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Is Saudi Arabia About to Invade Syria?
Saudi Arabia is massing hundreds of thousands of troops while conducting its biggest ever wargames.
Is this preparation for an invasion of Syria or just one huge bluff? Russia’s Prime Minister recently warned that such a move could spark a new world war.
We talk to Syrian Girl to find out.
24 Comments on "Is Saudi Arabia About to Invade Syria?"
Davy on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 7:14 pm
This is Turkey’s war. KSA does not have the logistics or a prepositioning to be a dominant factor. This is about Turkey quickly confronting the Syrian, Iranian, and Hezbollah forces near Aleppo. Turkey needs to keep a lifeline in place to the rebels in Aleppo. It is about preventing the Syrian Kurds from controlling border areas. KSA contribution will be with air power if this materializes and maybe some troops but it is doubtful any large formations. It is still uncertain how KSA airpower could be brought to bear with Russia having air defenses in place.
KSA would be an important addition to Turkey’s effort if a showdown with Russia were to take place in the air. Turkey has a 10-1 advantage over the Russians with attack aircraft in the Syrian theater. This type of conflict could get ugly quickly with a Russian response to an air attack with strategic bombing of Turkey’s air assets. Then one must ask what will Nato do? We also must consider the Bosphorus Strait. If Russia and Turkey go to war Turkey will surely close the straits. This is a very messy scenario for everyone.
makati1 on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 7:33 pm
1. I don’t see it happening.
2. If it does, it will be the start of the nuclear war most of us see coming. KSA cannot win a battle against the experienced and well armed opposition. Certainly not win a war, so it will be necessary for the crippled Empire to step in and help. First it will be planes, then ground troops, then spent nuclear munitions and then the big ones. That is when the sheeple will realize that they are not exceptional. The mushrooms over their cities will prove it.
Maybe I will be wrong, but, from all I see and read, that is the direction the US is pushing the world toward. A nuclear World War 3.
noobtube on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 7:57 pm
About 100 years ago, Turkey was born from the Ottoman Empire’s defeat in World War I fighting Tsarist Russia (which also ended).
In fact, Syria was born from those defeats in World War I.
Now, it looks like everything is going to be reordered again a century later.
It seems no one learns from history.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 8:15 pm
The Saudis couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag. This is just embarrassing.
JuanP on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 8:26 pm
Tactical nukes would take care of the problem in a jiffy. This is a bluff. The only ground troops KSA would send would be just more foreign mercenary terrorists. They did fly 20 F15s to Incirlik Air Base yesterday.
I believe Russia would be several times more justified to use nuclear weapons now than the USA ever was against Japan. I expect them to use them without any hesitation if it becomes necessary. What is the USA going to do? Nuke Russia? I don’t think they are crazy enough, but if they did then we would have a full blown thermonuclear war in our hands in a second jiffy.
Puff! There went Miami! 🙁
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 9:38 pm
Don’t need nukes to deal with Saudi forces. The kindergarten wing of Hezbollah could take care of them between story time and nap time. If Russia wants to stop Turkey from doing anything they just turn off the gas and the grain and give the Kurds a transport plane shipment of Semtex. That’d be the end of Turkey as a Nation. Turkey is nothing. Saudi Arabia is a joke.
Plantagenet on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 10:23 pm
Saudi doesn’t even share a border with Syria. There is no way for Saudi ground forces to get to Syria without crossing Iraq or Jordan, which those countries won’t allow.
Cheers!
roman on Wed, 17th Feb 2016 11:50 pm
Muzzies need to send all their young females here before they all get nuked.
Nony on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 12:10 am
roman, she sure is fine. I never watched because I don’t need anymore unused erections. Did she say she was a “muzzie”? 10% of the Syrian population is Christian.
Woo wee Syrian Girl is fine!
HOW FINE IS SHE?
She so fine, I’d crawl naked across broken glass for 50 miles just to kiss the cock of the last guy to fuck her.
Dat fine!
twocats on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 12:27 am
“Desperate talk of desperate losers” [syrian girl]
I agree with those saying little chance Northern Thunder will turn into a ground invasion. Even beyond logistics I just don’t think you could get 20 states to agree to such madness. In particular, Pakistan is participating, and they are a legitimate fighting force, I seriously doubt they would go for something this suicidal.
Turkey and SA will continue “sorties” into Northern Syria and that might lead to a confrontation that escalates, perhaps in hopes of drawing in the amaericans. Maybe they are setting the stage in case Trump takes the election?
I don’t know, it seems like this particular game is over, the crowds are filing out of the stands. They haven’t turned the lights out so SA and Turkey are still calling and running plays, but time has run out.
twocats on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 12:33 am
i like this new nony so much better than the old nony.
btw, i hope that my comments were anti-TEOTWAWKI for the non-doomers. It is important to recognize some doomsday scenarios as low-probability.
Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 12:39 am
twocats, yabut Guy McPherson says we only gots 14 years left.
It’s too late to halt climate change. Near-term human extinction is inevitable.
“There are people moving to escape the absence of habitat, there are powerful storms, there are fires that are unbelievable, there are food and water shortages, there are five million people that die every year as a result of climate change – and people ask me all the time ‘when does it start?’ If you’re in the family of those five million people, that day is here.”
https://thisishell.com/interviews/883-guy-mcpherson
theedrich on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 2:49 am
Well, what the Botoxed S.G. babe is saying is good news: if, however improbably, Araby actually does invade Syria, it will be the end of the invader’s regime; if not, it will cause international embarrassment both to the Arab absurdity, and to White House Negro as well as the mental defectives in the U.S. State Department who support the aggression against Syria.
ghung on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:35 am
Wikipedia:
“Despite the addition of a number of units and increased mobility achieved during the 1970s and 1980s, the army’s personnel complement has expanded only moderately since a major buildup was launched in the late 1960s. The army has been chronically understrength, in the case of some units by an estimated 30 to 50 percent. These shortages have been aggravated by a relaxed policy that permitted considerable absenteeism and by a serious problem of retaining experienced technicians and noncommissioned officers (NCOs). The continued existence of a separate national guard also limited the pool of potential army recruits.”
Of their claimed 239,000-strong army, wondering how many can/will actually fight.
sidzepp on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 9:38 am
Seoul’s spy service says North Korea is preparing attacks
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/seouls-spy-service-says-north-korea-is-preparing-attacks/ar-BBpBdIJ?ocid=spartanntp
More distraction to grow our paranoia!
JuanP on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 10:15 am
Robert Fisk on Syria, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-conflict-damascus-remains-a-war-zone-but-some-families-are-returning-a6877736.html
twocats on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 10:24 am
Bombing attack in Ankara…
False Flag?
YPG getting a little payback?
(I wish we had an up-down counter like on ZH so we could take a straw poll)
Another few things, I’m assuming its not completely staged, and that people did die, but man that fire is raging BIG TIME for being just a car bomb. I don’t ever remember seeing such a huge fire after a car bomb – and this one must have been going on for hours and hours. They said the car bomb was detonated during rush hour and killed 30, injured 60+. So where are all the cars surround the wreckage? Did they haul off the cars but still have injured people on site? There’s a lot of stuff about it that just does not look right.
Gore-monger on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 11:21 am
This website seriously considers the viewpoint of the contemporary Tokyo Rose or Hanoi Hannah in regards to the Syrian Government to be valid?
Oh man, you guys are kooks.
That being said, all it is two enemies brutalizing each other shown to spectacular effect on youtube/liveleak. Neither side involved is a friend, so the only thing we can do is sit back and watch the fireworks.
That being said, I can’t be the only one to draw amusement from seeing an irresistible “revolutionary” force go up against a rock of old school autocratic interests. Watching all the “interest groups” violently at play in Syria that commit grisly and ultra-brutal acts from the comfort of my computer chair while sipping Pepsi is great.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 11:46 am
That sugary drink is ruining your mind guy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3450298/High-sugar-diet-damaging-brain-extreme-stress-ABUSE.html
Turns out its bad for nerves as well.
GregT on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 1:04 pm
“This website seriously considers the viewpoint of the contemporary Tokyo Rose or Hanoi Hannah in regards to the Syrian Government to be valid?”
I have been following Syrian Girl since long before the US backed uprising began. She does not support the Assad government, nor does she support a caliphate and/or Sharia law. She believes in diplomacy and political reform, not murder and war.
PracticalMaina on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 2:46 pm
GregT Then hers is not a popular viewpoint with any of our “allies” leadership in the area.
JN2 on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 3:12 pm
Plant, you should get out more. Syria shares borders not just with Jordan and Iraq but also with Turkey and Lebanon. KSA has access to Turkish air bases. Just sayin’…
twocats on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 3:40 pm
JN2 – but Northern Thunder is in Saudi Arabia, and the clip’s “hypothetical” is that this operation is just a smokescreen in preparation for a massive ground invasion from Saudi Arabia.
GregT on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 4:28 pm
“Then hers is not a popular viewpoint with any of our “allies” leadership in the area.”
Then perhaps our “leadership” is supporting the wrong side of this conflict. Killing people and forcing them from their homes, just because you don’t like their government, is hardly what I would consider to be taking the moral high ground.