There is also some discussion of oil economics/politics.
Reposting from the same sorta thread from last night:
I hope I live to see the day the spoiled princes and kings of Saudi Arabia and tore from their palaces by the very terrorists that funded them and are dragged into the city square in Riyadh and given a complementary neck-ectomy by the very radicals they have enabled for so many years.
It would make a great cautionary tale for any other regime out there thinking about funding Islamic ideology around the world.
not sure about the link, so:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/the_end_of_saudi_arabia.html
Give it back to the Hashemites and have Abdullah stamp out Wahabbism.
I’m sure Jordan wouldn’t mind being part of a new Arabia.
As was the case in other parts of the region the civilized world should be careful of what it wished for.I,for one,can easily imagine a worse regime ruling Saudi Arabia than the current crowd.
” An absolute monarchy.”
A monarchy that cowards to the religious fanatics ...
I’ve said for a long time that it will be a good day when these guys are picking figs and herding goats again because they find they can’t make samiches outa crude.
The Economist had similar write-up recently, suggesting the end of the Sauds, and the new 30-year old prince selling off of ARAMCO.
If you don’t like Saudi Arabia you can sell everything you own and move to Oman, the Emirates, etc.