Everyone does it tho, quoted post below was Israel. I don’t know Indonesia has such capability or not.
Guidance GPS nya dibuat bingung.
Yes, Russian EW has advanced so much.
Oh speaking of Indonesia. Am not sure the anti-Russian Indonesian formiler who spent time last year mocking Russia's ability realized it yet, but at this point, Russia is a lot better in modern warfare than most Asian NATO-modeled Army (incl. Indonesia) and getting close to NATO.
Meanwhile Saudi stance,
“From the conversations I’ve been having here in Riyadh and in Washington, I’d describe Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s view of the Israeli invasion of Gaza today like this: Get out as soon as possible. All Israel is doing at this point is killing more and more civilians, turning Saudis who favored normalization with Israel against it, creating more recruits for Al Qaeda and ISIS, empowering Iran and its allies, fomenting instability and driving away much-needed foreign investment from this region. The idea of wiping out Hamas “once and for all” is a pipe dream, in the Saudi view. If Israel wants to continue to do special operations in Gaza to get the leadership, no problem. But no boots permanently on the ground. Please get to a full cease-fire and hostage release as soon as possible and focus instead on the U.S.-Saudi-Israeli-Palestinian security-normalization deal.”
One of the things I notice about these rulers and their advisors is the kind of comical simpleton analysis they came up with.
"boots out ==>cease fire ==> release hostage ==> and we get back to normalization hooray"
Yeah, I would like to see Saudi of all countries to start normalization. It'll be a lot easier to discredit them, kill their talking points, and eventually the main goal, overthrow them.
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I have always maintained that to kill the force of normalization is to morally kill the Saudi-backed Salafi movement. And there's nothing in this world that will help this goal than a Saudi that normalizes with israel after a televized killing of 20K+ people. It' going to be a lot of stress for their Salafi minions worldwide who emphasize unconditional 'Sami'na Was ta To'na' to openly traitorous leaders and explain at the same time to their followers why they need to heed their leaders.
I don't think the commoners would ever accept the usual 'We hear and we obey" while we bombard the internet with images of torn babies from Gaza.
That way we can make the masses add the crucial burden to normalize in these leaders (who wish to normalize) hands. Am not sure we can be a burden Israel now, but we sure can make things hard for their 'friends'.
Why their 'friends' first ?
Remember kids, like what I tell you in the Israel-Palestine war thread, you cannot march on Jerusalem before you politically, militarily, and economically subdue the Arab capitals. Israel knows this, that is why they emphasize a lot for normalization because they know what's coming.
Why target Salafis ?
Because the Salafis are adherents to traditional and puritanical Islam.
Why is it matter, this traditional Islam?
Because as Sam P. Huntington predicted correctly as far back as 1995, people will eventually return to their roots. That means the window of opportunity where israel could capitalize on 'abangan' Muslims, secular Muslims or Westernized Muslims to play to their tune is a window that is fast coming to an end.
Not a big deal right ?
This was written in 1995, at the peak of Western liberal dominion all over the world. In 2024 and beyond, Bin Salman and Bin Zayed (and his likes) know that they're under even more trouble moving forward. The Americans are not going to be there forever, and looking at the combat record of Middle Eastern national 'armies' collapsing against armed militia, it's even more precarious.
- The collapse of the Iraqi army against ISIS in 2014
- The near defeat of Syrian Arab Army against rag-tag militia
- The failure of the multinational high-tech Arab coalition against the Houthis
- The failure of Isreal to prevent Hamas attack
In all these cases, the Arab asses were saved to a certain extent due to almost unlimited outside assistance and not either their competence or their shiny imported weapons. They know it won't be there forever and making enemies with your population (who could turn against you) is a recipe for long-term disaster. Wrong move and in the wrong time, they could ended up like Ceausescu.
So the Saudis (I mean Bin Salman) getting the heat from the development in Gaza is legit, if you think from their perspective. It's not because they love Gaza, but because they know the longer the war persists, the less time they will have in their throne.
If they think that everything will be 'all is well' after the IDF retreated from Gaza, I have a bridge to sell to them