{"id":15305,"date":"2015-12-16T06:47:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15305"},"modified":"2015-12-16T06:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:47:40","slug":"saudi-royal-family-announces-its-new-global-sunni-military-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15305","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n
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(NOTE: Some news-media have made clear to me flat-out that they won\u2019t publish anything that criticizes the Saudi royal family, especially not as being what they really are, but I have included those media on my distribution-list anyway, as I always do. I send everything I do to all of them, regardless of whether or not they will consider publishing my reports.)<\/span><\/p>\n

An official announcement from the world\u2019s leading, and most fundamentalistic, Sunni Islamic nation, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday December 15th, has introduced a Sunni-Islamic counterpart to NATO, and it includes one NATO member, Turkey, which is already at war against NATO\u2019s enemy Russia, and against Russia\u2019s ally the non-sectarian, secular Shiite, Bashar al-Assad, who runs Syria. The Sauds\u2019\u00a0\u201cJoint Statement on Formation of Islamic Military Alliance\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has been signed by 34 Sunni-led nations, with \u201cmore than ten other Islamic countries\u201d that \u201chave expressed their support for this \u2026 alliance and will take the necessary measures\u201d to join, \u201cincluding Indonesia\u201d (the highest-population Islamic-majority nation). All of those \u201cIslamic countries\u201d are specifically Sunni-led,\u00a0not<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Shiite-led.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two top importers of U.S. weapons are #1 Saudi Arabia, and #2 Turkey.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Both are Sunni, and no Shiite nation is even on the list. The new, 34-nation-plus military alliance could cause U.S. military producers to soar. And the figures shown there for Saudi Arabia grossly understate the reality. For example, on 13 September 2010, Britain\u2019s\u00a0Telegraph<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>bannered\u00a0\u201cUS secures record $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and other lesser arms bonanzas to the U.S. from the Sauds came in the years after, so that a figure of only \u201c$1,199,000,000\u201d for the year 2014 (given in the first of those two links) is no fair indication of the reality, which is that the Saud family dwarfs any other buyer of U.S. armaments. And, U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media\u00a0refuse to allow their reporters to cover the ugly reality of how those weapons are being used \u2014 and they fire any who publicly object<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire (NOTE: Some news-media have made clear to me flat-out that they won\u2019t publish anything that criticizes the Saudi royal family, especially not as being what they really are, but I have included those media on my distribution-list anyway, as I always do. I send everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,4394,2559,553,694,701,1634,11053,776,818,5510],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-islam","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shiite","tag-sunni-empire","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15307,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions\/15307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}