- Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:36 pm
#557103
I am not sure that either rules or getting caught are at play here. The Khassoggi and Skripal has similar aspects to them insofar as both were brazen and both were committed full in the knowledge that the CCTV alone would be enough to hang them out to dry. The either don't give a fuck or are sending a message. Possibly the later.
KSA has one weapon and one alone. The price of oil. They are have enough reserves to withstand a chill and Iran is back out of the general market. So who benefits if the spigots are turned off? Russia. Now would be the the best possible time for KSA to exert a little pressure and to remind the US that they still hold sway, even though that Damoclean sword is becoming blunter with every passing year
I stress that I am not channelling Alex Jones. I am simply trying to work out cui bono in all this. Are the Saudis trying to give themselves some headroom with the threat that they could refloat Russia within weeks, just as the US seems to be hell-bent on another cripplingly expensive arms race?
Really. I am as clue less as the next man. Probably more so.
KSA has one weapon and one alone. The price of oil. They are have enough reserves to withstand a chill and Iran is back out of the general market. So who benefits if the spigots are turned off? Russia. Now would be the the best possible time for KSA to exert a little pressure and to remind the US that they still hold sway, even though that Damoclean sword is becoming blunter with every passing year
I stress that I am not channelling Alex Jones. I am simply trying to work out cui bono in all this. Are the Saudis trying to give themselves some headroom with the threat that they could refloat Russia within weeks, just as the US seems to be hell-bent on another cripplingly expensive arms race?
Really. I am as clue less as the next man. Probably more so.
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