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9. Our Drug Supplier can do no wrong

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And as long as the US AND Europe are dependent on Oil from the Persian Gulf, we will let the House of Saud do as it wants. This will be true even if the US becomes a net oil exporter in the next few years (Predicted, but then only for about 18 months, and then only at the price of oil above $90 a barrel, something that oil has NOT been able to hold).

We are in a dangerous time periods. Alliances are going to change. Europe is becoming more and more dependent on Russian Natural Gas and oil, and thus the US is losing control over Europe (people forget from 1859 till the 1960s not only was the US the #1 oil producer, it was the #1 oil exporter, this ended about 1970 when the US became an oil importers).

After the 1956 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars, Saudi Arabia and its fellow Arab oil exporters did an oil embargo. These embargoes had no effect on the US for the US was still a net oil exporter in 1956 and 1967. In 1973 the Arabs attacked Israeli again, and the Arabs did a third embargo, but the US was a net oil importer so it hit the US hard. In many ways the 1973 Oil Embargo hit the US harder then the more severe cut off of oil in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution for the simple reasons Americans were NOT expecting an oil shortage just because the Arabs cut off oil.

After that embargo the US made a deal with the House of Saud, the US would protect them if they never again cut off oil. In 1973 the US was relying on the Shah of Iran to do that protection, so he was permitted to buy any piece of US Military hardware he wanted. Then the 1979 revolution occurred and the House of Saud went into panic mode and demanded US protection. The US did and when Saddam took Kuwait, the House of Saud panicked again and the US sent in troops to protect Saudi Arabia and restore Kuwait to the Control of the Emir of Kuwait.

The US has been very good to the house of Saud, we have protected them over and over again. When the US could not do something for the House of Saud, we arranged for someone else to do it instead (The French are rumored to have sent their special forces to clear out a group of radicals that controlled the Grand Mosque in Mecca, but it appears the French just trained the Pakistanis who did the actual assault):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure#Seizure

Thus our drug supplier can do not wrong and until the US gets serious about eliminating the US dependence on oil, we will continue to support the House of Saud.