[pepsionice]

Let’s say ISIS moves into Saudi Arabia and it become unstable (just one scenario of a thousand). This would take Saudi Arabia out of production for a year and the President would have to pretend that he now cares and wants 50,000 Marines to land and retake Saudi Arabia. Putin would be standing and laughing about how this turned out.

True, oil prices would run back up to $100 to $150 a barrel....Russia would be back making a profit on oil, and the oil sands guys in Canada would normally be making a ton of money but that silly new Canadian President screwed them out of their chance.

[berdie]

“the president would have to pretend that he now cares”

The Won won’t be president forever.

[PoloSec]

More proof you don’t have to be a prophet to see the future it is evident to those who recognize the past and have awareness of the present, I think you are exactly correct in your summation.

I don’t see obama doing anything to prevent it, in fact he is encouraging it, and I think he plans on it happening while he is still in office, he is after all the supreme imam/caliph of the islamic world bent on fulfilling his destiny, and there is not anybody anywhere willing to stop him as long as he holds the reigns.

[silverleaf]

Saudi instability is more likely to come from the internal rot of its inbred royal dynasty plus the millions of Shia both in Saudi Arabia and surrounding it in Iran and Yemen, than from ISIS extremists

Given the leverage Russia is building with the Iranians, and the admiration he is gaining from the Arabs for his Syrian campaign being strong pragmatic and decisive against extremism, I can see a future where Saudis out of pragmatism also approach Putin for assistance with its internal stability rather than the US , which has now hopelessly bungled and squandered our image throughout the region from the Levant and the Maghreb to Afghanistan

Frankly Russia as an Asian power is a lot closer to the middle east and SWA than are we

Once this Chinese- Russian mega alliance “ New Silk Road” project continues to unfold, all the peripheral countries of the Middle East are going to want to connect with it
- just my prediction

[Jim Noble]

retake Saudi Arabia

"Saudi" Arabia should have been conquered and reorganized (along with Pakistan) right after 9/11.

Now, we are incomparably weaker, and the fate of the al-Saud family is in the hands of others.

Your idea that we would spend blood putting this evil bunch of gangsters back on the throne after nature takes its course is...interesting.