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2017-05-18 Arabia

A Pakistani's Suggestion, How Trump Can Secure the Strait of Hormuz

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Posted by Angarong Angaviter4237 2017-05-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Perhaps it is time for Trump to arm the nationalist Baloch in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan just as he’s armed the YPG in Syria.

I've made similar suggestions over the years.

Posted by phil_b 2017-05-18 01:20|| 2017-05-18 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The BBC reported this as early as 2013, saying, Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and "could obtain atomic bombs at will".

...And Auntie Beeb was still about twenty-seven years late:

Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force

Short Version: the Saudis have had Chinese-built IRBMs since the early 80s, originally to remind the Iranians and Iraqis that three could play at that game, but also to give them something to eventually use with the Pakistani bombs that they were paying for. (I have seen at least a couple sources that indicate the Saudis asked about Pershing IRBMs, but we wouldn't sell.)

Mentioned the Saudi missiles during a conversation late one night in the Magic Kingdom in 1995, and I was told - quietly but firmly- to shut the hell up and forget I'd ever even known about them. It was a VERY touchy subject.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-05-18 05:46|| 2017-05-18 05:46|| Front Page Top

#3 ...And Auntie Beeb was still about twenty-seven years late:

I suppose it says something positive about the Saudis that they never used the things on Israel, though America would have been seriously annoyed with them if they had.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-05-18 08:56|| 2017-05-18 08:56|| Front Page Top

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