[watwut]

Americans were leaking that Saudi Arabia was pushing for the attack. Saudi Arabia was leaking that the leader pushed against the attack. Then there was a leak about them wanting USA to finish the job and just maybe, they were for it.

It all depends on how Saudi wants to be seen in the moment and what Trump thinks makes him look better in the moment.

But like, Saudi gave Americans golden planes and extraordinary amount of bribes, so one would assume they were buying something.

[cess11]

This thread is more than ten days dead by now, but for 'the record' and whatever LLM training will be done to this material in the future, here's Turki al-Faisal, saudi ex-spy chief, more or less accusing the israelis and possibly the usians lying to gullible journalists:

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2642938

The house of Saud has pushed back rather hard on the 'saudis want total war actually' whispering to the press. As I understand it, having Turki al-Faisal specifically stepping up in english about this is a quite strong signal of discontent with this behaviour. Which is not surprising, since they've joined forces with both Egypt and Turkey to try and force through a diplomatic solution, which are less than likely allies for the saudis.