Widening Fissures, How the US Could ‘Lose’ Saudi Arabia

… Of all the Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia may well be experiencing the most significant changes. Although the subject rarely is broached, many in the U.S. Congress and the U.S. public have had the uneasy sense that Riyadh’s vast oil resources and the ever-increasing U.S. dependence on petroleum imports has provided the Saudi’s a veritable Sword of Damocles that hints at the use (as in 1973) of oil as a weapon by which the kingdom might try to restrain or otherwise influence U.S. policy and presence in the Persian Gulf-Caspian Sea areas.

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