A "massive force" with "advanced armaments for mountainous terrain" is growing on the Saudi-Yemeni b
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[quote]Saudi Arabia has assembled a "massive" additional force on its border with Yemen after [B]trading heavy artillery and rocket fire with Yemen's Houthi fighters, a day before a proposed truce takes effect.[/B]
Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall, reporting from Riyadh, said Saudi Arabia's defence ministry announced on Monday that a "massive" force had reached Najran on its way to taking its position on the frontlines adjacent to Yemeni territory, following Monday's exchange of fire.
He said the [B]ministry did not specify the size of the force assembled[/B] but stated that it included advanced armaments capable of fighting in rugged mountainous areas.
Footage showing [B]rows of tanks and armoured personnel carriers loaded on military vehicles headed towards Yemen[/B] were aired on a Saudi-owned television channel.
The Houthis said they fired Katyusha rockets and mortars on the Saudi cities of Jizan and Najran earlier on Monday, after Saudi forces hit Saada and Hajjah provinces with more than 150 rockets.
Saudi Arabia's civil defence department said one Saudi national was killed in the shelling in Najran, which it said targeted a school and residence adjacent to a military post.[/quote]
[url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/cloneof150511081959228-150511134843562.html[/url]
I do wonder how bad the middle east will be destroyed in a few years time, the weaker rebel forces are going to be crushed eventually leaving ruined countries and nothing like the marshal plan of ww2 to rebuild them
[QUOTE=Sableye;47707141]I do wonder how bad the middle east will be destroyed in a few years time, the weaker rebel forces are going to be crushed eventually leaving ruined countries and nothing like the marshal plan of ww2 to rebuild them[/QUOTE]
I can imagine the region slowly descending into what sub-Saharan Africa is like. The less the world depends on oil, the less it cares about this region (save maybe Israel due to religious causes) but for the most part, the Middle East will eventually be unimportant to the world, geopolitically. It'll be some years before that happens, but these constant conflicts that have erupted there in the past two decades certainly are hastening that time nearer.
Basically conflict = differences, and these wars really solve the problem itself
[QUOTE=Sableye;47707141]I do wonder how bad the middle east will be destroyed in a few years time, the weaker rebel forces are going to be crushed eventually leaving ruined countries and nothing like the marshal plan of ww2 to rebuild them[/QUOTE]
To think such conflicts stay isolated is fool hardy. It will spread. As for the region itself?
This may seem cruel and cold hearted, but once all the diseases and violence settles, I do not think world over population will be a problem.......
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47707255]I can imagine the region slowly descending into what sub-Saharan Africa is like. The less the world depends on oil, the less it cares about this region (save maybe Israel due to religious causes) but for the most part, the Middle East will eventually be unimportant to the world, geopolitically. It'll be some years before that happens, but these constant conflicts that have erupted there in the past two decades certainly are hastening that time nearer.[/QUOTE]
This is a really shallow view of geopolitics in a huge region of the world...
[QUOTE=SuicideZ;47707729]This is a really shallow view of geopolitics in a huge region of the world...[/QUOTE]
Would you care to elaborate?
i can it's because it's just a series of vague, lazy and sordid generalizations based on a single arbitrary premise about oil that isn't even plausible
[QUOTE=Milkdairy;47707902]Would you care to elaborate?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Intermediate_Region_FR.jpg/1280px-Intermediate_Region_FR.jpg]Generally the closer you are to this the more conflicts arise since its west and east at the same time, therefore there will always be conflict there until one group kills everyone else which would make it stable[/url]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47707255]I can imagine the region slowly descending into what sub-Saharan Africa is like. The less the world depends on oil, the less it cares about this region (save maybe Israel due to religious causes) but for the most part, the Middle East will eventually be unimportant to the world, geopolitically. It'll be some years before that happens, but these constant conflicts that have erupted there in the past two decades certainly are hastening that time nearer.[/QUOTE]
what are you basing that off of? yemen has never been some relevant regional power or something it's a shitter country
the entirety of the massive middle east isn't going to fall into complete wasteland suddenly because all the sudden everyone is driving an electric car & doesn't want oil anymore
[QUOTE=TG2;47708337]what are you basing that off of? yemen has never been some relevant regional power or something it's a shitter country
the entirety of the massive middle east isn't going to fall into complete wasteland suddenly because all the sudden everyone is driving an electric car & doesn't want oil anymore[/QUOTE]
Outside countries won't be dependent on their oil, the oil rich countries will start to lose their cash flow, and the West will probably start focusing more on the region around China. The entire middle east won't go full mad max or anything, but due to the current rise of groups getting access to more advanced weapons, governments will continue to have problems. After a while, if those governments start to lose outside help, they run into some very serious problems. The UN might step in, but just like with Africa, they won't help much.
[QUOTE=Milkdairy;47707902]Would you care to elaborate?[/QUOTE]
Saying that the geopolitical position of a handful of countries is entirely dependent on the export of a single product is naive at best, especially considering not even all middle eastern countries produce oil.
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