Ultimately, this either has to be settled by a nuclear attack on Mecca, or a future America with balls to stop calling the Saudis “allies” and having US forces invade and take Mecca by force. Also Islam should be illegal in the USA.
Islam has to be eradicated under an occupation government. Same as denazifying Germany.
Right now OPEC is doing almost as much damage to the Middle East as a nuke would. Gas at the current price is hurting our frackers and traditional producers...but it’s killing OPEC nations. Russia too.
I think Trump should consider an old idea...a minimum price per barrel for US oil. For instance, a federal tax on US produced oil under $45/bbl to bring it up to that price.
There are at least 2 of us who think this.
Russia and the USA each have 6,000-plus nukes. With 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world, we could each use 1,000 of our nukes at an average of 40 nukes per country and still have plenty left. Islam could in one day drop from the #2 religion in the world (behind Christianity) to a mere footnote smaller than Jainism. I’m not recommending this, of course, but we wouldn’t need to take our shoes off to board a plane any more.