Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have a mutual defense pact, and given how intent Iran is to attack every country around it - Even the ones that are tangentially allied with them - it wouldn't be much of a surprise if one of the IRGC commanders decides to start targeting desalinization plants.

So far Saudi Arabia hasn't felt threatened enough to call on Pakistan for aid. But, since these desalinization plants account for 70% of the water that SA uses? Iran being stupid enough to bomb them would be severe enough for SA to request Pakistans support.

And since Pakistan is both a nuclear power, and rejects No-First Use policy, well... An existential threat to their ally would obligate nuclear retaliation should SA request their aid.

Once that nuclear line is crossed though Trump would promptly send off some of our own just to brag about how bigly our nukes are compared to the Pakistanis.

Bloodsport

When sports was more just sports, I liked it.

But over the years it changed, and I gave up
wathcing it.

As of January 27th of 2026 it stood at 89 seconds to midnight.

About a microsecond on the BAS clock.

He's raving mad. He'll need some adult in the Praetorian Guard to deal appropriately with "The Greatest Man in the World"

By James Thurber.

https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Thurber_Greatest_Man.pdf

Charles K. L. Brand, secretary to the Mayor of New York City, happened to be standing nearest Smurch ... Brand, a tall, powerfully built man, once a tackle at Rutgers, stepped forward, seized the greatest man in the world by his left shoulder and the seat of his pants, and pushed him out the window.

"My God, he's fallen out the window!" cried a quick-witted editor.

I've always liked Thurber.. I taught
The Night the Ghost Got In.

Anyhow, one of my family names is
in the story you posted.

I also think VD Jance fits thst story.

Great fun. Smurch!

a nuclear detonation would qualify that to be taken down.