Dakardii wrote:This is very poor analysis. KSA does not sponsor the Chechens. They don't. Prince Bandar was talking shit with Putin. I honestly wonder if that conversation cooked up by them. The (very) few Saudis in the Chechen army disliked the Saudi Monarchy. Jihadis generally do. There are wealthy Saudis that do donate money to Islamic causes, the way rich Jews in America support Israel, but it doesn't mean that the governments sign off on it. It's not that simple.
The Saudi government was not behind 9/11. Bin Laden was an outcast. He had been for a long time. Da kardii doesn't understand Jihadi politcs. It's not monolithic; it never has been. Jihadists want islamic Republics, not kings or Shahs. The Saudi government is trying to keep a lid on homegrown Jihadis. The KSA are generally good at dealing with Jihadist blowback. Saudi society has deep levels of corruption and political patronage and tribal issues to deal with than stirring up wars.
Iran has caused far more trouble in the Middle East than the Saudis.
Tribalism ihas a much stronger pull in the Middle East than religion (when all involved are Sunni). It does. Tribal connections matter more. It is very nuanced and complex. Arab tribalism is difficult for outsiders to understand.
The USSR was an atheist Communist hellhole. The deeply religious and merchantile Saudis had no interest in dealing with godless communists. And the USSR had nothing to offer the Saudis. Nothing. I don't think KSA had relations with a lot of countries in the past, it wasn't bad blood but lack of interest that guided it.
You think like Rambo. You should have stayed at the monastery in Thailand...
No, the KSA does not. The Chechens do look to the House of Saud for anything. The Chechens were fighting the Russians bfore Saudi Arabia even existed and they did it without foreign help. (Not even the from the Ottoman Empire.) You don't know whaqt you are talking about. You are posting Moscow's or some other anti-Muslim groups talking points. You have no clue as to what really happens in the Muslim world. You study propagaqnda as if it were fact. That is why your analysis is absolutely wrong.The KSA very much does support the Chechen militias. Many of those militias are affiliated with Salafi/Wahhabi organizations which receive material support from KSA government-sponsored charities such as the Muslim World League. The KSA does not care whether or not these people support or oppose the monarchy. To the KSA, they are pseudo-indispensable tools that can be manipulated into achieving its foreign policy goals. From the very beginning, the KSA has been playing both sides of the so-called "War on Terror" (btw since you like pop culture references, think about Palpatine's modus operandi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy). It is a sick double game that has the potential to start World War III.
Dakardii wrote:
The ignorant people who watched Fox News back in 2001 and used to refer to Qatar as "gutter". I remember that. So do millions of people... Only the unsophisticated and ignorant sincerely believe that the KSA was behind 9/11. You have zero under understanding of what goes on in the Arab or Muslim world.It is precisely for this reason that I (and millions upon millions of others) consider the KSA itself to be responsible for 9/11, and consider the KSA to be (much) worse than Iran.
It's Russia who faked the Moscow apartment bombings in 1999 and blamed the Chechens. Ask Moscovites what they think. They will tell you. Well, maybe not you. You obvious hatred of Muslims and Arabs is far too apparent. Also, that you believe Putin and the Kremlin is a sign of stupidity to the average Russian.It is also precisely for this reason that the Russia will never fully trust the KSA with anything, ever. If those countries ever patch up their diplomatic relations, it will only be for a temporary period and consist of a fragile "cooperative détente" (similar to the current Sino-Russian relationship).
I had hoped that twenty years of losing wars and bankrupting yourselves would have led more Americans to a better understanding of their folly. Some Americans do understand; you don't.