I would guess the Pakistan Army has given the Gulf States their support for this diplomatic brinkmanship. If the Pakistan Gov sever diplomatic ties as well then we have a completely different ball game.

The Mad Mullahs are slowly but steadily marching into a two front war. They are shaping a strategic shit-storm consisting of several hundred thousand Pak Army troops on their eastern frontier and the same numbers of Arabs on a western frontier (bolstered by tens of thousands of Pak regulars) that forms a 800 km wide noose around the Shia neck.

The Fruitcake on both sides are now pulling both ends of the Gordian Knot. For the life of me we had the Iranian Fruitcake in check for decades and as such there wasn’t anyone pulling on the other end. Instead of putting the Gulf Fruitcake in the same political straitjacket we did the opposite and let the rabid dogs out.

So what?

The Paks carry the big stick that trumps all other sticks. If you believe the average Pakistani doesn’t loathe the Shia as much as the average Gulfie then you are a dangerous imbecile. The only thing that would be exercising the Pak High Command is would ‘Bare-chested Idiot on a White Horse’ Putin give the Mad Mullahs a kiloton match for what the Paks would give the KSA. After all the HoS have already paid for it and chesty Putin has thousands to spare

The great irony is giving someone a nuclear arsenal wouldn’t violate the treaty that has triggered this whole mess. The Mad Mullah would simply argue that sovereign States accepting a gifted nuclear capability to counter nuclear blackmail is the cornerstone of NATO, and indeed Western, peace and prosperity.

The big difference is they are treading this well-worn path to peaceful and prosperous democracy whilst engaged in a war of unspeakable barbarity.

Like the man said we may not be interested in their war but their war is interested in us.

You couldn’t make this shit up. How the hell did we get into this position??

RC