Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Is Saudi Arabia Ditching the US Dollar? || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Sailing combat ships in peacetime is trivial. What really matters is being able to accurately strike targets, perform effective damage control, and keep moving even when isolated from supplies and support. None of these has the PLAN experienced while fighting an enemy who's firing live anti-ship missiles.
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  2. Probably when they took Mecca from the Hashemites (now just Jordan) back when fighting was primarily by riflemen on camels and horses. Even then the Saudis succeeded because the British were mad at the Hejaz Sharifate and refused to come to their aid.
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  3. They'd be technical intelligence agents, not human ones. Professional spooks could be a Sam Fisher instead of a James Bond.
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