Saudi Arabia's defenses...what the Western media ignores!

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Al-Rasid reported to the Western media during the month of October, which included Operation “Yemen Dawn” to curb the terrorist militias in Yemen that sought to control the Bab al-Mandab Strait, in order to complete the encirclement that represents the largest driver of rising energy prices and thus achieves the largest possible loss at the level of the midterm elections. He notes many articles that attacked the Kingdom on the level of its defensive capabilities.

The articles focus on several files, the first of which is the Kingdom’s large military budget, as it is one of the largest investors in the world in building defense military capabilities, which includes, of course, raising local content. Although the number used, which is about eighty billion, is very tempting to use as a “mansheet,” its use alone indicates a structural flaw in the analysis. There are many details about weapons and their suitability for each battle, and the presence of purchases that were not received depending on the pace of production in the factories.

Of course, these analyzes delve into the details of the aircraft that the Kingdom possesses, and sometimes they refer to claims that interceptor missiles have run out, and this is something that is overshadowed by the simplicity of the analysis, from several angles, including that it is a story that can be used on the American defenses in its confrontation with Iran, and you can say it in the Ukrainian or Russian case, and countries do not share in the media the amount of remaining interceptor missiles, nor other means of confrontation and interception. An important point is also missing from these analyses, which is that profit and loss are different in standards. Al-Houthi and the terrorist militias in general, they hope to target oil targets that serve agendas, or civilian objects such as airports and homes, which raises the targeting to news priorities, and the targeting is based on the vast size of the Kingdom, about 2.2 million square kilometers, in the hope that air defenses will not be able to deter it.

The repeated thesis in several articles is also the failure of the alliances led by the Kingdom, and this is considered a type of parody of the Houthi narrative, which can be seen in newspapers and channels affiliated with the Lebanese and Iraqi axis, and its impact on the axis can be called post-shock syndrome, as the Kingdom was not expected to take the step of the Mecca Agreement with Pakistan and Turkey, and the quadripartite coordination that included the Republic of Egypt, which suffers from Houthi tampering by influencing the revenues of the Suez Canal.

But this angle with the Tehran axis has found favor with the West, which is anger at the region’s ability to create a strong alliance that is not based on the West, especially the United States, and militarily, there is no logic in this thesis because the goal of the Mecca alliance is not to win the battle, but rather it is based on several paths of training and sharing intelligence information, in addition to deploying soldiers and defense systems if requested by one of the three countries, just as is done in Article Five of NATO.

The last angle that brought together the articles in “Bloomberg,” “The New York Times,” “CBC,” “The Guardian” and others is Trump’s abandonment of the Kingdom, and this angle is largely understood by Americans at the level of the administration’s unwillingness to open a new front, as it is on the verge of midterm elections, in addition to the siege of Hormuz and the state of alert with Iran, even if the cooperation between the two parties also included intelligence information, but in my opinion, this particular angle was not intended to attack the Kingdom, but rather to say, “Look how.” Trump treats his allies and does not stand with them. This is a narrative that exists in Europe and Ukraine and has a lot of plausibility.

It was noteworthy in all the articles that they brought together sects of the right and the liberal left, which were divided between a position on everything the Kingdom is doing and thus exploiting the current battle, to try to herald the failure of Saudi Arabia’s economic vision, and this is purely a wishful analysis. The other matter is Western supremacy that treats the running out of a missile from the Saudi defenses as a weak point, while Israel’s running out of a missile from its multiple defensive layers and its missile dome, and what is most ridiculous is that this was written from the same publication!

In conclusion, there is no doubt that the Kingdom has achieved an unprecedented response record of more than 92%, and sources indicate higher percentages, and its political weight not only enabled it to succeed in the Mecca Agreement, but the British, French, Greeks and others were keen to participate actively, as the threat to energy sources and the most reliable state as an energy source over the decades, and targeting the main trade corridors is not only a Saudi challenge, and this is what Saudi Arabia has made clear and everyone has realized, away from the bangs of the media.

The point remains that the Western media neglects to assess the extent of the Houthis’ human and geographical losses, as well as the losses of missile and ammunition stores and launching stations with the tightening of the siege on supply lines, not only due to the absence of sources on the ground, but also due to the absence of objectivity in many cases.