Yes. You can basically check the international part of the phone number. That has the country code. Or you can check the GPS/GLONASS position of the user. But that is more finicky.
Well, the Middle East being the responsible ones. Now this is a complete shit show. Lol.
Did you see how the Houthis bombed some oil refinery in Saudi Arabia the other day and now announced a 3 day unilateral ceasefire.
They claim they will stop strikes if the Saudis stop bombing Yemen and let them ressuply in the ports.
It remains to be seen if this detente will last though.
*Snap* Nah. The Saudis and other Gulf countries seem to have come to an understanding with Israel. The Sunni and Shia will continue their ninja war with proxy fights as usual.
Arab countries that have opened relationships with Israel are all either monarchies or military dictatorships. There has been no change in public feelings towards Israel in any of them. Arab countries ran by a populist movements like Syria and Iran are still very anti-Israel.
The move towards Israel was engineered by America by Trump via his zionist son in law Jared Kushner. He gave up American political leverage for the benefit of Israel. With Morocco it was America recognising Moroccan claims to Western Sahara. For Saudis it was improving relations after King Salman executed that journalist.
The problem with that is like money American leverage isn't unlimited. The Ukraine situation has caused a massive shift in middle eastern dynamics, even though most people haven't realised it. The fact that America went from threatening war with Iran for 40 years to begging them to sign a nuclear deal in a month says everything.
America doesn't have much leverage left in the Middle East. All they have are the military equipment and their bases. Even the Saudis are now moving away from American technology and moving towards China and Russia.
There is still strong anti-Israeli sentiment in all Arab countries, whatever their government's relationship with Israel is. Even if you're a dictatorship you still need to listen to your people to some degree.
American politicians seem to have very short term memories. There were reasons why they've spent decades trying to move away from middle eastern oil dependency. Now they've suddenly reversed all of that and made themselves more dependent than they've ever been.
The Sunni-Shia rivalry is very old, but the one thing they both agree on is Israel is bad. All Iran needs to do is arrange for some of their proxies to fire a few missiles at Israel to trigger a response. The inevitable Israeli reaction will trigger outrage in all Arab countries just as it always does. The next thing you know all OPEC countries announce a reduction in exports to all western countries who support Israel's actions in Palestine/Syria. Pretty soon America will have choose what is more important to them. Israel or Ukraine/eastern Europe. Just as unreasonable as the west is being vis a vis Ukraine, the Arabs can be with Israel. The west can't "win" on both fronts.
To me the situation seems like a bonfire waiting for a spark to light it, and an embargo is inevitable if the move away from Russia gas becomes permanent.
