... consultations on how to enhance the region’s security architecture.”
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Nikolay Soukhov:
One Thousand and One Nights: Barack Obama
on Missile Defence in the Persian Gulf
Оne of the agreements reached at the summit was to ... ... warning system. Several GCC states have necessary defense components in place already, such as short-range Patriot systems in Saudi Arabia and THAAD systems in Qatar, but the new agreement provides for the installation of a comprehensive system that would ...
... Development of France had announced that negotiations would be taking place regarding projects whose total cost would come to “tens of billions of euros”. And it just so happens that Laurent Fabius and French President François Hollande are
currently in Saudi Arabia
as guests at the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf summit, where they are discussing new arms deliveries. Could it be that Barack Obama was hinting to potential buyers that they should hold on to their money until “real” ...
... since WWI, what will America do now?
Going forward, here’s what we can expect:
1.) America will try very hard to distance itself from the Gulf.
It’s amazing that it’s taken us so long to realize how much our money going into Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Gulf states comes back to haunt us: though Joe Biden recently got in trouble for saying so, support for ISIS and other Islamic extremists and terrorists from very wealthy individuals motivated by the Saudi state-sponsored ...
... repeating itself. Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro talks these days about the fact that the USA and its allies want to “harm Russia” in a similar way
[2]
, and Iran’s former oil minister Masoud Mir Kazemi believes that the USA and Saudi Arabia are also reckoning on damaging Iran.
“Am I the only one who thinks this, or is it really an oil war in which the USA and Saudi Arabia are taking action against Russia and Iran?” writes the well-known American political commentator ...
... on the name of the group the United States coalition is fighting. Obama calls it “ISIL”. The New York Times and USA Today call it “ISIS.” Others just call it “IS.”
Is’s all part of what an essay by Brookings,... ... than ISIS because, as a political and religious institution, it has been around longer, and has long held the goal of removing Saudi Arabia as the center of world Islam.
Days before that statement, in a Wall Street Journal teaser article promoting his ...
... democracy,” is funded mainly by George Soros.
The New York Times sourced Levy about the latest attempt by Israel and Saudi Arabia to cooperate on a casus belli project involving their common enemy, Iran.
This budding activity has “mission ... ... product known as smart power- sending the entire process back to square one.
Billions of dollars are spent annually, and thousands of jobs are created in government and the private sector by all major actors. Yet there seems to be an inability to act ...
A groundswell of popular articles and academic monographs are appearing that discuss nuclear guided missile warfare, modernizing delivery platforms, warheads and sophisticated guidance systems. On the power curve one sees a major realignment of diplomatic relationships among major powers that seek to control threats but provide opportunities for new situations to develop. Refugees and fundamentalist agitators have become pawns in the game.
The trend is reinforced by news and expert analysis about...
... the regime will be overthrown. Hence the adverse implications for U.S.-Saudi relations. On the decline of the UN bid by Saudi Arabia, Kinzer held that this decision was made by the king. He argued that neither the clergy nor strong groups among six thousand prices want to see a change in Saudi Arabia, and their opposition towards U.S. foreign policy ultimately dissuaded the king from accepting the bid.
The Speaker's Bio:
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents....
... as it is in fact a double-edge sword, if it prices oil too highly by lowering production [which is not instantaneous, as markets must firstly adjust], it also leads to alternatives being more appealing. It would be wrong to suggest that emergence of USA shale oil boom was due to Saudi Arabia/OPEC pricing policy, as it was more to do with speculation, but still, as prices increased to all time highs US local producers decided to jump on the bandwagon. I doubt that the US will be able to overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as some ...
