Iran War

[Sophie Scholl]

I'd not heard of this - looked at the trailer. It doesn't look bad to be fair.

But really interesting to me that it's basically a story from pre-Islamic Arabia (which sort of makes sense but is still interesting) and the Persians are yet again the baddies with a despotic emperor (Kingsley) trying to crush the Arab tribes and forcing them to cooperate. Poor Persians, it's always them

I was actually contemplating going to see it, but it legit lasted for 1 showing a week for a week near me. 

[The Minsky Moment]

I feel like the Saudis are hurting a lot more than they're letting on and maybe looking for new partners other than the US. Their new movie that was supposed to be their big splash into the global, and especially US, markets is tanking terribly. Their golf league is possibly shuttering. Their financed WWE experiment for American wrestling is facing layoffs and paycuts for those that remain. Something is up...

All that stuff is relatively small scale compared to some of the massive projects that Ozymandias MbS was promoting, like the crazy (multi-?) trillion dollar Neom project, the Red Sea tourism project, Qadiyya . . . all of which appear to be over budget and under-built.

The wheels have been coming off Vision 2030 from the moment the draft plans hit the presses.

[mongers]

I feel like the Saudis are hurting a lot more than they're letting on and maybe looking for new partners other than the US. Their new movie that was supposed to be their big splash into the global, and especially US, markets is tanking terribly. Their golf league is possibly shuttering. Their financed WWE experiment for American wrestling is facing layoffs and paycuts for those that remain. Something is up...

All that stuff is relatively small scale compared to some of the massive projects that Ozymandias MbS was promoting, like the crazy (multi-?) trillion dollar Neom project, the Red Sea tourism project, Qadiyya . . . all of which appear to be over budget and under-built.

The wheels have been coming off Vision 2030 from the moment the draft plans hit the presses.

Those are plans worthy of the orange buffoon, bet he puts in a bid for the projects remains and tries to move/build them in the USA.

[crazy canuck]

And reporting that China is now openly allowing the supply of dual use (often German designed and then Chinese built - no doubt the IP extracted via a JV) material, particularly for drone and missile manufacturer, to both Russia and Iran.

Bad news for Ukraine

Shielbh got it part right.  The reports are the China is continuing to supply drone parts.

[Sheilbh]

And more openly. One example cited was a company that manufactures engines used in Shahed drones. Their website has an image of what appears to be a Shahed drone with the slogan "innovative solutions for aviation engines". The company's line was that they don't supply them to Russia or Iran and that they may have used AI to generate marketing material.