BREAKING: TRUMP JUST LOST SAUDI ARABIA

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90. I'm sure the insults don't help, but the Ukraine deal may be more pragmatic

It is plane (pun intended) for all to see that the WWi/WWII style of weapons we still favor are losing their effectiveness. Modern warfare is going to be dominated by drones that cost a tiny fraction of the cost of systems that Saud has been buying from us.

And who are the leaders in these new technologies? Iran (oops), Turkey (OK), and Ukraine. In particular, Ukraine has vastly more real world experience that anybody else in using these technologies on the battlefield. If you haven't been following closely, Ukraine has made all kinds of daring, seemingly impossible strikes at important Russian assets. Like the US, the Russian weapons and defense are all about WWII and cold war machinery. Russia has development highly sophisticated tracking systems that can see any conventional plane anywhere in the theater.

BUT, these systems can't deal with drones that are smaller and can travel in valleys or just 5 feet over the terrain. MBS can see what these drones have done to the US in this war. Americans are not getting the real story. There have been many hard hots on American bases all over the region. There are reports that some reports of American soldiers vacating the basis to hid out in civilian areas because we can't adequately defend our bases. Saud is doing what they have to do. They can't buy these systems from Iran, so they are turning to Ukraine.