I gather it's all merely the pretext we've been waiting for in order to finally take out the bad hombres in Iran once and for all #followthewhiterabbit #TrumpTrainOriginally Posted by Ash
I was actually talking about the jihadis than the Sauds, but anyway, we'll see about the Clown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's reforms. Maybe the night of the long knives is just a mass-pruning exercise while grabbing their wealth to pay the state bills accrued from the low oil price. 300 arrests so far.
Meanwhile he effectively kidnapped the Lebanese PM Hariri, which has managed to unite Hariri's own party with the Hezbies, rather than forcing them against Hezbollah, and even the Yanks are saying that there should be no conflict in Lebanon (not that I believe them). As with his move against Qatar, it has so far had the opposite effect than intended. His attack on Yemen has bogged down, and his attempts to use ISIS and AQ to defeat the Syrian goverment and install a Sunni State between Iran and Israel has failed. Everywhere Iran has increased its influence.
And this bloke could be about to be king for the next 50 years.
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