Saudi Arabia is a terrorist sponsoring state that keeps women subservient. Why would we sell weaponry to such as despotic country. Sheer lunacy.
Just looking at that, it makes no sense. But, looking at the bigger picture of Japan and Germany, it made sense for a time for these democracies to ally themselves with a monster.
Iran is controlled by monsters, and Egypt/Saudi Arabia are the primary force opposed to them at this time.
Did you visit Iran and Saudi Arabia? I'd much rather be an ordinary citizen of the former than of the latter.
Also, one of these two countries have a far richer history and culture, and one of the two is definitely more democratic than the other (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index).
Can you please provide sources? Saudi Arabia is bombing innocent civilians and children in Yemen right now. Most of the 9/11 Hijackers were from Saudi Arabia too.
Are there bad guys in Saudi government? There sure are.
Are innocents being killed, and is that horrible? You bet. But they're being killed just as much by the Iranians as the Saudis.
But the Iranians are not going to stop in Yemen, and if they're not stopped, there will certainly be more innocents killed in other countries.
Lets say the Saudis were completely cut off. What then? Iran gets Yemen, and then topples the Saudis? How does that help anyone out?
Sometimes, there are not any really great answers.
Sometimes, just like in WW II when the US and GBR allied with the Soviets, you have to do what you can to tackle the bigger problem.
This is false. It is the Saudi's who are denying essential supplies to the general populous. 14 million at risk. There is no way the Iranians would have anywhere near that sort of effect.
Iranian involvment in the war has grown because the saw a oppertunity jab Saudi Arabia in the soft underbelly.
But the argument that the innocents are killed just as much by Iran is simply inaccurate. Saudi Arabia is attacking civilian targets systematically with modern US aircraft.
Iran in comparison has a small troup training opperation and some infantry weapens.
Also please stop saying the 'Iran gets Yemen', that is inaccurate as Iran has absolutly no capabilty to control Yemen. The do support the Huthi who control part of the country but they are their own force and they dont listen to Iranian orders very well. Iran have no chance at all to control the rest.
The Yemen civil war would have grind to a hold long ago if Saudi/UAE would not pump absurd amounts of money, weapens and bombs into it.
It's hard for me to see which side is the biggest monster. Perhaps Iran is the aggressor and Saudi + allies are just fighting back, I don't know.
Note that Israel is a strong part in the anti Iran front, which means Saudi Arabia and Israel are quite friendly today. It is a new era in the Middle East, for better and for worse.
To be fair, the entire planet is a freak show catalogue. A lot of countries seem like being controlled by coke monsters currently (sometimes local, other remote controlled). You see a surprising homogeneity everywhere.
I am not sure what is the point of bringing this up. Obviously they had no choice, since they were at war with Germany. Today the situation is completely different.