Looks like neither tRump nor Congress will be able to do anything about it, even if we wanted them to.
We have all just been served notice that oil is our downfall, and Saudi Arabia is our master.
Now we have to make up some kind of tRumpian/PeeWee Herman excuse to forget about the murder.
In a strongly worded op-ed published on Sunday, Turki Aldakhil, general manager of the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel, warned that if the US imposed sanctions on Riyadh "it will stab its own economy to death," cause oil prices to reach as high as $200 a barrel, lead Riyadh to permit a Russian military base in the city of Tabuk and drive the Middle East into the arms of Iran.
"There are simple procedures, that are part of over 30 others, that Riyadh will implement directly, without flinching an eye if sanctions are imposed," he said.
"If US sanctions are imposed on Saudi Arabia, we will be facing an economic disaster that would rock the entire world," he added.
He warned that any sanctions would lead to the kingdom's "failure to commit" to specific levels of oil production and "if the price of oil reaching $80 angered President tRump, no one should rule out the price jumping to $100, or $200, or even double that figure." |
