Posted on 11/17/2018 11:08:42 AM PST by Pelham
...” Iran’s friends would love nothing more than to weaken MbS, and to split off the KSA from the United States, and they are using Khashoggi’s murder as a tool to do that.”..
YES Indeed! Great post!
The US has had decades relationships with the Sauds......with good reason when you look at the History.
As for how the Middle Easterner Leadership is in how they deal with their “issues” between their countries. It’s always tribal style... That’s not going to change...they’ll simply be better at hiding it.
They were right - Iran IS the major threat - - to their survival - - and possibly ours too.
Here are a couple of background articles that I don’t validate as fact but find lots of things in them that makes sense. As much sense as the Middle East can.
Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s prince of chaos
https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/saudis-prince-chaos-205606563
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The night of the long knives in Saudi Arabia
https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/night-long-knives-saudi-arabia-1884539620
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