I smell Gog and Magog coming down the road!!! Russia and her Persian pals are going to be in bad shape. Then to get out of that hole they are going to attack Israel for those oil and gas reserves.
Why attack Israel when you can jump over them and bomb out the KSA instead?
Seriously, why would you try to take out Israel when you know Israel can retaliate with nukes in a way the KSA cannot?
The Iranians will happily occupy KSA. All Russia has to do is keep the KSA from pumping oil and the price will go back up. The KSA, and not fracking, is causing the plunge in oil.
The KSA has $800B in cash reserves. They can pump day and night to wipe out the economies of their enemies. THAT’s what is significant about that graphic. NONE of the KSA’s allies are impacted by this tactic of theirs.
The ONLY thing fracking does for the market, and the US, is POTENTIALLY sets up the US as someone big enough, and with enough reserves, to participate in making the market in the same way the KSA does.
The press is selling this business about FRACKING being the cause for the plunge. The KSA, all by itself, is doing this, and will keep doing this for as long as it takes to topple Putin and the retards in Iran and Syria.
Putin’s decision now is whether to escalate against the KSA, and bomb them out (they’ll save Mecca), or let the KSA bleed the Russians out.
The question on everyone’s mind - what about the 4th Armored in the KSA? Can you bomb them out without killing any US soldiers? Are we quietly putting US forces in strategic locations in the KSA as sort of ‘human shields’? What would Obola do if the Russians decide on a massive, but LIMITED, campaign against the KSA? How about the EU? If the Russians get those capital reserves, and the oil, they could wait out the EU in terms of not buying oil from the Russian alliance, but not for very long.
Eventually, the world would settle in on the Russians making the market for oil, not the KSA. They’d tell the US, “Look at the money you are going to save in not having to protect those Saudi supply lines for the Europeans! We’ll happily do that ourselves!!”
The Russians have to hit the KSA. When is the question.