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Literally irrelevant. It's called a carrier group and first strike capability.

Yeah. I don't want to go to war with Iran, but I know we'd level the place and take minimal losses. The issue is we'd get stuck nation building again because domestic politics, and we really have no purpose staying there. That's why we'd lose in the long run: we'd get politically tired. But...

Sure, but militarily, Saudi Arabia is useless at fighting, and they have a horrible government. It's not worth it.

First, not so much with American allies, and second, Saudi Arabia is particularly bad. Secret police, kidnapping, murder of an American green card holder, no rights for women, and I could go on. When a country is that bad, and has no hold over us, I have no interest in allying with them.

The enemy of our enemy isn't necessarily our friend though. Saudi Arabia has way too many human rights violations to consider being allies. Look, if they valued human rights at all, I'd consider it, but they don't.

I'm very much fine with abandoning Saudi Arabia. They still don't recognize Israel, and they're doing war crimes, and they are historically the reason for much of Islamism. The one reason we were stuck with them was oil, which we don't need anymore (though the pipeline would have been helpful...

More that while the Houthis are super shady, so is what Saudi Arabia is doing there, including bombing refugee camps. There are estimates that 85,000 people have died because of famine, so the humanitarian need is great, and many of those people are under Houthi control. Meanwhile, I'm not sure...

Probably not a huge amount. Most of the incentive for allying with Israel was Iran getting scary, and wanting Israel as an ally. Honestly, the more Biden empowers Iran, the closer Israel and Saudi Arabia will become. A lot of the credit for Trump's success in the Middle East ironically comes...