I think Saudi’s real beef , which Syria is a part of via Irans support, is they are scared crapless Iran will get their wish and take over as the head honchos of the Middle East.
The Iranians and Saudi’s continue to use their brands of Islam to control the mindset of the people when in reality it’s all about the oil revenues and the power that that revenue welds in retaining the leadership they both covet in the Middle East.
They know, with the way the world governance is moving, that the Muslim Leadership will have a seat at the table of the World Governance....Iran and Saudi Leadership are in a power struggle to attain that.
Iran has Russia backing, as we know, Saudi had ours until we yielded to Osama’s gripe and moved a large part of our military off Saudi land sometime back. There was a definate “shift” at that time.
So without US backing they really have nothing more than their “terrorist” thugs....they will not send their own military to fight. Saudi has always used the underlings of their nation and others like the Palestinians to fight their fights...all in the name of their Allah...which moves the people to do so. They have limited military and have to depend as well on the Emerits etc. So they have to have backing or they are helpless.
The thing is, neither one can be allowed to succeed. A major surprise is in the works. Two prongs. iran and the saudis will both pay dearly.