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0 pointsPay089h ago0 comments

Actually, Saudi Arabia might get involved.

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they couldn't defeat much smaller and weaker Yemen.

Pay08OP8h ago

That doesn't mean they can't be useful, and they do already have a chip on their shoulder wrt Iran because of Iran's support for the Houthis.

Yemen situation is just good indication of how useful they could be, and answer is not much. They don't have good functioning military.

well with all the oil money, saudis and UAE don't even have to send their own citizens:

they can just pay gurkha mercenaries for the job

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they couldn't defeat much smaller and weaker Yemen.

Pay08OP8h ago

That doesn't mean they can't be useful, and they do already have a chip on their shoulder wrt Iran because of Iran's support for the Houthis.

Yemen situation is just good indication of how useful they could be, and answer is not much. They don't have good functioning military.

well with all the oil money, saudis and UAE don't even have to send their own citizens:

they can just pay gurkha mercenaries for the job

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse