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What about Saudi Arabia?

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They're going to have to make a choice. Make the wrong one and Iran trashes their oil production and maybe the Saudi family gets overthrown. The US can't send enough troops to save them if they screw up.

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And the major oil producing regions of KSA have large Shi'a populations IIRC?

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it can spin in a lot of different directions and oftentimes people or countries don’t get what they want.

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MSM in IL, EU, US, did a fantastic job of downplaying it.. 97% interception, fell in open fields, zero casualties, etc, doing their best to prevent there being seen a need for any response, let alone a major one. Then the sataniczio leaders come out screaming about how a big retaliation is coming however, because their sataniczio population apparently loves being lied to. IE we'll destroyed hamas, we'll return settlers to the north, we've blockaded and setup no-fly zones in Lebanon, etc. The sooner their response comes the sooner this murderous clown show colony ends for good.

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Indeed. But a sat image shows a direct hit on an Israeli hangar, and no doubt the Iranians could do a lot worse if they're sufficiently irritated.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/satellite-images-show-damage-to-nevatim-base-from-iranian-mi

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Than for that Richard

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Well it’s clear today what the saudi’s chose to do 😆

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Cannot Israel equally well lose F-35s to the S-300 in an attack on Iranian civil nuclear facilities as it would if targeting air defense systems?

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Iran not only has their equivalent of S-300, by all accounts Russia has supplied them with S-400. Iran has a more or less equivalent system to the Russian S-300 which they developed themselves. IIRC, Andrei Martyanov said they also have a long-range, over-the-horizon radar system similar to what the Russians have.

It's likely Israel will lose planes if they attack Iran again. Which is one reason why I suspect Israel may decide to either use their Jerico missiles (which may or may not be vulnerable to an S-400 interception) or use their submarine cruise missiles.

Even more likely might be an Israeli attack involving all their systems: a missile attack, an air attack, a submarine attack, and a drone attack. They might figure at least on approach would be successful, and even if not, they would gain a lot of intel on Iran's defenses which the US would be happy to study.

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Pakistan is watching closely. If Iran is nuked, I'm pretty sure Pakistan will not sit on its nuclear bomb thumbs (It's the Iranian WIND CURRENTS that go into Pakistan...).

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