So the obvious question is why have we played ball with them for 85 years? Oil is the obvious answer, and certainly a piece of the puzzle, but what other incentives are there that statesmen know about and the average public don’t?https://twitter.com/thewargarurumon/status/1027561920017182721 …
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er, well, least bad? none of it is good.
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Definitely agree that I’m more worried about Saudi fanaticism turning nuclear. Part of it for me is that their state bureaucracy is so nebulous, dense, and wealthy it seems like a rogue prince could possibly acquire/deploy a nuke without the Crown’s approval
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Basing that on the fact that lower princes fund literal terror groups and wahhabi/salafist groups with seemingly little repercussions or recourse from the crown. May just be plausible deniability for them though which is even scarier
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