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Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria
The Telegraph ^ | 26 Aug 2013 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Posted on 08/26/2013 9:30:18 PM PDT by CMB_polarization

Saudi Arabia has secretly offered Russian a sweeping deal to control the global oil market and safeguard Russia’s gas contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in Syria.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; gaddafysgold; genocide; iran; lebanon; randsconcerntrolls; russia; saudi; secretoildeal; syria; threatmatrix; turkey; unitestates
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1 posted on 08/26/2013 9:30:18 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: CMB_polarization

They are offering to bribe them with even more artificially inflated oil prices -— for us, I can only presume.


2 posted on 08/26/2013 9:34:49 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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If the US is going to become a net energy exporter, then high oil prices will be good for us too.


3 posted on 08/26/2013 9:42:00 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: CMB_polarization

Boy things are really complicated over there. TG we’ve got such a strong and wond....

Sorry I can’t say it. Even a sarcasm tag would not make it right.


4 posted on 08/26/2013 9:43:45 PM PDT by lafroste
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To: JohnBrowdie

This is not a good development. Saudis, Russia, and China will all be allies if this happens. Bad on m any levels for the U.S.


5 posted on 08/26/2013 9:43:45 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: CMB_polarization
Russia could drive a pretty hard bargain.

Or they could tell Assad and he would probably launch all those missiles intended for Israel at Saudi Arabia.

Russia is definitely interested in controlling more of the oil market, and I have suspected for quite a while they would like SA to be a legitimate target for a big strike on their oilfields.

Logically, the Russians should blow 'em up, as they are completely untrustworthy any other way but dead.

6 posted on 08/26/2013 9:45:36 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: CMB_polarization

How do you say “Nuts!” in Russian?


7 posted on 08/26/2013 9:45:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” he [Prince Bandar] allegedly said.
8 posted on 08/26/2013 9:47:30 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: CMB_polarization

Sounds like a threat to me.


9 posted on 08/26/2013 9:48:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CMB_polarization
"Mr Skrebowski said trouble is brewing in a string of key supply states. “Libya is reverting to war lordism. Nigerian is drifting into a bandit state with steady loss of output. And Iraq is going back to the sort of Sunni-Shia civil war we saw in 2006-2007,” he said.

The Putin-Bandar meeting was stormy, replete with warnings of a “dramatic turn” in Syria. Mr Putin was unmoved by the Saudi offer, though western pressure has escalated since then. “Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters,” he said, referring to footage showing a Jihadist rebel eating the heart and liver of a Syrian soldier.

Prince Bandar in turn warned that there can be “no escape from the military option” if Russia declines the olive branch. Events are unfolding exactly as he foretold.

10 posted on 08/26/2013 9:49:35 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: CMB_polarization

Take it, then take out the royal family.

Russia has a little experience with that.


11 posted on 08/26/2013 9:52:29 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.")
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Russia has a little experience with that.

"Come downstairs, we want to take a picture of the whole family."

12 posted on 08/26/2013 9:54:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jsanders2001

“This is not a good development. Saudis, Russia, and China will all be allies if this happens. Bad on m any levels for the U.S.”

hey, at least we got israel


13 posted on 08/26/2013 9:54:45 PM PDT by willywill
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To: willywill

Elections have consequences.


14 posted on 08/26/2013 9:55:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CMB_polarization

They know Obama is weak, and cannot handle the situation.


15 posted on 08/26/2013 9:57:01 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

“If the US is going to become a net energy exporter, then high oil prices will be good for us too.”

What do you mean by “us”? lol


16 posted on 08/26/2013 9:57:38 PM PDT by sagar
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To: CMB_polarization
I'd take this reported conversation with a grain of salt, as I remember what the Russians did in Lebanon when similarly threatened by kidnappers, and what they did to the Chechens after Belsan. Bandar would be suicidal to speak that way.
17 posted on 08/26/2013 9:59:28 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” he [Prince Bandar] allegedly said.

"Go ahead Prince, Make My Day!"

18 posted on 08/26/2013 10:00:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jsanders2001

Don’t worry about it.

The Iranians are deeply in debt to Russia, and Russia must have a route to a Mediterranean seaport for their natural gas and petroleum shipments.

The Saudis are concerned with the increased influence of Shiites throughout the area north of Iraq and extending into Lebanon. These two can probably work out a working deal where both profit.

As for Russia and China — the Middle East is known to historians as the “graveyard of empires”.

If we extricate ourselves without sustaining destruction we can count ourselves as lucky.


19 posted on 08/26/2013 10:03:14 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OFCITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: ltc8k6

Bingo. ‘Nuff said.


20 posted on 08/26/2013 10:04:01 PM PDT by Fungi
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