Saif al-Arab
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Wonderful video and speeches. This is indeed a major step towards the right direction and long overdue. Now this relationship must evolve and include other Arab countries and eventually all of them as proposed by the Arab states in the form of the Arab Joint Military.
There should be close cooperation on all military fronts between Arab nations, especially neighbors, joint military exercises, joint JV's, close and continuous intelliagece sharing, especially in the fight against terror, political dialogue via the military at all times irrespective of the political decisions etc.
This is a very good thing by all accounts. I am sure that cooperation occurred earlier but it was not made public.
I see no reason why this relationship cannot evolve in the fashion that I mentioned. This relationship should definitely include a future Syria, a future independent Palestine, Lebanon, of course Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, GCC and all the Arab states willing to cooperate with each other.
Anyway if one take a look at some Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and in general Arab military forums the reaction to this visit was very positive.
BTW the Iraqi interior minister Qassim al-Araji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasim_al-Araji
visited Riyadh and met with MBS:
This is quite significant because Al-Araji is a senior member of the Badr Organization.
Also US officials were involved in the meeting:
Obviously this had to do with the regional fight against ISIS but probably also many other topics.
Regardless of what dialogue is always the best way forward and more so between brothers and sisters. No sane person should wish for enmity despite political disagreements or non-clever regime policies or a few idiotic clerics here and there on each side. Nobody wins from this. House of Saud make a grave mistake when they ignored Iraq post 2003 during the Al-Maliki era in hindsight. They probably had their reasons (according to them) but it was a wrong policy. Many wrongs were committed by various regimes in the region. Mistakes that average people had nothing to do with. But that is the past, the regimes should look towards the future and not to commit past mistakes. This is at least my opinion.
Another video:
@Gasoline bro, if you are seeing this post, I am interested in your views about the potential future cooperation between KSA and Iraq.
At the end of the day blood is thicker than water and will remain so as it has for millennia.
BTW ever since King Salman came to power. Sudan relations back on track and as close as ever (recent military exercises even, Omar al-Bashir visited King Salman a few days ago) and similarly with Algeria. What is left is Al-Assad. Well, no comment. However even that, I believe, can be somehow solved in a parallel universe at first, given the fact that Syria (Al-Assad regime) and KSA had cordial relations prior to 2011. For instance Bashar was one of the honorary guests when KAUST was opened back in 2009. The Al-Assad family has even intermarried with the House of Saud.
And even the crook Ali Abdullah Saleh was there as can be seen. Well, history is a funny thing.
Qatar is a temporal thing and I don't even include that for obvious reasons. The Qatari Emir already publicly admitted (in a speech to his people a few days ago) that Qatar is working to solve the conflict. That's pretty much an admission of them wanting normalization of ties and to compromise on issues.
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