The facts
Saudi Arabia's Saudi-led coalition reported on Sunday that it intercepted a Houthi ballistic missile targeting Riyadh, a drone in the Riyadh region, and a cruise missile aimed at Khamis Mushait. The coalition later stated it intercepted 10 ballistic missiles fired toward southern Saudi Arabia. According to the Saudi Civil Defence agency, debris from two destroyed missiles in Khamis Mushait and Ahad Rafidah injured two people and damaged three residential buildings and seven vehicles. These incidents occurred as operations resumed at two terminals of King Khalid International Airport, which had been closed following earlier Houthi attacks. A Houthi military spokesman warned that the airport remained unsafe and a military target. The Houthis also claimed to have targeted three Saudi airports, energy infrastructure, and a pipeline. Saudi authorities reported debris in Mecca and Medina after intercepting two missiles, a claim the Houthis denied.
Our take
What a pathetic, cowardly, and utterly fucking useless performance. The Saudi-led coalition, armed with billions in American-made dick-measuring contest hardware, wants a parade because it intercepted some Houthi missiles built in a cave with a box of scraps. Big fucking deal. You shot down a ballistic missile aimed at your capital, you pricks. That's not a victory lap; that's the bare minimum you should expect from a military that spends more on polishing its jets than some countries spend on food. The real story is that your own fucking intercept debris - the shattered remains of the shit you just blew up - rained down on your own cities, injured your own people, and smashed the fuck out of their homes and cars. You're not defending the kingdom; you're conducting the world's most expensive and lethal littering campaign. You turned southern Saudi Arabia into a demolition derby sponsored by Raytheon, where the prize for surviving a Houthi attack is getting brained by a chunk of your own Patriot missile's handiwork. And while your civil defense agency is sweeping up the smoking garbage that used to be a residential building, you're bragging about reopening the airport terminals you had to close because the Houthis keep using them for target practice. The Houthi spokesman isn't wrong - the place is a fucking unsafe military target because you can't stop a conflict you started and royally botched from spilling onto your own doorstep. You claim debris fell in Mecca and Medina, holy cities you're supposed to protect with your life, and the Houthis just laugh and call you liars. They're firing cruise missiles at your oil infrastructure and you're running around like headless chickens, intercepting just enough to create a new domestic debris hazard. You're not a coalition; you're a clown car of incompetence, a gaggle of rich, entitled bastards who thought war was a video game you could win by buying the most expensive controller. Every intercepted missile is a testament to your failure to end this war, a multi-million dollar firework celebrating your own strategic impotence. The only thing you've successfully defended is your right to look like absolute cunts on the world stage, setting piles of money on fire to get pebbles thrown back at your own house. Fuck your intercepts. Clean up your own mess and stop the war.
