They have some expensive toys that they have little experience or ability to actually use well, and they think that you can adequately defend yourself by just spending money.
I don't believe that for a second.
You are quite right about the involvement of BAE.
I hear they have chemical weapons that can be launched with 15 mins notice as well... And don't even start on the known unknowns... Let alone the unknown unknowns
Bring back Colin Powell to go to the UN!
You can't even trust Trump to tell you the weather so I'm not believing anything they say on this.
Sounds a lot like the transfer forum.
This is the most logical theory, although there's no reason to be completely against the idea that the Saudis and the Americans did it, either.
The Huthis claimed it.
Fair enough. I only read one or two posts above the bottom anyway.
I think if we accept their claim, we have to accept that they had Iranian support and probably direction, given the scale/sophistication of the attack which appears to be way beyond anything they’ve done before. If not, then we have to ask why they’d make such a claim - to provide cover for the Iranians?
Sure, that's how proxy conflicts work but if the Saudis weren't messing about in Yemen then this wouldn't have happened, right?
It’s unlikely, although it’s a difficult question to even contemplate since the Saudis have been messing about in Yemen for as long as the current Saudi state has existed, and that messing is one of the factors which produced the Huthis in the first place.
I’m a little confused by why the Saudis should be given free rein to bomb the shit out of Yemen, but Iran helping Yemen would be some huge crime.
Because for reasons which I’m sure you understand, the Saudis have successfully sold the narrative in Western capitals that Iranian support for the Huthis is just one element of a broader Iranian regional agenda which has seen Tehran come to dominate four Arab capitals over the last fifteen years, and in doing so surround Gulf oil fields to a certain extent.
Patriots work best against missiles on predictable ballistic trajectories. Can’t see how they could defend against slow moving drones which you could program to change course randomly if you wanted.
Well there is some truth to that analysis to be fair. Iran does see itself as a regional power which would naturally put it into opposition with Saudi Arabia. The US swing to Iran under Obama, the dwindling reliance of the US on Saudi oil... all factors. Saudi has worked hard to play up the Iranian threat and Trump fell for it hookline, nixed the nuclear deal and put Saudi interests back in the driving seat of US policy.
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such a troll"It's just I never heard of them hitting anything this big before."
During the Clone Wars when they were all Jango Fett level troopers? By the time of the OT they were just your average recruits. Since Obi-Wan had been living in a cave for twenty years it's understandable that he'd be unaware of your run if the mill stormtrooper's lack of accuracy.
also if was missiles then US radar and missile interception failed I think US should buy some from the Russians.Pretty much all air defence systems are next to useless against small drones. Systems like the Patriot are designed to defend against ballistic missiles or aircraft. That's the major threat, and you can't have something with the speed and power to catch those with the maneuvarability to chase a drone around.
Why is it hard to believe. They're being dicks because they've had sanctions put on them.
Could be Iran but I don't think the move is a dick move purely because it's SA and my first reaction regarding them is feck SA.
Have you learned nothing from the illegal war in Iraq. Both Saudi and Israel have interest in seeing war in Iran. And are you seriously saying i must now believe Trump and his Administration , who lie on a second to second basis.
I'm less cynical in general. Hell of a jump to make from them having an interest in a war with Iran to actively staging attacks on their own targets. The way I see it is the easiest explanation is probably closer to the truth and as far as I can tell Iran are probably being dicks over oil. That's a non-expert opinion though!
Don’t think anyone is suggesting that, just that there’s no reason as of yet to believe Pompeo’s claim that the attack came from Iranian territory, which the Saudis now seem reluctant to support.
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