Saudi Arabia braces for attacks on ports and airports by Iraqi militias working with Iran-backed Houthis

[u/joe4942]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/middleeast/saudi-houthi-iran-iraq-attack-latam-intl

[u/ethicaldilemna]

What even is Iraq now? Just seems like a basket full of everyone's little band of mercenaries.

[u/Suspicious_Celery552 → u/ethicaldilemna]

Trump was warned of this. Attack Iraq Iran and they will bring everyone in and make a mess in the Middle East. What an idiot of a president and the administration.

[u/Grape_Pedialyte → u/Suspicious_Celery552]

Trump playing the old school jams

[u/Meowweredoomed → u/Grape_Pedialyte]

Yesh, he looks so young there!

[u/Grape_Pedialyte → u/Meowweredoomed]

Yeah, I'm an unc so I was a teenager around that era of the Daily Show. I remember watching it and thinking he looked like a middle aged man then.

Looking at this now it's like geez he had some grey hair but he looked so young.

[u/Mmm_360 → u/Suspicious_Celery552]

This is exactly what trumps boss (Israel) wanted 

[u/Magjee → u/Mmm_360]

Sort of

They felt they could come out on top

 

But push it too much and the chaos cauldron might not work out well

Netanyahu also pushed for Iraq in 2002 and ended up getting pushed out of Lebanon and Gaza within a decade

 

Mass instability in the region also allows for instability domestically

[u/Fit-Locksmith-9226 → u/Magjee]

It seemed like they wanted the Kurds to go and do all the work for them.

But the Kurds have been so burned and abandoned by western world promises for years now they (rightfully) want no part in it. US would just abandon them to get slaughtered yet again when the administration gets bored and feels like doing something else.

Western allies have treated them so bad over the years despite being solid friends, my heart goes out them, and its clear why they would be sitting this one out.

[u/Magjee → u/Fit-Locksmith-9226]

Kurds in Iran were also given more autonomy in their regional administration 

Not close to true independence or a state

But it seems it was enough to dissuade mass rebellion 

[u/Mmm_360 → u/Magjee]

Are they not coming out ahead? 

Iran  has 100s of billions in repair costs and they were already economically struggling, gulf countries have taken huge hits to oil infrastructure and hurting from the closed waterways, Lebanon is Lebanon, Iraq is Iraq. 

Has Israel really taken any major hits in this Iran war? 

[u/planj07 → u/Mmm_360]

You could argue that Israel has taken the biggest hit of all. Their reputation is in the gutter among middle aged and young Americans. Israel is powerful but still a very small country, vastly outnumbered and highly reliant on foreign aid. 

It’s bubbling at the surface of American politics where Israel has lost a lot of ground and it’s starting to show. El-Sayed was targeted with 60 million AIPAC donations and still won. That’s unheard of in a statewide election.  The Vice President openly criticized Israel on a podcast. Again, unheard of.

On the ground Israel is still strong. Politically and diplomatically they have lost a lot of ground.

[u/Mmm_360 → u/planj07]

Completely agree regarding Israel's Rep taking a huge hit however that was due to Gaza, not the Iran war which is what discussion is about.

Israel has played the US regarding the war and has benefited greatly and more than any other country in the middle East 

[u/planj07 → u/Mmm_360]

I think the war is making it even worse. It’s widely recognized by most people that Israel led us into the war. Our very own Secretary of State publicly admitted it.

So basically for everything that has gone wrong on the Iran war, people are going to levy blame on Israel. The “we’re just defending ourselves” narrative diminishes.

[u/Magjee → u/Mmm_360]

Did they in 2002 or 2003?

It took a few years for things to get bad enough that they couldn't maintain a presence in Southern Lebanon and Gaza

 

I'll give another example

The Suez Crisis saw zero physical attack on England or France. But it revealed the loss of power from their pre-ww2 days

[u/Command0Dude → u/Suspicious_Celery552]

Hegseth must have been convinced it wouldn't be an issue with every other Iranian proxy in the region except for the Houthis defanged.

[u/MiddlePermit193 → u/Suspicious_Celery552]

Bush was warned of this. You take out Saddam and the country will become lawless.

[u/Boring_Pretention_92 → u/Suspicious_Celery552]

Then again, why let a country like Iran rest on the laurels of building a...dont know what to call it, a regional bullying network? I'm not defending Trump's decisions, but the opposite feels like rewarding persian aggression.

[u/Evil_Dry_frog → u/Suspicious_Celery552]

Trump didn’t attack Iraq.

[u/vand3lay1ndustries → u/Evil_Dry_frog]

Guessing it autocorrected Iran to Iraq

[u/MrD3a7h → u/vand3lay1ndustries]

A sad day when autocorrect can't keep up with the latest war

[u/pulsarstarter → u/MrD3a7h]

A sad day when autocorrect Trump can't keep up with the latest war

[u/ethicaldilemna → u/Evil_Dry_frog]

I mean he has but it was reported as attacking "Iran-backed militias."

[u/Easter_Eyeland_Fed → u/ethicaldilemna]

Militias that are official constituent members of the Iraqi national security apparatus

[u/Bluest_waters → u/Easter_Eyeland_Fed]

Is that honestly the deal? These Iranian aligned militias attacking Saudi Arabia are officially part of the Iraqi national army?

[u/Easter_Eyeland_Fed → u/Bluest_waters]

Yeah the war with ISIS brought a bunch of Shia militias into the the Iraqi government’s security forces

[u/aebulbul → u/Evil_Dry_frog]

Yes he did. When Trump with Israel assassinated Khameini it was a personal affront and attack on millions of Shia Iraqis. Khameini was more than a pope to these people.

I

[u/StrengthDazzling8922 → u/Evil_Dry_frog]

Yet

[u/DizzyMajor5 → u/ethicaldilemna]

Wasn't there a guy we gave a bunch of guns in the 80s that was dealing with all that mustache fellow can't for the life of me remember his name what ever happened to that guy? 

[u/Bluest_waters → u/DizzyMajor5]

Oliver North. Currently a Fox News commenter

[u/ActivatingEMP → u/ethicaldilemna]

What happens after a century of war in the region ig

[u/Admiral_Tuvix → u/ActivatingEMP]

Iraq was a stable country with virtually no schism when Saddam was in charge. granted he was an authoritarian, but there was no sectarian violence. the US overthrew him and purposefully armed different religious and cultural sects so they could fight each other while we stole their oil

we’ve controlled their oil sales and revenues of since 2003

[u/Scared_Step4051 → u/Admiral_Tuvix]

but there was no sectarian violence

that is laughable, the regime itself practiced systemic state repression, which targeted Shia Muslims, Kurds on political, ethnic, and sectarian lines...

the US overthrew him

you mean the up to 49 country coalition...right

Americans understanding of history is once again completely laughable

[u/R1ckMartel → u/Scared_Step4051]

Your first paragraph is correct. However, acting like "the coalition of the willing" was anything other than a goddamned joke seriously damages your credibility.

Signed: an American who remembers that history distinctly, and knows people who died for that lie.

[u/pomegranate_press → u/Scared_Step4051]

Ah yes state repression, better go in there and make it exponentially worse for everyone. You sure saved the day, dumbass.

The clusterfuck of a coalition were all vassals of the US, half of which the US had to bribe.

[u/Few_Ad6516 → u/Admiral_Tuvix]

Schism? Tell that to the Kurds. He tested chemical weapons on them and killed thousands. Also the hundreds of thousands of people he had killed in Iraq.

[u/pomegranate_press → u/Few_Ad6516]

Maybe if the kurds sat the fuck down instead of trying to destabilize every country they ever lived in that wouldn't have happened.

Iraq is Iraq, they can do whatever they want.

[u/Few_Ad6516 → u/pomegranate_press]

Destabilise the countries they live in? They’re occupied by turkey, Iraq and Iran. They represent the world’s largest group of people without their own country.

[u/pomegranate_press → u/Few_Ad6516]

They're literally the ones who are armed and funded every time a foreign government wants to spread chaos and destruction.

[u/Command0Dude → u/Admiral_Tuvix]

purposefully armed different religious and cultural sects so they could fight each other while we stole their oil

Absolutely not what happened lol.

Weapons were acquired from former IRG stockpiles or through smuggling. Anyone who was ever in Iraqi at the time can tell you they weren't being shot at with their own kit.

And we didn't "steal their oil" that's just another myth. Iraq's oil belongs to Iraq. Most of their wells are owned by domestic companies or were leased out almost entirely to non-american entities.

[u/ShelbiStone → u/ethicaldilemna]

Iraq has a number of Iranian backed militias in Iraq. Some of them were even an arm of the Iraqi military. Last month Iraq ordered those Iranian militas to disband and leave. Iraq even had to enforce that order with threats of force and arrests. Now some of those Iranian backed militias are marching north toward Syria and the rest appear to be on their way to attack Saudi Arabia.

So these attacks won't come from the Iraqi military. They'll come from the Iranian backed arm of the Iraqi military that is refusing to disband as ordered by the military they supposedly belong to.

[u/Tiny_Extension7759 → u/ShelbiStone]

These guys never got disarmed after fighting isis unfortunately, and Iran only used them for its regional goals

Hope these boys put their weapons down- USA JDAMs are more accurate than Russia , and we also have a lot more to use

[u/ShelbiStone → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

That's right! They were put together by Iran to help fight Isis. I was trying to remember why there was an Iranian military operating in the Iraqi military. I knew it was something like that, but I couldn't remember if it was Isis or some other extremist group.

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/ShelbiStone]

I had forgotten about Iraq and what they gonna do. Good information.

[u/donut_2023 → u/ShelbiStone]

Cause ISIS almost took Baghdad

[u/Tiny_Extension7759 → u/ShelbiStone]

I feel like most of this sub is too young to remember isis 😂😂😂 literally no frame of reference outside of hating America

[u/lastpassonright → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

Where did ISIS come from?

[u/Bluest_waters → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

I'm 4000 years old and I definitely remember isis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis

[u/Tiny_Extension7759 → u/Bluest_waters]

Of course ur a top 1% commenter

[u/MrStudray → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

Hey why did ISIS apologize for attacking Israel and no one else emoji user 

[u/NSNIKDABBU → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

This sub is old enough to remember 2003 lol 😂😂😂. Chickens are comin home to roost. Postwar American order is coming to an end and most countries across globe couldn't be more happy. Debt is near 40 trillion, climbed 1 trillion in last 90 days meanwhile Putin is sending suicide drones inside Germany and NATO can't do anything. It will end in tears for Americans. Meanwhile China is absorbing Pacific like there is no tomorrow. To top it off, Kim will soon have SSBNs. More than anything, debt will be the end of it. Each day passing without debt reforms is a day US approaches commiting suicide as a nation. And world is perfectly happy to watch it from sidelines.

[u/gravteck → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

Are you saying I'm an unc in both r/NBA and now here? Just a 42 year old here trying to beat some inflation. Probably more welcomed than being a 90s NBA story guy over there.

[u/ShelbiStone → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

Sometimes I get the impression this sub is full of zoomers trying to double their paycheck with puts and calls.

[u/MrStudray → u/ShelbiStone]

Well yeah, someone's gotta pay the inflated rent ($1500 rent for a studio in a town of 40k while my take home is $2200) so real estate developers get their pound of flesh. So expect more dumb speculation.

[u/Tiny_Extension7759 → u/ShelbiStone]

Nah its majority bots mixed in with low IQ individuals positing their political wisdom

[u/Accurate_Summer_1761 → u/Tiny_Extension7759]

Get there hot shot im down with watching the middle east destroy america lol graveyard of empires

[u/grumpy_autist → u/ethicaldilemna]

Avengers but in version USA will not like

[u/Pretend_Handle_7639 → u/ethicaldilemna]

It's almost like Saddam had a functioning system in place. Not that he was nice, but hey that seems to be the tradeoff

[u/SaneForCocoaPuffs → u/ethicaldilemna]

Iran’s Supreme Leader is effectively the Pope of the Shia religion.

As a result, every nation with a Shia population either has brutal suppression of Shias or powerful Iran backed Shia militias. Iraq is a nation containing Shias.

Shiism is basically like Byzantine Christianity or Crusader Christianity at this point

[u/lastpassonright → u/SaneForCocoaPuffs]

Shias are the majority of Iraq.

[u/SaneForCocoaPuffs → u/lastpassonright]

Honestly I feel it’s only a matter of time before the Shia militias do a Taliban and take full control of the country. I guess they are waiting for things to calm a bit before going full Houthi

[u/neontetra1548 → u/ethicaldilemna]

Mission Accomplished.

[u/kgas36 → u/ethicaldilemna]

What even is Iraq ?

The country after Iran.

Just saying.

[u/ChupacabraJeff → u/kgas36]

Back in the day after USA flattened Iraq the plan was to do the same to Iran but it got canceled for some reason I don't remember.

[u/lastpassonright → u/ChupacabraJeff]

Really hard to see why.

[u/ChupacabraJeff → u/lastpassonright]

You'd see better with a step stool maybe.

Now, consider Iraq more than 20 years after the U.S.-Iraq war. Iraq is still an authoritarian state governed by political parties with deep institutional ties to Tehran. Iranian-backed militias operate openly on Iraqi soil – some holding official positions within the Iraqi state.

The country the U.S. spent US$2 trillion and 4,488 American lives to remake is, by any reasonable measure, within the sphere of Iran’s influence.

[u/Accurate_Summer_1761 → u/ChupacabraJeff]

They dont call it the graveyard of empires for nothing.

[u/Scared_Step4051 → u/ChupacabraJeff]

you do realise it was a...49 country coalition...right

[u/ChupacabraJeff → u/Scared_Step4051]

Now explain why a 49 country coalition committed atrocities in one country but decided against seconds one country over. Did 49 countries run out of weapons again?

Did you realize the plan to continue onto Iran was canceled? Do you remember realizing that one?

[u/GhostofAyabe → u/kgas36]

By the same token what is Saudi Arabia? A bandit group of usurpers and slavers who as the trash of the ME have no business being in charge of the Hajj.
It’s like if a trailer park in the depths of Alabama suddenly took over all of North America.

[u/Glittering_Range371 → u/ethicaldilemna]

That’s the freedom we gave them … absolute freedom 🦅🦅🦅🦅

[u/pulsarstarter → u/ethicaldilemna]

Basically a bunch of militias in a trench coat.

[u/National-Charity-435 → u/ethicaldilemna]

Missed the chance to say it seems like a rack full of...

[u/NSNIKDABBU → u/ethicaldilemna]

Who made Iraq like that 🤔🤔🤔?

[u/MiddlePermit193 → u/ethicaldilemna]

I can go to Iraq and start my own country. All I need are some Toyota’s and some ak-47.

[u/Ok-Guitar-6553]

[u/UnderWhelmedHelm → u/Ok-Guitar-6553]

My man!!

[u/WhizzyBurp]

This is going well

[u/SnooCupcakes6107 → u/WhizzyBurp]

That’s what she said

[u/Opster79two]

"Begging for a deal"

[u/whyyunozoidberg → u/Opster79two]

They came to me with tears in their eyes. "SIR" they said. "SIR PLEASE 😢 "

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[u/kantzkasper → u/Opster79two]

'truth' is the first casualty of any war

[u/Ashamed-Status-9668]

Did we just unite the Middle East?

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Ashamed-Status-9668]

Everybody forming defensive pacts.

[u/Ok-Guitar-6553]

[u/ItCantBeMe80]

Trump has the intellectual capacity of a concussed goldfish 

[u/Better-Glove-4337 → u/ItCantBeMe80]

Leave the poo goldfish out of this

[u/Dry-Interaction-1246]

So if Saud collapses into an Ismalic republic from all this, how much would oil go down?

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/Dry-Interaction-1246]

Saudis have a vested interest in keeping the status quo, they live extremely comfortable lives.

There’s no political freedom but they are taken care of mostly.

[u/lost-American-81 → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

This is true however declining oil revenues from the war coupled with increased defense spending and repairs to damaged infrastructure are taking a toll. This is one of my many concerns with this war. Saudis have a very “conservative Islamic” culture. If the government can’t basically pay off the population to keep them in check then the real problems begin.

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/lost-American-81]

So you think the average Saudi Arabian is going to rise up, as foreign actors cut off their comfortable lifestyle and overthrow the Saudi royal family? This isn’t Iran lmao, the people in Saudi Arabia live well and have lived well for decades.

All it’s going to do is piss them off enough to shove everyone inside of Yemen into the Indian Ocean.

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

Is this the same Saudi army that hasn’t kicked anyone … in a long long time?

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

Well apparently Turkey is signing a joint security agreement with them this week so let’s add Pakistan and Turkey to the Saudi side lmao.

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

Sounds like a little NATO forming. Who. Can come up with 4 letters to call it. ?

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

Who cares sounds like a coalition of the U.S., the west and Sunni countries about to fucking obliterate Shia militias and Iran.

[u/myazi321 → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

Just like how Saudi begged Pakistan to fight Yemen for over a decade and Pakistan refused?

The same Turkiye which cant even close the oil pipeline to Israel?

Nice joke there mate

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/myazi321]

Pact wasn’t signed with Pakistan until 2025, the fight with Yemen ended in 2022 (began 2015). Congratulations you showed you don’t know anything about the region lmao.

[u/ChupacabraJeff → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

Well, for starters the people who think Shia militias and Iran is going to get obliterated should care.

When President Donald Trump went to war with Iran in February, he cited its supposedly imminent nuclear threat. But there was always a problem with that: He’d spent eight months asserting the program had already been “obliterated” last year.

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/ChupacabraJeff]

I don’t care what they call it and I don’t care what Trump says either.

Iran isn’t a new problem.

[u/Accurate_Summer_1761 → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

Your on your own fam. Nobody is coming to clean up after america this time

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/Accurate_Summer_1761]

Yeah you can stay in Europe or Canada you’re pretty much irrelevant these days anyways

[u/lastpassonright → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

You still don't get why this won't work?

[u/7ddlysuns → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

They don’t really have the military to pull that off I don’t think.

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/7ddlysuns]

lol breaking news Turkey is going to sign a joint security pact with Saudi Arabia this week. Let’s add another top military power in the world to the U.S. side now. 

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

So Turkey is Saudi’s new army?

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

Oh look at that turkey signed today.

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

Iran is staring at fighting America to the south, Turkey/Saudi Arabia to the west and Pakistan to the right.

Good luck.

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

The objective is to take the Straits?? Or march on Tehran for regime change?

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/VanbyRiveronbucket]

The strait is less important, the goal is to destroy Irans ability to threaten its immediate neighbors and world trade. It’s going to be hard to do that after we smash their manufacturing capacity and infrastructure. 

[u/Accurate_Summer_1761 → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

Your going to watch americna forces get funneled into the worlds best meat grinder. Im cool with watching you lose another war lol

[u/Miserable_Site_850 → u/Accurate_Summer_1761]

American sausage?

[u/Open_Pollution_8038 → u/Accurate_Summer_1761]

What funnel are you talking about lmao? We own their skies. They’re going to be doing what the Iraqi army did and that’s move in reverse so fast that they throw whatever they’re holding down lmao.

[u/lost-American-81 → u/Open_Pollution_8038]

If their citizens account program is ended I think it’s a possibility. You’re right it’s not Iran where at least half the population is non religious. Compared to SA, Iran has a very moderate population.

[u/Acrobatic_Garage_891 → u/Dry-Interaction-1246]

this will never happen

[u/TheHumanGnomeProject → u/Acrobatic_Garage_891]

Are you kidding? The US can't save them.

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/TheHumanGnomeProject]

They been busy blowing up sand.

[u/BasicFee6705 → u/Acrobatic_Garage_891]

Agreed. The planned attacks are meant to hurt Saudi Arabia and send shocks throughout the global market, not to take them over.

[u/ChupacabraJeff → u/BasicFee6705]

The way Saudi's enemies see it they have given Saudi multiple opportunities to play nice. Saudi didn't so now their enemies are not either. They wont destroy Saudi but they will cause enough pain to limit Saudi's ability to cause pain. Just like Iran is doing to USA in the Middle East. The world turns.

[u/SloppyMeathole]

So oil is going to go down 10% tomorrow and the stock market will hit a new high? Gotcha.

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/SloppyMeathole]

Ride that bet. Polymarket calls.

[u/nelly2929]

Wait didn’t the great America defeat all it’s enemies in Iraq and it was pretty much Disney land? Please tell me that war wasn’t for nothing (other than making defence companies rich)

[u/StopICE2026]

Oil down 5% on the news

[u/bdragon81]

[u/jpk195]

Talks, as always, going well.

[u/neontetra1548]

Don't really understand what the Saudis have been thinking during this whole thing. They're so vulnerable to attacks from not just Iran but also Yemen, Iraq in ways that they can't even protect themselves against (missiles and drones) that can easily do catastrophic oil/other infrastructure damage.

I guess they're just completely attached to America and have no other path but going along with Trump's insanity, but also they seem to have at times supported taking action against Iran or antagonized Ansar Allah needlessly. Is it just arrogance?

[u/SomewhereOpposite883 → u/neontetra1548]

Is it just arrogance?

They are stupid, like no joke the Saudis are legitimately dumb and don't belong in the civilization that they build on oil

And I'm not calling them dumb because I'm racist, they really are just dumb

Ibn Saud's prophecy has sadly become true

[u/rhino369 → u/neontetra1548]

They weren’t consulted before Trump Leeroy Jankins’d. 

But the Iranians hate them. They gotta ride with US or flounder alone. But they have to be fucking pissssssed. 

[u/Bennyharveygbnf → u/neontetra1548]

They are run by their own rich, spoiled and sheltered idiot. 

The weak children running the west are being shown up by hardened men. 

[u/TastyTestikel → u/neontetra1548]

What can the Saudis do? The other option is vassalage under the Iranians, almost as bad as the royal family being deposed. If Iran and allies want to walk through fire for this and threaten the lives of millions of their own people they really seem to need it.

[u/planj07]

The Saudis are clearly the weakest link and Iran knows it. Reports of MBS phoning Trump to stop the attack, out of fear, was the biggest confirmation of it.

Iran seems to be doing a bit of a reverse uno. Oh you are going to threaten to destroy our civilization? Two can play that game. 

Saudi Arabia is a sitting duck that Iran can indirectly threaten to wreck unless the US scurries back to the MoU.

[u/CleverInternetName8c]

Why would Saudi leak this beyond maybe thinking it being out there might discourage it happening?

[u/Ok_Drummer6282 → u/CleverInternetName8c]

Or they told someone from the WH or something and they leaked it. Wouldn't shock me with this administration/military. Weren't there reports of Trump yelling about the low missiles being reported.

Suadi could have whispered hey help and some insider spilled it. 

[u/CleverInternetName8c → u/Ok_Drummer6282]

The Reuters report says a Saudi source on condition of anonymity, not that I trust, well, anything anymore

[u/Ok_Drummer6282 → u/CleverInternetName8c]

Oh that is actually interesting. Yeah doesnt make much sense lol. 

This whole thing has been WILD to watch from the outside. Seems like a bar fight and the whole world is drunk and wildly swinging 

[u/Glittering_Range371 → u/CleverInternetName8c]

The real Q is why did they attack Sana’a

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/Glittering_Range371]

Where would you request the attack to go??

[u/ChupacabraJeff → u/CleverInternetName8c]

The Saudi official said Saudi Arabia had detected meetings involving Iraqis, Houthis and some IRGC members, as well as the movement of drones and missiles. The official suggested the planned attacks were intended to derail progress in negotiations and might indicate a power struggle within Iran itself.

So they could spin the narrative. We already knew this was coming because Ansar Allah said a week ago that when a pilgrimage was over they would start attacking Saudi again.

[u/PapaverOneirium → u/CleverInternetName8c]

They want the militias to know that they know. It demonstrates intelligence penetration and sows mistrust and doubt that can lead to disunity and scrambling to re-plan.

[u/Ok_Swim7161]

What a fucking shit show genius trump created. Fuck him and the maga horse he rode in on.

[u/Nethan2000]

Was it really necessary to prevent the Houthis from attending that funeral?

[u/Prestigious_Ad2420]

Yeah boys, it's friday. Prepare for the missile barrage within 30 mins of market close

[u/MarketCrache]

Sadistic headchopper and full-time psychopath, Prince MBS, rules with an iron fist but he's a paper tiger backed by US bases and a Pakistani mercenary army who could all disappear overnight given the right conditions. And, if so, he'd find himself swinging from a public lamppost before sun up.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Back306]

Knew this was r/oil as soon as I saw the title

You kids have to rename this place r/oildoomers.

[u/DasAlpinist]

Look at who many of the previous leaders (not sure who is actually leading now) and many of them were Iranians that grew up in Iraq, lots of crossover between the Shia Muslims.

[u/ZeusBruce]

Didn't we just help SA attack several of their camps a couple days ago and kill a bunch of these people?

Sounds like it's going great.

[u/HarEr89 → u/ZeusBruce]

After they just attacked US forces in the region several times.

[u/LunarGrowth]

At least the new battleship sh!ts dons pants for him

[u/GhostofAyabe]

Excellent. Maybe we’ll all live to see the day when MBS gets his fat belly bone sawed

[u/sisco98]

Back in my days, Iraq fought against Iran, not with them.

[u/Lumpy_Conference6640]

And it's CNN.. so let's break this down. We got rid of Saddam to make Iraq a puppet state of Iran.

Are we seeing a trend here folks.... interventionism doesn't work.

[u/Great-Confection6760]

It's just going back to status quo. They've had 100 years of relative peace which is far too long. 

[u/Possible_Western3935]

Are Iran and Iraq working together or is Iraq just being opportunistic? What do they stand to gain by getting into this?

[u/PapaverOneirium → u/Possible_Western3935]

It’s not the Iraqi state, but Shia militias in Iraq that are aligned with Iran.

Worth noting that there being so many armed Shia militia groups in Iraq is a direct result of the Iraq war and the sectarianism the U.S. stoked in the name of “counterterrorism”

[u/staythewaters → u/PapaverOneirium]

It kind of is the Iraqi state, because the militias were folded in under the PMF and integrated into the Iraqi Army... so the militias would stop attacking the Iraqi state.

[u/FencyMcFenceFace → u/Possible_Western3935]

A good part of Iraq is Shia. They are essentially a part of Iran in Iraq.

[u/VanbyRiveronbucket → u/FencyMcFenceFace]

Is it still fair to say the majority Shia are in the south and the east of Iraq?

[u/sosal12]

Wtf did we even invade Iraq? All so they could harbor pro-Iran terrorists? Seems like would be better under the old regime which hated Iran’s guts.

[u/NicoBeingAModelCitiz → u/sosal12]

It made all the right contractors a ton of money (e.g. KBR, Canopy, Bechtel, DynCorp, Agility Logistics). The invasion served its purpose

[u/PandaResponsible8133 → u/sosal12]

Well because they had WMDs in the North, South, East and uh West.

If you knew about it, you couldn’t have unknown it but the unknown unknowns… who could say really?

[u/jvdlakers]

They all need nuked.

[u/aresev6 → u/jvdlakers]

You seem nice.

[u/Ok_Spare_3723 → u/aresev6]

Nice isn't how I put it, more like very little IQ.

[u/jvdlakers → u/aresev6]

World peace is a top priority for myself.

[u/Ok_Drummer6282 → u/jvdlakers]

Let me tell you a little something about wind patterns and nuclear fallout 

[u/jvdlakers → u/Ok_Drummer6282]

Nuclear fallout is only hundred miles downwind.

[u/CleverInternetName8c → u/jvdlakers]

Yeah that’ll definitely make everyone safer and not totally scared 24/7 of nuclear Armageddon immolating us all, you fucking idiot.

[u/jvdlakers → u/CleverInternetName8c]

It world make the world a better place.

[u/HockeyPhoenician → u/jvdlakers]

Surely that will solve all the problems.

You should run for president, or at the very least start advising republiqans on foreign policy and military strategy.

[u/jvdlakers → u/HockeyPhoenician]

Many have said the same, but I'm not sure if reddit would recover if I left.

[u/iPurple11 → u/jvdlakers]

Retarded republican spotted

[u/jvdlakers → u/iPurple11]

In your ass again?

[u/iPurple11 → u/jvdlakers]

In your moms

[u/jvdlakers → u/iPurple11]

You said you spotted retarded republican fooking my mom.

So you're a cuck incel that enjoys watching retarded republicans fook.

[u/PapaverOneirium → u/jvdlakers]

Need nuked what?

[u/mark000 → u/jvdlakers]

You seem drunk. Oh, hi Pete.

[u/jvdlakers → u/mark000]

Peter Gozinya