“We are many and have a big military, while you in Saudi Arabia have much oil but are militarily weak; let’s do some horse-trading...”
THAT is the fragile deal that substitutes for the gold standard. THAT is the deal by which Saudi accepts only US dollars for oil sales, thereby forcing others, too, to stay with the US dollar.
This means we have to see things their way. This means we substitute as their military. And this means their tentacles and those of many Sand Countries reach into all aspects of our culture, including the University system.
Is she scum? Yes.
But if we had our financial house in order Mizz Witt would not otherwise have been exposed to nearly the same level of anti-US/pro Middle East propoganda that she did.