Monday, November 6, 2017

Pepe Escobar — The inside story of the Saudi night of long knives

War breaks out within the House of Saud, as Asia Times had anticipated back in July. Rumors have been swirling for months about a coup against MBS in the making. Instead, what just happened is yet another MBS pre-emptive coup....
Meanwhile, a pile-up of purges, coups and countercoups shall be the norm....
In a nutshell: a state that happens to be the private property of a royal family inimical to all principles of freedom of expression and religion, as well as the ideological matrix of all forms of Salafi-jihadism simply cannot metastasize into a “moderate” state just because MBS says so.

Asia Times
The inside story of the Saudi night of long knives
Pepe Escobar

6 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Looks like they are having to collect up all the munnie...

Noah Way said...

If the CIA favorite is out then the regime is living on borrowed time.

Ignacio said...

Oil not recovering to +80 USD/barrel = all failed petro-states in shambles.

Tom Hickey said...

If the Israel, the US, the UAE, and SA get their way with making war on Iran and Hezbollah, the odds of which are increasing rapidly, oil price will skyrocket.

Should show up in futures if the likelihood of war increases and markets begin to take notice?

Matt Franko said...

Not a blip yet in USD/SAR...

Tom Hickey said...

Betting against war.