Hormuz. Yanboo is all the way over here. [18:11] And the And in 2019, the Kur oil field [18:14] was attacked. And Abake, which is even [18:17] further away. Abacake's right here. [18:19] Okay. Abacake is here. And Kur is here. [18:23] Cura Ramco, that's what it's even [18:25] called. It's even named after the uh uh [18:28] the airport's named after the oil [18:30] company. Okay. So, what's going on? Why [18:32] are they going after Yamboo? Why don't [18:34] they just attack Abake and Kures? Why [18:36] are they attacking Yanbu? Well, this has [18:39] to do with what Yanbu is. So, there is a [18:41] pipeline. There's a pipeline called the [18:44] East West Crude oil pipeline that was [18:47] built by the Saudis. Uh I'll just read [18:50] from Wikipedia just the opening couple [18:51] sentences here. The East West pipeline, [18:53] also known as a petrol line, is 746 mi [18:56] long and it runs from the Abuk oil field [18:58] in eastern province near Bahrain and [19:00] Qatar on the Persian Gulf Coast across [19:03] the width of the Arabian Peninsula to [19:05] Yanbu at the Red Sea. Here's the key [19:07] sentence. It was built during the Iran [19:10] Iraq war in the 1980s to allow Saudi [19:12] Arabian oil exports to bypass the tanker [19:16] war and the straight of Hormuz. So here, [19:19] let me explain. Here is the pipeline. [19:22] There is a pipeline that runs from Abake [19:27] all the way across. You see it comes [19:29] down a little bit. So it picks up oil [19:30] also at cures and it goes all the way [19:33] across to Yanbu. [19:36] And the point of it is because here's [19:39] Oman, here's the UAE, Saudi Arabia has a [19:43] coast in the Persian Gulf and it has a [19:45] coast in the Red Sea. [19:47] So the whole point of this pipeline is [19:49] to not depend on the straits of Hormuz [19:51] that they can instead of putting their [19:53] oil out into the Persian Gulf even [19:55] though the oil fields are very close to [19:56] the Persian Gulf, they can send the oil [19:58] through the pipeline [20:00] and have it come out to the water and [20:03] then either go south and out this way to [20:04] the east or it can go up into the Suez [20:06] Canal or up to the the port of Aot [20:09] through the pipeline to Ashkalone out to [20:10] the Mediterranean out to Europe. That's [20:13] the point of this pipeline. The UAE [20:15] built a similar pipeline, a shorter [20:16] pipeline because the UAE [20:19] uh the very tip [20:22] up here, the very tip up here is not [20:25] UAE. It's part of Oman. Oman is actually [20:27] split. It owns the tip here on the [20:29] Straits of Hormuz and then it's down [20:31] here. So the UAE built a pipeline to its [20:34] coast outside the Straits of Hormuz also [20:36] to circumvent the Straits of Hormuz. [20:38] Okay, but that's not that's not [20:39] necessarily relevant to the Saudi [20:40] Arabian topic that we're discussing. [20:42] Okay. So, you see how So, so now we got [20:44] it, right? We have uh the Iranians are [20:49] trying to sabotage. Why' they fire a [20:52] drone at Yandu? Now, it should make [20:53] perfect sense. They are trying [20:58] They are trying the Samurai refinery in [21:00] Yamu is the end of the line. That's [21:02] where the crude oil that comes through [21:04] that pipeline gets refined on the [21:07] western coast by the Red Sea before [21:10] going off to Europe or wherever else [21:12] it's going to go. And the Iranians are [21:14] trying to cause maximum disruption to [21:17] global oil prices. So this escape route [21:22] for oil as it were, this pipeline that [21:24] the Saudis are now ramping up and using, [21:27] it has a capacity of uh maybe 7 million [21:31] barrels a day at most, which is not [21:33] enough. Uh it's not enough to uh you [21:36] know to undo the damage of closing the [21:37] Straits of Hormuz, but it is enough to [21:40] mitigate it to mitigate the damage. So [21:42] the Iranians are attacking Yanbu port to [21:46] prevent to prevent oil from getting out [21:49] that way. That's what that is all [21:51] actually about. [21:53] Now, just uh you know, to round out the [21:58] picture here, here's a video. Here's a a [22:00] short clip of Saudi Crown Prince [22:04] Muhammad bin Salman years ago talking [22:09] about [22:10] uh talking about Ali Kamay on 60 [22:13] Minutes. [22:15] >> Iran is not a rival to Saudi Arabia. Its [22:18] army is not among the top five armies in [22:20] the Muslim world. The Saudi economy is [22:22] larger than the Iranian economy. Iran is [22:25] far from being equal to Saudi Arabia. [22:27] >> But I've seen that you called the [22:29] Ayatollah Kami the new Hitler of the [22:32] Middle East. [22:34] >> Absolutely. [22:35] >> Why? [22:37] >> Because he wants to expand. He wants to [22:39] create his own project in the Middle [22:41] East. Very much like Hitler who wanted [22:43] to expand at the time. Many countries [22:45] around the world and in Europe did not [22:47] realize how dangerous Hitler was until [22:49] what happened happened. I don't want to [22:51] see the same events happening in the [22:53] Middle East. [22:54] >> Does Saudi Arabia need nuclear weapons [22:56] to counter Iran? [22:59] >> Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire [23:00] any nuclear bomb. But without a doubt, [23:03] if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we [23:05] will follow suit as soon as possible. [23:09] >> Okay. [23:11] So, we see there's no love loss. Now, I [23:12] said at the beginning of this video that [23:14] I would give you my take on why the Gulf [23:19] States, the Saudis included, have not [23:21] entered the war. And I actually don't [23:23] believe they will kinetically. So, I'll [23:26] give you a few reasons because people [23:27] have been talking about this. I even [23:29] someone said to me today in the office, [23:31] uh, hey, you know, you know, are they [23:33] wimps? How come they're not joining the [23:34] war? And you might notice that President [23:36] Trump has not been criticizing them for [23:38] not joining the war. He's been [23:40] criticizing the Europeans for not [23:41] helping out with the Straits of Warmuz, [23:43] but he's not criticizing the Gulf States [23:45] who are also being protected by the [23:48] Americans. He's not criticizing them for [23:49] not joining the war. So, here's my [23:52] theory. My theory is that the Israelis [23:57] and the Americans have a very complex [24:01] and detailed cooperation going on, [24:03] right? This whole war, they're working [24:05] side by side. their armies are working, [24:07] you know, you know, they're dividing up [24:09] responsibilities of who's bombing what [24:11] and and and now they're actually working [24:14] on on different projects. The Americans [24:16] are focused and Hormuz and Car Island [24:18] and the Israelis are more focused on [24:20] regime targets and uh continuing to [24:23] degrade the ballistic missile uh [24:25] launchers and and uh and other things on [24:27] the homeland in Iran and and uh and [24:31] knocking out the IRGC wherever they are. [24:32] Those are but the point is that the [24:36] Americans and the Israelis are working [24:38] handinand glove very complex uh [24:41] cooperation and battle plans. What are [24:44] they going to do if the if the Saudis [24:46] and the Kuwaitis and the Qataris decide [24:48] that they want to get involved? What [24:49] they're going to they're going to get [24:50] into the situation room and incorporate [24:52] their militaries into this complex [24:54] partnership? Do they even have the [24:56] capabilities that the Israelis and [24:57] Americans have? I don't think the [24:59] Americans and the Israelis want the Gulf [25:02] States getting involved. It'll it it [25:04] adds in other elements to the military [25:07] activity, to the kinetic activity that [25:09] they might not want to deal with. I [25:12] don't think they want those militaries [25:13] involved. What are they going to add? [25:14] What is it? Is there part of the job [25:16] that they can't that the Israelis and [25:18] Americans can't handle themselves that [25:20] these Qatari pilots are going to be able [25:23] to handle? That these Saudi pilots are [25:25] going to be able to handle? I don't [25:27] think it does anything for the war [25:28] effort and I don't think the Americans [25:30] and Israelis need them around helping [25:32] out. [25:34] Now, I'll also add that as an Israeli, I [25:36] don't want them involved because if this [25:40] is a co, think about it politically. If [25:42] this is a coalition of a whole bunch of [25:44] nations fighting Iran, if that's what [25:45] this turns into rather than the US and [25:48] Israel partnership fighting Iran, which [25:50] it's been until now, if it's a whole [25:52] coalition, then when the dust settles, [25:57] Israel is not part the victory is less [26:00] Israel's. I'm not just talking about [26:01] credit, but the way things tend to work [26:04] is that the old fashioned term is to the [26:06] victor goes the spoils, but basically [26:09] the the victorious side does have some [26:13] ability to dictate terms and right now [26:15] it's it's a partnership between the [26:17] Israelis and Americans to add in the [26:19] element of these other these other Arab [26:21] nations who will now say that they were [26:23] part of the victory over Iran that what [26:25] leverage does it give them in the [26:27] decisionmaking that takes place after [26:29] the war is over. I don't want that. Why [26:32] would anyone want that on our side? And [26:34] there's other ways that these nations [26:36] can help the war effort. They can help [26:37] the war effort uh with uh economically. [26:41] They can help the war effort in terms of [26:43] messaging. Statements like the statement [26:45] today from the foreign minister. There's [26:47] there's various intelligence using their [26:50] territory. There's all kinds of other [26:52] ways that they can help diplomatically. [26:55] All kinds of ways that they can help [26:56] that don't involve kinetic helping out [26:58] kinetically. I understand why they have [27:00] the me why they have to put out the [27:01] messaging that they're willing to, but [27:03] I'm not so sure we even want them in the [27:05] fight. So, that's my take on the whole [27:07] Saudi situation. Let me know what you [27:09] think. Drop a comment in there and [27:11] please uh continue to share and like and [27:13] subscribe and all that jazz. I really [27:16] appreciate it. God bless.
