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19.10.26 - 14:36
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Saudi Arabia is learning the hard way: they can′t count on Trump for protection | Mohamad Bazzi (The Guardian)
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After Houthis escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia, the US turned down calls from MBS for helpFor years, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, cultivated a close relationship with Donald Trump and his son-in-law and former top adviser, Jared Kushner. The prince understood the president's transactional approach to power: he signed deals to buy billions of dollars' worth of US weapons and invested billions more in American companies.Days after Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, Prince Mohammed pledged to expand investment and trade with the US by $600bn over four years. He later promised to increase that investment to nearly $1tn, although it wasn't entirely clear how Saudi Arabia would manage to plough a sum close to the kingdom's entire annual GDP into a foreign economy over a few years.Mohamad Bazzi is a Guardian US columnist. He is also director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and a journalism professor at New York University Continue reading......
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19.10.26 - 12:27
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Growing List Of Major Events Saudi Arabia Forced To Cancel, Postpone (ZeroHedge)
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Growing List Of Major Events Saudi Arabia Forced To Cancel, Postpone
Houthi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia have become almost daily at this point, and appear aimed at causing maximal economic and security pain for the kingdom.
Riyadh's international airport has remained closed, as have some other regional hubs that were targeted this month, and flight suspensions to and from Europe and internationally have had a domino effect, impacting the ability of Saudi Arabia to host major events.
The kingdom has as a result been forced to cancel or postpone a series of international high profile and high dollar events, also as air defenses appear to be failing to detect inbound missiles over the vast desert expanse.
Strikes out of Yemen on Saudi territory have killed at least 20 people and injured almost 400, stretching back to Oct. 6.
Middle East-focused news source Al Monitor writes, "The disruption has hit some of Saudi Arabia's flagship events across sectors central to its Vision 20...
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19.10.26 - 04:39
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Egypt Approves Troop Deployment In Support Of Saudi Arabia (ZeroHedge)
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Egypt Approves Troop Deployment In Support Of Saudi Arabia
Via The Cradle
Egypt announced on Sunday that it has approved the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia on a "defensive mission" to help the kingdom protect itself from the retaliatory military operations carried out by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF).
The Egyptian House of Representatives held "an emergency session to discuss the President of the Republic and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces' decision to send military forces to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a defensive mission," said MP Mostafa Bakry.
Source: Egyptian Presidency"The National Defense Council, chaired by the president, concluded its meeting and approved the deployment of the forces and the mission assigned to them," he added.
He said that "Egypt has never abandoned its pan-Arab role in protecting Arab national security. For us, Saudi Arabia is part of Egypt's own national security, and any threat to its security and stability is...
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19.10.26 - 02:15
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Saudi Arabia At The Breaking Point (ZeroHedge)
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Saudi Arabia At The Breaking Point
Authored by Larry C. Johnson via Sonar 21,
For most of this war, Saudi Arabia has been the shock absorber of the world oil market. When Hormuz closed, Riyadh pushed crude west through the East-West pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea and kept at least part of its exports moving. That bypass is now under attack. Ansar Allah has seized islands at the mouth of the Red Sea, declared a "maritime ban" on Saudi shipping and claimed strikes on Saudi airports, and in September drones knocked the East-West pipeline largely out of service. Riyadh blamed that strike on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. On October 4 a pumping station at Khurais, east of Riyadh, was hit for the first time and the pipeline stopped again.
Karl Miller, whose earlier assessment of the global fuel emergency I have drawn on before, has just completed a new analysis of what this means for Saudi Arabia and for the world. His conclusion is stark: the Gulf's energy system will take far longer...
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18.10.26 - 22:54
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Saudi Helicopter Downed, Two Pilots Killed, In First Of Renewed Yemen War (ZeroHedge)
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Saudi Helicopter Downed, Two Pilots Killed, In First Of Renewed Yemen War
Saudi Arabia has confirmed two military pilots are dead after their reconnaissance helicopter crashed near the border with war-ravaged Yemen - the first such reported Saudi military deaths since the renew of war with the Houthis last month.
Saudi official statements are calling it a crash, describing it as a malfunction or accident, while the Houthis are saying they shot down the aircraft.
Illustrative file image: Boeing"The AH-6i helicopter's crash near the city of Najran was due to a technical fault and killed two of the crew members, the Saudi-led coalition leading a campaign against the Houthis said," according to Bloomberg. "That disputes the Iranian-backed group's earlier claim that it had downed a similar aircraft."
Najran has been under frequent attack by the Houthis, including when the helicopter went down on Saturday. It happened amid the typical missile and drone barrage on the kingdom fr...
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