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Your neighbour asked you to help charge her phone in your room overnight and you woke up the following morning and met the phone like this, what will be your reaction, and if you're the owner what would you do?

boi9ja_'s tweet photo. Your neighbour asked you to help charge her phone in your room overnight and you woke up the following morning and met the phone like this, what will be your reaction, and if you're the owner what would you do? https://t.co/z63tNJwp4b

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The irony is becoming almost too perfect. Saudi Arabia has spent decades presenting itself as the emerging superpower of the Arab world. Hundreds of billions in oil revenue. F-15s. Eurofighters. Patriots. American weapons. Western advisers. One of the largest military budgets on the planet. Vision 2030. NEOM. The whole image of a modern regional power capable of projecting influence from the Gulf to the Red Sea. And now Mohammed bin Salman may be looking for help against the Houthis from… Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Syria. Yes, Syria. A country that has spent more than a decade being torn apart by civil war, sanctions, economic collapse, destroyed infrastructure and competing armies. According to Axios, Saudi Arabia and Syria are discussing the possibility of Syrian forces joining the campaign in Yemen, with a potential contribution reportedly numbering 10,000–20,000 troops. Nothing has been finalized yet. Just appreciate the geopolitical comedy here. Riyadh entered Yemen in 2015 at the head of a powerful Arab coalition expecting to restore the internationally recognized government and roll back the Houthis. More than a decade later, the Houthis are still there. Worse, they have become considerably more capable. Now Saudi Arabia is again supporting a major offensive after Houthi territorial advances threatened the Red Sea coast and Bab el-Mandeb. So what does the aspiring regional superpower do? Call everybody. Pakistan? We need help. Turkey? We need air defence, drones, intelligence and technical support. The United States? Patriots and intelligence would be appreciated. And apparently now: “Ahmed, habibi… how many soldiers can Syria spare?” Turkey and Pakistan are already providing military assistance under the new Mecca defence arrangement, with Reuters reporting Turkish support involving air-defence capabilities, drone operators, intelligence, surveillance and logistics. And that is what makes the Syrian angle so brutal politically. Saudi Arabia isn't asking Switzerland. It isn't asking some enormous military empire with limitless manpower. It is reportedly discussing troops with a government trying to rebuild Syria after one of the most destructive civil wars of the 21st century. Imagine spending all those billions building the image of an Arab military heavyweight only to reach the point where the country emerging from the Syrian civil war might become your manpower reserve for Yemen. And the opponent producing this situation? Not NATO. Not China. Not Russia. The Houthis. A movement that Saudi Arabia went to war against more than eleven years ago. This may ultimately be the strangest measure of Saudi military power: The richer and more heavily armed the Kingdom becomes, the longer the list of countries it apparently needs to help it fight Yemen. At this rate, MBS isn't building a coalition. He's building a group chat. Pakistan joined. Turkey joined. America is already in the contacts. Syria may be typing… Houthis changed the group name to: “Regional Superpower Support Group.”

boi9ja_'s tweet photo. The irony is becoming almost too perfect.

Saudi Arabia has spent decades presenting itself as the emerging superpower of the Arab world. Hundreds of billions in oil revenue. F-15s. Eurofighters. Patriots. American weapons. Western advisers. One of the largest military budgets on the planet. Vision 2030. NEOM. The whole image of a modern regional power capable of projecting influence from the Gulf to the Red Sea.

And now Mohammed bin Salman may be looking for help against the Houthis from… Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Syria.

Yes, Syria. A country that has spent more than a decade being torn apart by civil war, sanctions, economic collapse, destroyed infrastructure and competing armies.

According to Axios, Saudi Arabia and Syria are discussing the possibility of Syrian forces joining the campaign in Yemen, with a potential contribution reportedly numbering 10,000–20,000 troops. Nothing has been finalized yet.

Just appreciate the geopolitical comedy here. Riyadh entered Yemen in 2015 at the head of a powerful Arab coalition expecting to restore the internationally recognized government and roll back the Houthis. More than a decade later, the Houthis are still there. Worse, they have become considerably more capable.

Now Saudi Arabia is again supporting a major offensive after Houthi territorial advances threatened the Red Sea coast and Bab el-Mandeb.

So what does the aspiring regional superpower do? Call everybody.

Pakistan? We need help. Turkey? We need air defence, drones, intelligence and technical support. The United States? Patriots and intelligence would be appreciated.

And apparently now: “Ahmed, habibi… how many soldiers can Syria spare?”

Turkey and Pakistan are already providing military assistance under the new Mecca defence arrangement, with Reuters reporting Turkish support involving air-defence capabilities, drone operators, intelligence, surveillance and logistics.

And that is what makes the Syrian angle so brutal politically. Saudi Arabia isn't asking Switzerland. It isn't asking some enormous military empire with limitless manpower. It is reportedly discussing troops with a government trying to rebuild Syria after one of the most destructive civil wars of the 21st century.

Imagine spending all those billions building the image of an Arab military heavyweight only to reach the point where the country emerging from the Syrian civil war might become your manpower reserve for Yemen.

And the opponent producing this situation? Not NATO. Not China. Not Russia. The Houthis. A movement that Saudi Arabia went to war against more than eleven years ago.

This may ultimately be the strangest measure of Saudi military power: The richer and more heavily armed the Kingdom becomes, the longer the list of countries it apparently needs to help it fight Yemen.

At this rate, MBS isn't building a coalition. He's building a group chat.

Pakistan joined. Turkey joined. America is already in the contacts. Syria may be typing…

Houthis changed the group name to: “Regional Superpower Support Group.”

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