Reply #14: "He Who Can Destroy A Thing, Can Control A Thing" [View All]

[Strelnikov_]

Without the Saudi's accepting/holding petrodollars, the US economy is screwed.

Without the Saudi's willing to maintain close to their current levels of petroleum production, the US economy is screwed.

If the Saudi's, as a result of a GOP Reich petrograb, decide to detonate the radiological "dirty bombs" they reportedly have mined their facilities with, the US and Western economies will collapse.


For all their many shortcomings, the Saudi's have provided some semblance of stability in the world oil market. If, through either a falling out with the US or open conflict with the one indigenous Gulf power (Iran), this stability is lost, the US economy, at a minimum, is screwed.

If the Saudi petroleum reserves are lost along with the balance of the Gulf reserves (if Saudi is gone, it is all probably gone), we have Petrocollapse.


Kinda like Dune, isn't it. "The Spice Must Flow".