[headstamp 2]

The Saudis see the writing on the wall with Iran and Captain Midnight.

[McGruff]

The Saudi atomic and renewable energy body has already signed nuclear cooperation deals with countries able to build reactors, including the United States, France, Russia, South Korea, China and Argentina.

That's alot of reactors for a country swimming in oil. Hmm.

[oldbrowser]

"There will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine,"---Obama

Russia having to do business with all of our former allies must be part of the "costs" to which Obama's threat was referring.

[lbryce]

So Russia can’t lose. They’ve given Iran, Saudi Arabia’s historic adversary the ability to build a nuclear plant to create weapons and now they’re working with the Saudis along the same lines.

[gaijin]

The USA went off of the gold standard but needed some scarce commodity to safeguard the future faith I the US dollar:

the US would provide Saudi Arabia with security while Saudi Arabia would refuse to use anything except the US dollar for selling its oil - this new Petrodollar deal worked great.

Now that the Saudis are demonstrating they trust us so little, what is going to happen to the dollar..?

This nuclear news is extremely important and super super bad.

[Paine in the Neck]

Barry’s doing for international nuke sales what he has done for domestic firearms sales.

[caww]

I'm not at all surprised...Putin is a businessman first....you cut the man off as the US/EU did he hits the ground running...he's been doing exactly as we said he'd do....

Obamas message to Americans...

[taildragger]

Put aside the political reasons ( this is a shiv in the back to US relations and statement IMHO ) and does it make sense to export the fuel that these plants would replace the consumption of for electrical generation. Leave off the table what else it can lead too, as we all will be reaching for the Mylanta and ask....

Could these be Westinghouse, Babcox and Wilcox, or GE Hitachi Reactors with US engineering, some manufacturing, and or profits. How does Russian Reactors compare to our turnkey designs in terms of safety? My guess not good... How and why are we not Competitive here? Where is the Dept of Commerce? Never-mind Muslim outreach for NASA where is it here? All in favor of closing the Dept of Commerce say Aye...

[Mariner]

This is a geopolitical earthquake.

And it's 100% Obama's fault.

The USA has no more allies in the Middle East.

The BIG players, Egypt and the Saudis are doing arms deals with the Russians, and the Saudi's hooking up on nuke development.

Yep, an earthquake.

And a major shift in world power.

Next we'll see a Chinese naval base in Venezuela. Airfields in Nicaragua.