Enough of the B.S. Regarding Saudi Arabia

By exporting our inflation around the globe, Biden is violating a core requirement of the dollar being the world’s reserve currency—and countries around the world are not happy about it.

 

By John Conlin  October 14, 2022

Let’s first get the mandatory disclaimer out of the way: The Saudis are not our friends and they never have been. It doesn’t follow, therefore, that they must be our enemy. Not being a friend is not the same as being an enemy. And, in any event, grownups know that countries don’t exactly have friends, they have interests and interests shift with time and events.

It has been a strategic error of this country for decades—with both political parties acting as willful participants—to accept the internal Saudi Arabian “deal” where the royals can live whatever decadent lifestyles they choose so long as they allow the Wahabis to control Islamic teaching and world-wide propagation of the faith from the home of the most sacred sites in Islam.

This has not only allowed, but encouraged the spread of a poisonous branch of Islam across the globe. A great many problems in the world find their roots in this sick compromise..........To Read More.