Posted on 10/09/2015 11:40:16 AM PDT by Trumpinator
Never mind picture slow to load.
as much as i hate saudi arabia, with their depictions in school books of jews as rats, it would be worse for Russia to control their oil.
China is the new “big hog at the trough” of the mideast oil.
That friendly country with mafia business practices and 1.4 billion expendable people to enforce them.
This is all about oil and Obama’s Sunni take over of the Middle East. The Saudis wanted a pipeline through Syria to supply Europe therefore cutting off Russian exports through the Ukraine supplying them. Russia wants the Euroes depending on them for gas especially. They use gas for their cars and trucks and home heating.
I admit Putin is running a fine line here because his oil prices are real low now which kills his government hand outs plus he’s trying to start exterior wars that cost money and lots of it.
How does it compare to the dominant vehicle of the Middle East?
Here is a long term torture test.
Killing a Toyota - Top Gear - BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=485&v=xnWKz7Cthkk
If the Chinese think that piece of crap will sustain an IED they are delusional, but then again with about 100 million extra males in their population that may not matter. Maybe that 1 child policy was the plan from the beginning?
Looks like a “soft side” vehicle to me.
But as you say, for the ChiComs that’s not much of a problem.
My view is the next decade won’t be pleasant for the mideast oil vendors.
Nor millennials that are clueless
Very nice!
But not many water holes in that neck of the woods.
A shore? A coastline?
Important news, but what shore?
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