[api]

They're doing great if you're on the beneficiary side: oil companies, defense contractors, the Trump family, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc.

All that is at the expense of the rest of the economy. The sectors that are hit the hardest tend to be, with the exception of those above, the ones who voted (disproportionately) for these people.

... which is what you get with a narcissist. The people hurt the most by a narcissist tend to be those closest or those that support them.

[vkou]

I'm pretty sure that Qatar and the Saudis are not exactly pleased with having their stuff blown up.

[bix6]

True but I’ve heard they are in support of Iran getting decimated so they can fill the power vacuum.

[api]

So many Americans don't understand that these two "branches" of the Muslim world are at odds as much if not more than Israel and the Muslim world.

That whole region is a mess of deep long-standing divisions.

[dmix]

I'd still take UAE vs Saudi, over Iran destabilizing everything in the region (Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Western Sahara). Not to mention supporting Russia and North Korea.

[vkou]

Right, the Saudis have never destabilized anything, nor have their embrace of batshit-insane wahhabism created the environment and the people that flew two airplanes into some highrises a few decades ago.

[vkou]

I think they are finding that a bad peace was better than a good war.

[petre]

Qatar is pretty much screwed as they can't get the gas out of the Gulf. The Saudis will have to eventually do something about Yemen, because Bab Al-Mandab tanker traffic is also under threat and Asia id paying good money for fossil fuels right now.

[tokai]

>defense contractors They are happy about missing out on the largest rearmament or Europe since the ww2?