{"id":27757,"date":"2017-11-08T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27757"},"modified":"2017-11-08T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:31:07","slug":"the-u-s-and-saudi-arabia-are-about-to-make-more-disastrous-and-idiotic-mistakes-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27757","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are About to Make More Disastrous and Idiotic Mistakes \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are About to Make More Disastrous and Idiotic Mistakes \u2013 Part 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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In Part 1<\/a><\/strong> of this series, I detailed the recent aggressive power plays initiated by 30-something Saudi princeling Mohamed bin Salman (MBS), who is effectively the absolute leader of Saudi Arabia at this time. I also highlighted how 30-something U.S. princeling Jared Kushner, son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, may have been involved in MBS\u2019s scheming during an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia a little over a week before the purge hammer dropped. Today\u2019s post will focus on what I think this means for the future of the Middle East, as well as U.S. imperial ambitions.<\/p>\n

Before I get started, I want to make something clear. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m Nostradamus or anything. These posts are based on the assumption that certain realities remain in place in the months and years ahead. The first is that Mohamed bin Salman\u2019s attempt to consolidate power will prove successful, at least long enough for him to make more extremely stupid mistakes. The second assumption is that Donald Trump will continue to foolishly give this princeling a blank check when it comes to whatever insane aggressions he pursues within the region.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s perfectly clear that MBS views recent setbacks in Syria, where Saudi ISIS forces were routed by Russia and Assad, as unacceptable. As such, he\u2019s looking for another place to fight a proxy war with Iran. Never mind the fact that his war in Yemen has been a total failure and humanitarian disaster, MBS doesn\u2019t appear to be someone who lets one failure get in way of future failures. He appears to have chosen Lebanon as the place for his next chaotic adventure.<\/p>\n

In that regard, I found a post published at Moon of Alabama<\/em><\/a> extremely informative. Here\u2019s an excerpt from that piece:<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are About to Make More Disastrous and Idiotic Mistakes \u2013 Part 2 In Part 1 of this series, I detailed the recent aggressive power plays initiated by 30-something Saudi princeling Mohamed bin Salman (MBS), who is effectively the absolute leader of Saudi Arabia at this time. I also highlighted how […]<\/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":[7844,441,16915,522,16914,694,701,776,827,901],"class_list":["post-27757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-jared-kushner","tag-middle-east","tag-mohamed-bin-salman","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757","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=27757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27758,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27757\/revisions\/27758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}