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Re:Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and U... by tomohawk on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:14AM (#18517256)
The Iranians are very aggressively attempting to take over the middle east. The Egyptians Saudis are attempting to prevent this. The battlefields today are Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.
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Re:Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and U... by mikeash on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:16AM (#18517270)
What stops the Saudis from doing the same? Given current events, it looks like they are.
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Re:Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and U... by tomohawk on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:20AM (#18517305)
Their vastly smaller population. Also, unlike Iran, they have not been talking about doing things like wiping out Isreal, etc.

Once Iran consolidates power in the areas they're operating in (Yemen, Iraq, Syria), the next obvious target is Saudi Arabia.

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Re:Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and U... by mikeash on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:24AM (#18517346)
Back to your 1939 analogy, that sounds just like reasons for allying with the Nazis.
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