{"id":27751,"date":"2017-11-08T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27751"},"modified":"2017-11-08T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:12:55","slug":"how-broke-is-the-house-of-saud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27751","title":{"rendered":"How Broke is the House of Saud?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nSalvador Dal\u00ed The oecumenial council <\/b>1960<\/center>Trying to figure out what on earth is happening in the Middle East appears to have gotten a lot harder. Perhaps (because) it\u2019s become more dangerous too. There are so many players, and connections between players, involved now that even making one of those schematic representations would never get it right. Too many unknown unknowns.<\/p>\n

A short and incomplete list of the actors: Sunni, Shiite, Saudi Arabia, US, Russia, Turkey, ISIS, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Kurds, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Hamas, Qatar, Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Houthis, perhaps even Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. I know I know, add your favorites. So what have we got, or what do we know we\u2019ve got? We seem to have the US lining up with Israel, the UAE and Saudi Arabia against Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah. Broadly. But that\u2019s just a -pun intended- crude start.<\/p>\n

Putin has been getting closer to the Saudis because of the OPEC production cuts, trying to jack up the price of oil. Which ironically has now been achieved on the heels of the arrests of 11 princes and scores of other wealthy and powerful in the kingdom. But Putin also recently signed a $30 billion oil -infrastructure- deal with Iran. And he\u2019s been cuddling up to Israel as well.<\/p>\n

In fact, Putin may well be the most powerful force in the Middle East today. Well played?! He prevented the demise of Assad in Syria, which however you look at it at least saved the country from becoming another Iraq and Libya style failed state. If there\u2019s one thing you can say about the Middle East\/North Africa it\u2019s that the US succeeded in creating chaos there to such an extent that it has zero control left over any of it. Well played?!<\/p>\n

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How Broke is the House of Saud? Salvador Dal\u00ed The oecumenial council 1960Trying to figure out what on earth is happening in the Middle East appears to have gotten a lot harder. Perhaps (because) it\u2019s become more dangerous too. There are so many players, and connections between players, involved now that even making one of […]<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[1769,1049,16927,3042,7925,588,16928,13924,694,4740,5177,3217,834,862],"class_list":["post-27751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-corruption","tag-israel","tag-kushner","tag-lebanon","tag-mbs","tag-oil","tag-puppet","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-russia","tag-saudi","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-uae","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27751","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=27751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27752,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27751\/revisions\/27752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}