Wow! The Saudi arrogance is stunning. There are so many ways for Russia to break the Saudis; hacker attacks, financial attacks, bombing, invasion by a proxy state. We live in interesting times.
You know... at some level I’d be good with Russia invading and taking over Saudia Arabia. I’d rather deal with them than arabs.
They aren’t very vulnerable to hacker attacks, frankly this sort of thing is just a niusance.
Financial attacks ditto. The Saudis have huge international investments, very diversified. The Russians couldn’t touch them without, somehow, attacking everyone, including their own private stashes abroad.
Worst they could do, short of nukes, to the Saudis, is fund Iran to make trouble. Or give Iran nukes. But if the Russians are low on funds, this isn’t in the cards.