{"id":24304,"date":"2017-06-29T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24304"},"modified":"2017-06-29T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:26:05","slug":"saudi-arabias-march-towards-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24304","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia\u2019s March Towards Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav id=\"flash-breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumb-trail breadcrumbs\">\n<div class=\"tg-container\">\n<h3 class=\"trail-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/2017\/06\/saudi-arabias-march-towards-civil-war\/\">Saudi Arabia\u2019s March Towards Civil War<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div class=\"tg-container\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-3891\" class=\"post-3891 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-global-chess category-middle-east tag-civil-war tag-egypt tag-iran tag-isis tag-muhammad-bin-nayef tag-qatar tag-salman-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud tag-saudi-arabia tag-terrorism tag-turkey\">\n<div class=\"entry-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/arabia-saudita-pregatita-sa-trimita-trupe-in-siria-pentru-operatiuni-antiteroriste-18549.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1172px) 100vw, 1172px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/arabia-saudita-pregatita-sa-trimita-trupe-in-siria-pentru-operatiuni-antiteroriste-18549.jpg 1172w, http:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/arabia-saudita-pregatita-sa-trimita-trupe-in-siria-pentru-operatiuni-antiteroriste-18549-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/arabia-saudita-pregatita-sa-trimita-trupe-in-siria-pentru-operatiuni-antiteroriste-18549-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/disobedientmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/arabia-saudita-pregatita-sa-trimita-trupe-in-siria-pentru-operatiuni-antiteroriste-18549-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1172\" height=\"659\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content-block\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Has Saudi Arabia\u2019s brinkmanship and heavy-handed policies of intervention in the Middle East come back to haunt the desert kingdom?<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>After decades of playing the role of middle man between foreign states and establishing itself as a regional power, Saudi Arabia\u2019s policies of meddling in the affairs of neighbor states and support for terror appear to have finally exacerbated issues in the country which could threaten to plunge it into chaos. Growing anger over attempted austerity cutbacks, economic issues due to the fluctuating price of oil and tell tale signs of royal disagreement over the successor to King\u00a0Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud mean that Saudi adventures abroad are preparing a perfect storm for civil conflict which could lead to further instability in the Middle East. The disruption comes as other states such as Iran and Turkey are positioning themselves as potential competitors to the de facto leader of the Arab world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. Saudi Arabia Is Experiencing Increasing Signs Of Instability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has experienced a number of issues which contribute to internal destabilization. In April 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/yEdli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> reported that King Salman was forced to restore bonuses and allowances for state employees, reversing attempts to reform Saudi Arabia\u2019s generous austerity programs. The Saudi government insisted that the move was due to \u201chigher than expected revenue\u201d despite the fact that observers were noting in March that Saudi Arabia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/lvarM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foreign reserves were plunging<\/a>\u00a0as one third of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) of United Arab Emirates,\u00a0Bahrain,\u00a0Saudi Arabia,\u00a0Oman,\u00a0Qatar\u00a0and\u00a0Kuwait have seen their credit ratings slashed and have increasingly disagreed on common foreign policy towards Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s March Towards Civil War Has Saudi Arabia\u2019s brinkmanship and heavy-handed policies of intervention in the Middle East come back to haunt the desert kingdom? After decades of playing the role of middle man between foreign states and establishing itself as a regional power, Saudi Arabia\u2019s policies of meddling in the affairs of neighbor [&hellip;]<\/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":[920,15091,522,701,15465],"class_list":["post-24304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-civil-war","tag-disobedient-media","tag-middle-east","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-william-craddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304","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=24304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24305,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24304\/revisions\/24305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}