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Tim Marshall
Top tip: if you go to Saudi Arabia in the height of summer, take a jacket – the hotels are cold.
we are approaching a time in which there is no way the Americans will fight to defend Saudi Arabia’s solar panels.
In Afghanistan the Taliban had a saying about the foreign forces they took on: ‘You have the watches – we have the time.’
Spaniards have a dark joke about such times: ‘Now the trees chase the dogs’, such is their desperation to be watered.
The word ‘guerrilla’ comes from this conflict, being derived from the word for war – guerra. It began to be used to describe groups of Spanish irregulars who took a fearsome toll on the French.
