I’incident went relatively unnoticed in the West. Last Friday, as Ukraine entered its fifth week of conflict, Saudi Arabia was hit hard by a series of 16 missile and drone attacks, targeting civilian infrastructure (power plant, water station and oil facilities) in the south and west of the country. The most impressive targeted a hydrocarbon reservoir in Jeddah, causing a huge fire visible from the Formula 1 circuit where the Saudi Grand Prix tests were taking place at the same time.
Claimed by the Houthis, Yemeni rebels backed by Iran that the kingdom faces in neighboring Yemen in a bloody war that has claimed at least 380,000 lives for seven years, the strikes have…
