The US - SA protection racket has been in place 50+ years.
SA’s production capacity is far greater than actual production reqm’ts so that it can be ramped up / reduced to meet US’ domestic political demands. In return, the US guarantees the Saud family’s throne. And the Al-Sauds have lots and lots of enemies [If you ever wondered why so many 9-11 hijackers were Saudi but our gov gave the Saudi ‘princes’ in the US on 9/11 1st class tix home, no questions asked - that’s one very, very big reason].
That SA now refused bi-sh$t’s demands to increase production, then announced a 2mil barrel/day reduction, then refused bi-sh%t’s demand they delay the reduction, supports the tea leaves reading of SA joining BRICS. Don’t seeing SA firing its gorilla bodyguard unless SA already has a nuke or CCP/Russia/India security guarantees.
SA joining BRICS spells economic Armageddon for the US.
BRICS is outside the US dollar pricing/exchange/payment system. They’ll buy & sell on commodity backed currencies [gold, oil, wheat exchangeable for RF rubles, CCP yuan, India rupee & vice versa]. SA going BRICS would be catastrophic to the US as a world reserve currency because it will eliminate the petro-dollar as the monopoly currency unit for oil. What does that mean to me and you? A 60-70% drop of the dollar exchange value. Today’s $85k BMW will be remembered as a basement bargain, so will $.50 avocados from Mexico. Oh, and all of that foreign purchase of US treasury bills - the primary finance tool of the US gov? It’ll stop, overnight. Not that the fed will stop printing those dollars, though. You think inflation is high now? You’ll wish for 18-20%/yr inflation when the dollar is worth 1/2 or less than now, the fed prints another dozen trillion, and the US gov as the only “customer” for their own bonds.
So, fellow Americans, keep still, do nothing, and simply watch these globalist commies as they go along their merry way without nary a peep from the population. You’ll own nothing. And you actually won’t like it. Not at all.
Have yet to meet a single person [that’s not a CTH or Freeper] who even shows an interest in this subject.
Will never hear any of this in the MSM, that is until its far too late and they need to pin it on PDJT.
I was talking to a young man this past summer. A newcomer to Los Angeles. He had recently graduated from a film school in Florida. He moved to L.A. to pursue acting.
He was brimming with optimism. I explained some of the things you mention. The dollar as a reserve currency, supply chain problems, inflation, how the war in Ukraine affects gas prices, and how that affects all prices.
Although he did not seem stupid, he was astonishingly ignorant. He had never heard of "Weimer Germany," nor many of the other historical references I spoke about.
He shrugged off my pessimism, saying, "Yeah, I guess that's all true. But there have always been problems. But look what an amazing city we live in! Los Angeles is the center of the world! Not like Florida. This place, you can do anything! Achieve your dreams!"
Knew nothing of history or economics, and didn't care to know. He only cared about making it as an actor.
You are absolutely correct in your description of the US/Saudi relationship until the globalist coup in the US. The Saudis are the same, they have been a constant for 300 years. America is now unrecognizable from itself three years ago. The Saudis have witnessed another unprovoked application of massive American military power 5000 miles away from the US. The Saudis know the truth about 9/11 and the American twenty year campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Saudis might be in the dark as much as we are regarding whose in charge in DC but they know the individual politicians. They have owned a majority of the DC denizens since FOREVER. They saw something this spring that crap down the leg terrified them. The total mobilization of a majority of the world’s economic might used in conjunction with a massive NATO military assault to attempt to totally destroy Russia got their attention. Again, unprovoked attempt to destroy Russia. The US doesn’t like the way the Russians treat the Uke ethnic majority in Donbas, Boom, total economic war! The Saudis understand how vulnerable their totally corrupt, totally anti woke monarchy is to American pressure. How fast would the House of Saud’s $1.5T disappear under such an attack? I think they’re so drunk with power in DC that they don’t realize or care what’s going on in the rest of the world.