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Saudis to cut diplomatic relations with the USA RE SYRIA
Posted: October 23rd, 2013, 9:57 am
by samizdat
The British press is all over this, as well as a couple of news outlets in the United States. This might be the thing that sends the West into war with Syria...given that we are so addicted to oil.
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It would not surprise me one bit to see us going to war over oil, in order to protect America's most secure oil provider...
Hopefully that does not happen, but al Saud is now playing hardball to see if we are going to blink.
Re: Saudis to cut diplomatic relations with the USA RE SYRIA
Posted: October 23rd, 2013, 10:37 am
by linj2fly
Saudi Arabia: the bully behind the bully.
Re: Saudis to cut diplomatic relations with the USA RE SYRIA
Posted: October 23rd, 2013, 11:37 am
by mes5464
Saudi spymaster says romance dead between US and Saudi Arabia
The head of Saudi intelligence says his country is in the middle of a “major shift” away from the United States, after disagreements over a changing Middle East severely strained relations between the longtime allies.
Reuters reports that Prince Bandar bin Sultan told a group of European diplomats that Saudi Arabia seeks to fundamentally alter its cozy relationship with the United States due to differences over Syria, Egypt and Iran. “The shift away from the U.S. is a major one,” said a source privy to the conversation. “Saudi doesn’t want to find itself any longer in a situation where it is dependent.”
Washington and Riyadh have enjoyed close relations since the kingdom’s founding in 1932, with the Islamic nation providing a secure oil supply in return for the American military’s protection. But the relationship has never been a natural one, and as the Middle East unravels the two nations’ policies continue to diverge.
Re: Saudis to cut diplomatic relations with the USA RE SYRIA
Posted: October 23rd, 2013, 11:55 am
by BroJones
This could become major, even if not hitting the US MSM...
Saudi anger boiled over after Washington refrained from military strikes in response to a poison gas attack in Damascus in August when Assad agreed to give up his chemical weapons arsenal.
Representative Chris Van Hollen, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives' Democratic leadership, told Reuters' Washington Summit on Tuesday that the Saudi moves were intended to pressure Obama to take action in Syria.
'We know their game. They're trying to send a signal that we should all get involved militarily in Syria, and I think that would be a big mistake to get in the middle of the Syrian civil war,' Van Hollen said.
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