"We need to shift this reliance on Saudi Arabian oil to Russian, a major exporter of oil. Then we can sit back and watch the Saudis return to being camel traders. " Russian oil should be a non-starter because now we would be dependent on them. Makes you also wonder why Alaska, etc and alternative renewables are not been already in place. Seems like some conbination of oil interests and Israeli interests don't want us to abandon interest in the Middle East.
The Israelis would love for all the oil under Arab land to disappear or become less valuable. It's the presence of that oil that makes our foreign policy dither between Israel and the so-called moderate Arab states.