[Newsbot]

Title: Why Saudi Arabia is kicking back against the USA
Category: World
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-06-05 14:52:58

[andyt]

$1:

The secret deal was sealed during the final months of the second world war, when Franklin Roosevelt met King Abdul Aziz, founder of modern Saudi Arabia, aboard a heavily armed US cruiser in the Suez Canal. The two leaders shook hands on the principles that, against all expectations, held right up through 9/11, and even to the Arab Spring: the Saudis would provide unlimited cheap oil to the US and its allies; and America would bring them fully under its ‘security umbrella’, offering whatever it took to keep Aramco in business and the House of Saud in power.

Really? Tell that to an American (and Western) economy that's never been the same after the first OPEC oil shock in the early 70's. Cheap oil my ass.

[Thanos]

Embargo their oil, cut off all their weapon supplies, and let the goddamn Iranians eat the lousy fuckers alive.

[bootlegga]

Thanos Thanos:

Embargo their oil, cut off all their weapon supplies, and let the goddamn Iranians eat the lousy fuckers alive.

A good idea in theory, but they'll just go to the Chinese or even worse, the Russians for their security.

While North America doesn't rely on Saudi oil very much, many of our allies do and such a move could be even more destabilizing than dealing with the nutjobs in Riyadh.

If you think the oil industry is screwed now, imagine how bad it might be if Russia and Saudi Arabia colluded with each to control the market.