It would hurt them as well, but they sure can do it as threat with teeth.
KSA, Pakistan, and Indonesiaare pretty much pushing the worst Wahhabism there is. It really is the axis of evil in modern times.
That we are allied with them and refuse to push them to deal with it is absurd.
...He also said this
I think it was a different Interview from Reuters.
I just can't anymore.
dude is like the world's Pimp, 'where's my money?' to everyone
South Korea
Saudi Arabia
NATO
Mexico
Canada
I think USA had cheaper gas than some other countries for the last... 50 years. Does he think it's a coincidence?
Nah, SA has a huge deficit at present.
http://www.economist.com/news/middl...s?zid=308&ah=e21d923f9b263c5548d5615da3d30f4d
Basically, the entire country survives off the oil revenue, and increasingly over time, they've gotten used to spending it with abandon.
I wish we'd stop supplying them with weapons.
Come to think of it, where does that arms sales money go, anyway? I'd be surprised if it goes to funding our schools. How fungible is it?
He doesn't understand the purpose of alliances, at all.
I think USA had cheaper gas than some other countries for the last... 50 years. Does he think it's a coincidence?
Oil is openly traded... You're confused. We have an infrastructure already built-up for many years and we happen to be the world's largest exporter of oil.
Honestly, the president is barking up the wrong tree here. Saudi Arabia buys so much in terms of airplanes and military weapons, his comment is really cringe inducing.
He doesn't understand the purpose of alliances, at all.
About time for another Oil Crisis!
They can decide to not trade it in US markets. They also can jettison the dollar as their reserve currency.
It would hurt them as well, but they sure can do it as threat with teeth.
dude is like the world's Pimp, 'where's my money?' to everyone
South Korea
Saudi Arabia
NATO
Mexico
Canada
Makes sense. He seems like the kind of guy who's gone his entire life without ever having a real, actual "friend."
You mean he's right and has been saying this for the last 30 years.
How does Saudi Arabia government drive terrterrorismPeople should try to keep their biases from blinding them from the truth. Trump is nowhere near correct, in fact, U.S benefits more from the Saudi-U.S relationship.
The Saudis buy almost all of their military equipment from U.S. Not to mention they are a huge reason why oil is traded in USD as they are the biggest exporter of oil and have tremendous weight in the OPEC countries.
There is a downside to the relationship in that terrorism is primarily driven by the Saudis. In terms of protection, the Saudis do not truly need "protecting", it is a mutually beneficial alliance.
Even if U.S relinquished this relationship, it would still have to be involved in the region to keep it from going unstable with wars and nuclear weapon races due to the resource which holds strongly onto the world's heart. Until oil is irrelevant, do not expect U.S to drop the Saudis, it is unrealistic and could possibly crash the world economy.
They can decide to not trade it in US markets. They also can jettison the dollar as their reserve currency.
It would hurt them as well, but they sure can do it as threat with teeth.
If the saudi's want to fuck with the US on oil trump and the republican congress can just subsidize fracking. I really wonder who is going to be blinking first in such a scenario, especially considering the saudi's already blinked on it last year (iirc?) when they almost killed their own economy trying to drive US oil out of business.
A lot of people are reading too much into this methinks. Obama was being cold on the Saudi's in the back half of his administration because they simply aren't as important an ally as they used to be in a post fracking world and Trump hammering on them here is pretty much just an extension of that.
How does Saudi Arabia government drive terrterrorism
People really need to see how some of the Middle East see Saudi Arabia before making such a claim.
Al Qaida, ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Saddam, Qadafi, AL Assad had and for some still are calling Saudi Arabia as the American / Israeli traitor who invaded Mecca and Medina and Muslims needs to take them back.
Saudi Arabian American was the main premises for Numerous terrorist even from within Saudi Arabia were recruite.
Saudi Arabia being an American ally favours US over other countries when it comes to certain deals.
Go hear terrorist chants regardless from which camp their from
It's always
Death to America
Death to Israel
Death to Al Saud (Saudi royal family)
Yes Saudi Arabia has some human rights issues
Yes they armed rebels with Qatar, Turkey and the US just for ISIS to take advantage
The only mistake Saudi Arabia have done is keeping it's mouth sealed against the Muslim Brotherhood and banned them so late
The MB were the mechanism that convinced a lot of Saudis to go help Syrian.
Saudi Arabia doesn't have any intentions of expanding since based on their previous actions love to keep things as is to gain stability as other countries Gulf in the region.
Remember these countries are new and focusing mostly on stability, rocking the boats for good or bad is not in their favor.
I think USA had cheaper gas than some other countries for the last... 50 years. Does he think it's a coincidence?
Dude can't shut up
Your hate is blinding you. He's right in this case.
How does Saudi Arabia government drive terrterrorism
People really need to see how some of the Middle East see Saudi Arabia before making such a claim.
Al Qaida, ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Saddam, Qadafi, AL Assad had and for some still are calling Saudi Arabia as the American / Israeli traitor who invaded Mecca and Medina and Muslims needs to take them back.
Saudi Arabian American was the main premises for Numerous terrorist even from within Saudi Arabia were recruite.
Saudi Arabia being an American ally favours US over other countries when it comes to certain deals.
Go hear terrorist chants regardless from which camp their from
It's always
Death to America
Death to Israel
Death to Al Saud (Saudi royal family)
Yes Saudi Arabia has some human rights issues
Yes they armed rebels with Qatar, Turkey and the US just for ISIS to take advantage
The only mistake Saudi Arabia have done is keeping it's mouth sealed against the Muslim Brotherhood and banned them so late
The MB were the mechanism that convinced a lot of Saudis to go help Syrian.
Saudi Arabia doesn't have any intentions of expanding since based on their previous actions love to keep things as is to gain stability as other countries Gulf in the region.
Remember these countries are new and focusing mostly on stability, rocking the boats for good or bad is not in their favor.
This is exactly what is called "propping up terrorists" and to clarify, a terrorist blowing up civilians in Syria is still a terrorist to U.S. Just because they align with our goal in defeating Assad, does not mean they are not terrorists.
- "Okay but maybe the US doesn't consider them as a terro-"
And now it is escalting as YPG/PKK attacked a
people are obsessed of literally clinging to the past and past offensives not realizing that governments move and change and interests change as well
currently every terror group is after Saudi's head
except unless they are the PKK
I wasn't clamping on your statement rather I am just pointing out that literally everyone in the coalition is just tossing arms to anyone that might share a common interest for themActually, I did not say that with 9/11 in mind and my response to him clarifies that, so no it isn't clinging to pas offenses.
Governments do change and so do their interests, but it doesn't change what the past administrations have done and if the future/current ones do anything to rectify it. That is like me trying to wave away the actions of U.S in the Cold War, sure that was the past, but it still had significant negative effects in the regions.
Like I said earlier though, Saudia Arabia have been doing more to clamp down on terrorist cells and extremist that originates there, so I am giving them some credit.
You are talking to me, not the U.S government, whataboutism won't work here especially since I would agree U.S shouldn't mingle with the PKK.
However, I don't care about Turkish interests either and the Kurds are the best bet for dealing with ISIS along with their need for their own territory which Turkey tries the best it can to stop it.
I wasn't clamping on your statement rather I am just pointing out that literally everyone in the coalition is just tossing arms to anyone that might share a common interest for them
regardless of what that would indicate in the future... The US hasn't learnt from its past mistakes
Similarly SA has funded some rebel groups that have questionable objectives but not the current known terror groups that are ISIS and AQ, etc... regardless of what some people speculate (which again is just speculation and nothing more)
The form of whataboutism doesn't negate any of these countries doing stupid shit but rather I for one am stating that and giving the information that the US is currently conducting in terrorism funding... again and should not do so for not only the betterment of the ME but actually the betterment of future US policy.
The whole coalition be it SA, Turkey, US, etc... literally are not thinking long term or are not even caring on what their so called allies think and that is a problem if you want to even get to a common objective let alone end it.