Lockheed, Boeing: the blood of the enemies of the Saudis (that's us) is now on YOUR hands too.https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/871385176663830531 …
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Maybe the misplaced sanctimony over two arms manufacturers being arms manufacturers or total ignorance of US-Saudi relations for decades.
It's not sanctimony, bucko & I understand US-Saudi relations well enough to know what's at the bottom: Stable oil. Which we no longer need.
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We... Don't need stable oil? What can we use instead? Yeah I guess electricity can work as a replacement.
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He's probably referring to fracking. Gas is now ~ 1/3 of US electricity.
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Right at this moment? Or when we've convinced our policy makers, many of whom are influenced by their money we don't need them? Get real.
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If you think of oil as JUST fuel for cars, that might seem true, but it's not. The financial system currently depends on stable oil.
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The Saudis sustain the value of the dollar. Without them, it would collapse. I think this is why Trump flip-flopped. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-22/donald-trump-saudi-arabia-and-petrodollar …
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There's more to it than stable oil. Proxy war with Russia and China. Straights of Hormuz. Silk road 2.0. Central Asia.
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The proxy war with Russia is driven by oil. Cutting our entanglement with the Saudis will fix more future problems than it creates.
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