Posted on 05/06/2024 6:04:57 AM PDT by SJackson
The Biden administration and the Saudis are reportedly cooking up a deal.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Saudis will get nuclear capability, defense guarantees and a terrorist state inside Israel. And what will the United States get? Temporarily lower prices.
The Saudis are not offering to boost oil production to bring down prices as a favor to America, but to Biden. And it’s an election quid-pro-quo that may cost millions of Americans their lives.
After draining the strategic petroleum reserve ahead of the midterms, Biden has been unable to refill it because his environmentalist allies and the Saudis have kept prices high. The Saudis had rejected requests to lower oil prices for anything short of assistance in building their own nuclear program. Shortly before the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, the Saudis had offered to temporarily boost production if it would make it easier to sell Congress on a defense agreement.
Back then the Saudi deal had been portrayed as an extension of the ‘Abraham Accords’ and offered ‘normalization’ of diplomatic ties with Israel. Whether the Saudis were ever serious about normalization is debatable but since Oct 7, any such agreement has been conditioned on an internationally recognized.Islamic terrorist ‘Palestinian’ state affiliated with Saudi Arabia.
The current expectation is that a deal between Biden and the Saudis will drop the Israeli component and focus on a defense agreement and nuclear power in exchange for cheap oil.
Whether Israel is or isn’t on board, a Saudi nuclear agreement is a bad deal for America.
The United States is more than capable of producing its own oil. The only obstacle in the way of American energy independence is Joe Biden and his party who are determined to push ‘green energy’ that only makes us equally dependent on Muslim terror states and Communist China.
Nuclear energy could help solve our energy problems, but the Saudis, who are the world’s largest oil producers, certainly don’t need to go nuclear to fix any energy shortfalls. Nor do they care about the environment. A civilian nuclear energy program makes about as much sense for Saudi Arabia as it does for Iran. And the only reasonable argument for enabling the Saudis to go nuclear would be to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but rather than averting a nuclear attack, that could double the risk and the possible vectors for nuclear armageddon.
The trouble with letting either Iran or the Saudis go nuclear is not just the direct nuclear threat, but the indirect one that will come from Islamic terrorists getting their hands on either nuclear weapons or materials. Saudi Arabia has made some progress under the MBS monarchy, including allowing women greater rights and backing away from some of the terrorist groups and movements that the kingdom has traditionally supported, and even purged some of the old guard who oversaw the Jihadi war against America (this led to Jamal Khashoggi’s death).
But the Saudis have always played multiple angles and there’s still plenty of money going to Islamist groups and terrorist organizations from the kingdom’s wealthy elites. Even if the Saudis were to truly clean up their act (an unlikely scenario since financing terrorism remains one of the most reliable power plays in the region), it will only take MBS being overthrown to change that.
Had the coup advanced by Jamal Khashoggi, Qatar and other regional players succeeded, the same political figures who financed Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups would once again be in control. A nuclear deal cannot be based on reforms implemented by one man and opposed by significant elements in the Saudi power structure. What happens if that one man goes?
Nuclear capability is a threat for generations. It should not be an agreement made lightly.
Biden is proposing to swap nuclear capabilities in exchange for the Saudis providing cheap oil for his election. The Saudis have made it clear that they can’t offer long term price guarantees which means they’d be doing little more than providing a temporary market fix long enough to get a presidential candidate his second term in in office.
After all the talk of impeachable quid-pro-quos, here’s one that could get millions killed.
Nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists is the ultimate nightmare and Biden is risking mass death, the destruction of entire American cities, in exchange for an election day bribe.
By emptying the strategic petroleum reserve to bribe midterm voters, Biden already dangerously endangered our economy and our national security. The cost of his illegal student loan debt bribes is already approaching an estimated $1 trillion and that may just be the beginning.
But there’s a big difference between stealing money to bribe voters and making a deal with an enemy nation that can cost the lives of millions. One is corruption while the other is treason.
The safety and security of the United States of America depends on keeping nuclear materials as far away from terrorists as possible. Biden’s proposed quid-pro-quo deal with Saudi Arabia risks putting nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists for his own political benefit.
That’s not a deal Congress should approve, it’s a deal that Congress could impeach him over.
NOT THE BEE
Media this morning reporting voting coming up.. Percentage, Biden close to Trump
Anyone voting for a dementia patient for president, should be tested or do not vote.
Do that many who live here, in the United States have no care for my country!
“Nuclear capability is a threat for generations.”
Uhhh, Nukes require maintenance. FACT.
I’m personally unsure about length of shelf life.
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Bribery’s part of the Arab business culture.
It’s one of the reasons they resent American politicians pretending they’re receiving $500,000 for a 40 minutes ‘speech’ when in fact it’s a bribe - and to add insult to injury Arab hosts have to hire people to sit in a room to ‘hear the speech’.
My point: Arabs understand dirty Americans like Biden... and sellouts like the people who run our Universities... the last question is did they also ‘buy’ our intelligence services and offer up dead Jews as a bonus part of the deal?
Lock Biden up if this report is true!
Its my understanding that the Saudis funded the Pakistani nuke program from the start. They can get their hands on a half dozen functional weapons any time they want.
They have no need to start a program from scratch. They just need to pick up the phone and place an order.
Since Barry and Valerie have heretofore leaned heavily in favor of Iran (Shia) it doesn’t make a lot of sense that they’d hand nukes to the Sunnis in Saudi.
I usually put a lot of credence in what Daniel reports, but this time.........
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I am not going to belive one word of this without indepentent confirmation.
Well, if this wasn’t all confusing before this rambling article has certainly made it so.
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Brandon is trying to get us all killed.
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The biggest disinformation about the posted report is the title. It’s as if the Saudis were either terrorists or would let terrorists have nukes the Saudis might later develop after they get nuclear technology from the U.S. Yet where is the support for that characteization?
While this kind of deal - the Saudis getting U.S. help with nuclear technology - has appealed to the Biden admin, it is not a wholley new idea from the American side in general. It was constantly a wait and see issue, depending on the ability to restrain the nuclear ambitions of the Mullahs in Tehran. The diplomatic ability for that seems at this time to have run its couse without success and is presented with current thinking the Mullahs are closer than ever with their nuclear ambitions and may be about the announce it is a fait a compli - they have working nuke arms. In spite of the Biden admini’s childish hopes to persuade the Mullahs in Tehran to drop their nuclear ambitions, my view is their own recognition of the failure of that, more than anything else, is what has led to the increased pursuit of a nuclear technology deal with the Saudis.
There is even more to it than that. Literally no one needs US help to develop nuclear bombs.
There is a good analysis online. The question was this:
If the Soviets had not gotten spies to provide them information on the Manhattan Project or the design of bombs used on Japan, how long would it have taken them to develop their own.
Answer: They would have had one sooner. They had fine physicists and plenty of material — and they had their own design that they were sure was superior. But their supervision wanted them to use the US design as lower risk to the expense. Already tested. So they built to that design and did their explosion in 1949.
About a year or so later they exploded their own design, with far higher yield and better efficiency compared to the US design.
There is WAY too much presumption the US has superior tech in more or less everything. It’s just not so.
“There is WAY too much presumption the US has superior tech in more or less everything. “
I do not think that “superior” technology is the cause of the Saudi desire for the deal. They do not want to change strategic partners vis-a-vis their regional conflicts with Mullahs in Tehran, and they do not trust Russia to be on their side in that regard (Russsia has too much of an alliance with the Mullahs in Tehran on mulitple fronts), and going with Russian tehnology as opposed to U.S. technology just does not seem like a strategically good deal to them.
Well, Saudi Arabia is the center of Sunni Islam and of course Iran is the center of Shiite Islam.
The two factions have hated each other forever. It has nothing to do with current ideologies nor Israel.
The Saudis can buy any tech they don’t create themselves, from whoever will sell it, which is pretty much anyone if the price is high enough. They have zero incentive to align with the US, who after all sought to pin the Khassoggi murder on MBS. Doesn’t matter if it was true. It’s a betrayal of the relationship as it existed at that moment.
And because that pointed at MBS, that betrayal was a personal one.
Now, the Saudis certainly want Assad gone from Syria and the Russians say no. The most crushing reality in the view of the Saudis is the US did not get rid of Assad. They claimed that was a huge goal and they failed. The Saudis see this. There is no value in aligning with the US.
Hamas is Sunni, btw. It ain’t Iranian money propping them up.
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