Raymond J. Learsy: Saudi Realpolitik: Political Blackmail, Oil Price Extortion

If so it would be an exercise of blatant political blackmail threatening the American government with the following Hobson’s choice:
A- Either you continue your presence in Iraq at the cost of the lives your soldiers, and at the cost of billions and billions in treasure, or
B- We the Saudis, will initiate policies that will all but guarantee a massive riposte by Iran and the descent of the region into a conflagration of war and savagery. It will certainly result in impaired access to, or possibly even destruction of the regions oil and gas infrastructure and push the world’s economies into deep crisis.

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