Posts Tagged ‘US-Saudi rift’
Posted by seumasach on October 24, 2018
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
22nd October, 2018
It goes without saying that oil has been central to military power and economic life in modern history. Control of oil has been a key source of power and policy in the Cold War. There was even a top-secret US government plan to ravage the Middle East oil industry in the event of the former Soviet Union gaining control of it. The CIA called it the “denial policy”. It was hatched in 1948 during the Berlin Blockade – whereby, oil wells would be plugged, equipment and fuel stockpiles destroyed, refineries and pipelines disabled to ensure that the USSR never got hold of the Middle East’s oil resources.
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Posted in Currency Wars | Tagged: end of dollar as global reserve currency, saudi russia rapprochement, US-Saudi rift | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2017
Zero Hedge
6th October, 2017
Russia no longer even has to lift a finger (or buy a few thousands dollars worth of Facebook ads) to steal influence from the US in key geopolitical hotspots: the US can do so on its own.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: End of empire, Middle East looks east, Russian diplomacy, saudi russia rapprochement, US-Saudi rift | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 3, 2017
RT
2nd October, 2017
A joint Russian-Saudi fund to invest in the energy sector will be announced during the forthcoming visit of the kingdom’s monarch Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to Moscow, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told the Al Arabiya TV Channel.
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Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: Middle East looks east, new middle east, US-Saudi rift | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on October 2, 2017
Andrew Korybko
Oriental Review
September, 30th, 2017
Saudi Arabia arrested between 16-30 people in a broad crackdown across the Kingdom.
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Posted by seumasach on April 24, 2016
M.K.Bhadrakumar
Indian Punchline
22nd April, 2016
President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday has boomeranged. His good intentions were never in doubt – mend fences between the two countries. But what emerges is that it will need much more than one visit – maybe, even one full presidency cannot fulfill such a mission. According to Prince Turki al-Faisal, former Saudi intelligence chief, all the King’s horses and all the King’s men cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again.
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