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_Arabia_
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While the Arabized Mullah enemy regime is getting carpet bombed and humiliated in front of the entire world, most of their leadership annihilated, losing 10's of billions of USD (if not in the 100's when the war ends), 1 sovereign wealth fund from KSA (PIF) has within just the span of 12 months earned the equivalent of 3/4 of the entire Iranian GDP.
02/01/2026 Argaam
Logo of Public Investment Fund (PIF)
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) ranked fifth among the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), after its net assets amounted to $1.15 trillion, recent data from the SWF Institute showed.
PIF's assets rose by $226 billion from $925 billion by the end of December 2024.
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Ukrainians are probably the most talented and capable people in the world in this regard. Their experience and sharing of intelligence is invaluable. KSA has been a good friend towards Ukraine as well and KSA is trusted by Ukraine.
Numerous Chinese drones have been made within KSA for years - several local alterations exist as well.
Extremely interesting what our friend Faisal Abbas spoke about concerning the KSA-Ukraine deal of purchasing Ukraine drone technology. Apparently the Ukrainian army has great success stopping Russian drones with drones that cost just 1000 USD to produce. KSA will acquire this technology and in return help Ukraine economically.
KSA has extensive experience shooting down drones and ballistic missiles - one of the most experienced armies in the world in this regard.
PIF assets rise to $1.15T
02/01/2026 Argaam
Logo of Public Investment Fund (PIF)
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) ranked fifth among the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), after its net assets amounted to $1.15 trillion, recent data from the SWF Institute showed.
PIF's assets rose by $226 billion from $925 billion by the end of December 2024.
PIF assets rise to $1.15T
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) ranked fifth among the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), after its net assets amounted to $1.15 trillion
www.argaam.com
Ukrainians are probably the most talented and capable people in the world in this regard. Their experience and sharing of intelligence is invaluable. KSA has been a good friend towards Ukraine as well and KSA is trusted by Ukraine.
Numerous Chinese drones have been made within KSA for years - several local alterations exist as well.
Extremely interesting what our friend Faisal Abbas spoke about concerning the KSA-Ukraine deal of purchasing Ukraine drone technology. Apparently the Ukrainian army has great success stopping Russian drones with drones that cost just 1000 USD to produce. KSA will acquire this technology and in return help Ukraine economically.
KSA has extensive experience shooting down drones and ballistic missiles - one of the most experienced armies in the world in this regard.
lightning f57
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This threads a total mess
Falcon29
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You are not helping. He is my friend and respected member from old forum.
Anyway I don't know why so many are peeking here. Arabs are not monolith it's few hundred millions with dozen + nations so we share perspectives between each other respectfully.
I just asked him to bring the tone down a little
The fake Prime minister of Pakistan with a self imposed dictator. You will be wise not to rely on their word.
RescueRanger
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Mod note: Dont insult arabs by calling them racist names. Zero tolerance for such BS. I will ban you, you can cry later then.
_Arabia_
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I am Sunni Shafi'i Muslim. This is not about sect or support for the US or Israel. It is about removing or raining in, at least, a hostile regime (Iranian regime) that has done nothing but cause opportunistic negative meddling in the region (Arab world) since 1979. We want a sane regime/leaders in Iran so we can have normal neighborly relations with a region of the world (South Iran in particular) and people (millions of Iranian Arabs, Sunni Persians and South Iranians in general that we have had millennia old ties with) that we should have no reason to have hostile ties with and which prior to 1979 was not the case. There are millions of people in South Iran and Arabia (GCC) with ties to both countries. Far more than any other Arab states - most of which have no such ties at all.
We have influenced them greatly. Religiously, culturally, linguistically, ethnically etc. Even most of their pre-Islamic civilization was heavily influenced by our much older Semitic civilizations in all spheres as well.
I have a far, far bigger problem with Arab traitors who are not loyal to their own countries but to a foreign hostile and failed regime (Iranian regime).
This regime is continuing to destroy Iran and there is no way that they can win any war or conflict. It is just a question of time before things change for the better either forcefully or internally.
Anyway KSA-Iraq ties (government and people to people) are unbreakable:
We are relying on ourselves. We are the largest country in the region (by far) with the largest economy with one of the strongest militaries in the world and one of the most battle proven in recent times in terms of air defense.
We also always stood by Pakistan at all times during your most difficult moments.
Nobody is going to or can invade KSA and a few Iranian firecrackers on 1 military base (Prince Sultan Air Base - which is enormous) is not going to change anything.
We have shown great restraint despite being armed with ballistic missiles far greater in size, range and warhead than anything that Iran has, not to mention our Air Force which is one of the most potent in the world and could easily destroy every target within Iran.
Good interview - in particular the part related to our region and countries.
KSA is well aware of what Israel desires in this regard - a GCC - Iran conflict that will destroy/weaken both. KSA/GCC is not going to fall for that. However KSA can no longer be fully neutral when Iran attacks our territory so now we are going to host US offensive operations. That was not the case prior to the mostly drone attacks. Another failure by the Iranian regime. Because none of those drone attacks impact anything of note within KSA and life is going on as normal without any disturbances - whether aviation, business, sports etc. The only thing of note that was postponed was the Formula 1 race in Jeddah.
Also there is no treason involved, as many claim, because Iran never ended their support for Houthis (our adversaries and a group that they supported while they were actively attacking KSA) so KSA allowing US reinforcements in the region in our own sovereign military base (Prince Sultan Air Base) is a totally different matter and frankly none of Iran's business or anybody else.
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_Arabia_
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Real data
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• A+ rating reaffirmed by S&P and Fitch.
• Aa3 rating confirmed by Moody’s.
• Outlook across agencies: Stable.
Key highlights:
• GDP growth expected: 4.4% in 2026.
• Non-oil economy now 71% of GDP.
• Ability to export oil via the Red Sea pipeline reduces Hormuz risks.
• Net national assets expected to average 42% of GDP (2026–2029).
• Vision 2030 diversification continues with major investments.
Bottom line:
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Young Saudi inventors are making history again.
At the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, siblings Sari and Aljawhara Saud Al-Qahtani won major honors: two worldwide Grand Prizes (for robotics and public education) and gold medals with honors.
Eight other Saudis also won silver medals.
We are immensely proud of you all.
He and other inferiority ridden trolls, likely Arabized, can insult all they like to. Just a sign that they have no ability to argue their case or argue against any of my posts or points.
You are right though, there is no single Arab opinion as there are 550 million of us spread across all the continents of the world but that goes for every people of this size.
However I would claim that Iranian regime policies in the Arab world are mostly deeply disliked by the vast majority of Arabs in the region and not seen as something positive. Even among most Arab Shia - in particularly those well educated and informed.
My opposition is against the Iranian regime policies in the Arab world - most Arabs have no problem with Iran or Iranians otherwise, unless hostile.
Even Iranians themselves will admit this.
We do not want any harm to ordinary civilian Iranians but we expect the same thing in return - no support for terrorist proxies within the Arab world, opportunistic meddling, now attacks against civilian areas - ironically killing more South Asians expats than any locals, etc.
And if people had a problem with ordinary non-hostile Iranians - we (GCC Arabs) would not be hosting the largest Iranian diaspora in the region. Or have welcomed Iranian migrants (Iranian Arabs, Sunni Persians, Lurs and Baloch mostly) for the past 2-3 centuries in large numbers - now fully assimilated and intermarried.
The key is again - a sane neighborhood and mutually beneficial cooperation.
Anyway extremely busy lately so logging off again.
Falcon29
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That is the thing. US wants GCC and Saudi Arabia to officially declare a side in the war so they can give legitimacy for Iran to target Saudis and GCC. If you notice the short range ballistic missile and drones capability of Iran aren't being degraded at all. But the long range ones reaching Israel are. Iranian gas or oil facility was targeted today by Israel. Iran was unable to fire back at Israel so it attacked a gas facility in Qatar and maybe more in the region.
US won't provide enough missile defense batteries to Saudi Arabia and GCC like they did for Israel. And for some strange reason they are holding back when it comes to targeting Iranian short range capabilities.
Either they want Arab states to commit ground troops into Iran or they and Israel want to kill two birds with one stone.
They're not leaving much of a choice for these Arab states, and I think this is by design. I don't feel GCC and Saudi Arabia are adequately prepared for this but in the end I think Arabs will be able to protect themselves, however , at what cost is my concern. Saudi Arabia and GCC were slowly going places.
It's not surprising Israel wants to set them back decades.
This is why security is so important. And taking out your enemies is important. They cannot exist in their current forms. That's why I advocate for security and leveraging military means to achieve security before we can truly be left alone in peace. Whether that's Israel or Iran (if it takes bad trajectory in this war ) . I am not okay with anti-Arab and or anti-Sunni people seeking fights with us. Just want that to be clear. I'll give benefit of doubt. I know very well there's some terrible sectarian people out there that I wouldn't spend a second to try reasoning with.
The agenda is bigger than it looks which is why they put Israel in the middle of this. I'm afraid Arab leadership didn't prepare properly for the big political game. Which is going to put us on the backfoot for awhile.
Don't trust the USA. The US military is one thing but they take orders from the Zionist leadership based in Washington. The Jews are heavily influencing the government in the US and they have a strictly Jewish Supremacist agenda. Jews want all nations around them to be weak. The Abraham submission accords didn't work out for them so now they want to punish Saudi Arabia and GCC by throwing them into this war.
As an Arab we should shift alliance entirely away from US and to Europe as they are our most natural and dependable allies. Most similar ideology wise. Middle East is bastion of Islam and Semitic history while Europe is the true bastion of Christianity even if the religion itself was born in the middle east.
Obviously this change doesn't happen over night and in middle of war. I'm way paranoid and distrustful of Jewish people than you are so I believe they have an agenda and aren't actually trying to achieve regime change in Iran. Instead trying to facilitate Iran - Iraq war like scenario.
Falcon29
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After Qatari gas facilities being hit and more, UAE better not even think of pitching Abraham Accords or any kinds of relations with Israel after this. Israel deliberately acts in manner for GCC to be harmed.
This is a big set back for Qatar until it get facilities back and running, it will keep losing money.
The US also did not adequately protect GCC nor Saudi Arabia. There are many confirmed hits. The US provided a ton of free missile defense for Israel.
GCC leadership need to rethink things after this war. Not with Iran but with Israel and the US. And start taking military training seriously. Ask Syrians, Pakistanis, Turks for help. Increase # of standing military and reserves even if your nations are small you need more troops.
You cannot gamble with these monarch systems that are selecting least qualified but safest/most loyal options in high ranking military positions. This is a backwards system that Arabs stand to lose from.
Not to say we are weak, we aren't, we're staying out of war for time being. But sooner or later we will need to remind the world we aren't weak and flex our muscles.
This is a big set back for Qatar until it get facilities back and running, it will keep losing money.
The US also did not adequately protect GCC nor Saudi Arabia. There are many confirmed hits. The US provided a ton of free missile defense for Israel.
GCC leadership need to rethink things after this war. Not with Iran but with Israel and the US. And start taking military training seriously. Ask Syrians, Pakistanis, Turks for help. Increase # of standing military and reserves even if your nations are small you need more troops.
You cannot gamble with these monarch systems that are selecting least qualified but safest/most loyal options in high ranking military positions. This is a backwards system that Arabs stand to lose from.
Not to say we are weak, we aren't, we're staying out of war for time being. But sooner or later we will need to remind the world we aren't weak and flex our muscles.
_Arabia_
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KSA is completely peaceful and nothing of worth has been touched let alone destroyed. Life continues as normal in every sphere, whether daily life, sports, international events, Umrah, economy etc.
In fact KSA is the biggest beneficiary of this conflict so far.
95% of what is reported on this forum and on X is utter delusional nonsense.
A good example:
Iran has had 10.000's of casualties, their leadership annihilated, 100's of billions of USD in material loses, most of their Air Force and navy annihilated, their missiles severely depleted, 100's of bases targeted and other infrastructure.
KSA in return has lost 2 people (1 Indian and 1 Bangladeshi expat), no material damage whatsoever other than very limited damage in Ras Tanura and Yanbu and nothing of worth destroyed in the Prince Sultan Air Base.
No amount of firecrackers (drones and Russian/Chinese/North Korean origin missiles) is going to change anything of notice in a country like KSA which is 1.5 times the size of Iran.
During the past 3-4 weeks KSA has made more money selling oil than the previous 3 months:
oilprice.com
Mullah regime supporters are living in some alternative universe where they are somehow "winning" by being carpet bombed 24/7.
Zero damage to the US and Israel as well. Less than 20 US and Israeli soldiers killed. It is all a big joke. Targeting infrastructure in tiny Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar (extremely limited overall) is some kind of victory now?
Iraqi Sunni Arab insurgents armed with light weaponry, on a good day, used to kill at times, 20 US soldiers, in a single day (sometimes more) during the height of the insurgency. Just to put it into perspective.
It is very hilarious to witness the usual suspects and their usual comedy in this regard. Personally I am having many good laughs reading some of the nonsense here and elsewhere. Long may it continue.
As for wars with Iranians - they are yet to win a single war against Arabs in their entire history - so let us not even go there.
In fact KSA is the biggest beneficiary of this conflict so far.
95% of what is reported on this forum and on X is utter delusional nonsense.
A good example:
Iran has had 10.000's of casualties, their leadership annihilated, 100's of billions of USD in material loses, most of their Air Force and navy annihilated, their missiles severely depleted, 100's of bases targeted and other infrastructure.
KSA in return has lost 2 people (1 Indian and 1 Bangladeshi expat), no material damage whatsoever other than very limited damage in Ras Tanura and Yanbu and nothing of worth destroyed in the Prince Sultan Air Base.
No amount of firecrackers (drones and Russian/Chinese/North Korean origin missiles) is going to change anything of notice in a country like KSA which is 1.5 times the size of Iran.
During the past 3-4 weeks KSA has made more money selling oil than the previous 3 months:
Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Oil Exports Jump To Nearly 4 Million bpd | OilPrice.com
Saudi Arabia's oil exports through the Red Sea port of Yanbu are projected to reach a record 3.8 million barrels per day, bypassing the blockaded Strait of Hormuz despite new risks from regional conflicts.
oilprice.com
Mullah regime supporters are living in some alternative universe where they are somehow "winning" by being carpet bombed 24/7.
Zero damage to the US and Israel as well. Less than 20 US and Israeli soldiers killed. It is all a big joke. Targeting infrastructure in tiny Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar (extremely limited overall) is some kind of victory now?
Iraqi Sunni Arab insurgents armed with light weaponry, on a good day, used to kill at times, 20 US soldiers, in a single day (sometimes more) during the height of the insurgency. Just to put it into perspective.
It is very hilarious to witness the usual suspects and their usual comedy in this regard. Personally I am having many good laughs reading some of the nonsense here and elsewhere. Long may it continue.
As for wars with Iranians - they are yet to win a single war against Arabs in their entire history - so let us not even go there.
_Arabia_
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This is Riyadh (the most targeted region due to the proximity in KSA terms (140 km) of the Prince Sultan Air Base - during this imaginary non-existing war (in the case of KSA):
Goes for all of KSA - whether the tiniest mountain, desert or coastal village to all the largest cities across the country whether north, south, central, west or east.
This was Abha (close to the North Yemeni border and a city located 2270 meters above sea level) a few days ago:
Zero noise from the Houthi cult throughout.
Najran which sits right on the North Yemeni border yesterday:
Reading this forum, it would appear like KSA is somehow facing an imaginary existential crisis 24/7 due to a few drones of which 99% are dealt with successfully. Drones that can barely damage anything of note to begin with.
Lastly if the Iranian regime goal was to remove the US from those small GCC states - they have failed (like usual) once again because regimes there have just publicly announced that their cooperation with the US will just increase after this. What is worse - expect Israel to get a greater foothold and cooperation in places like UAE, Bahrain and even Qatar and potentially Oman. So in other words - the publicly stated goals of the Iranian regime, removal of US and Israeli influence in the region, is now only going to backfire. This is actually a negative for KSA long term but once again wherever the Iranian Mullah regime is present - misery and failure follows.
Goes for all of KSA - whether the tiniest mountain, desert or coastal village to all the largest cities across the country whether north, south, central, west or east.
This was Abha (close to the North Yemeni border and a city located 2270 meters above sea level) a few days ago:
Zero noise from the Houthi cult throughout.
Najran which sits right on the North Yemeni border yesterday:
Reading this forum, it would appear like KSA is somehow facing an imaginary existential crisis 24/7
due to a few drones of which 99% are dealt with successfully. Drones that can barely damage anything of note to begin with.Lastly if the Iranian regime goal was to remove the US from those small GCC states - they have failed (like usual) once again because regimes there have just publicly announced that their cooperation with the US will just increase after this. What is worse - expect Israel to get a greater foothold and cooperation in places like UAE, Bahrain and even Qatar and potentially Oman. So in other words - the publicly stated goals of the Iranian regime, removal of US and Israeli influence in the region, is now only going to backfire. This is actually a negative for KSA long term but once again wherever the Iranian Mullah regime is present - misery and failure follows.
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