Yes GCC has economic relations with many powers. But when push comes to shove ,they dont mean jack shit , its the strategic relations that are the "real deal " . Just take a step back and analyze the events of the past 2-3 years.From the looks of it GCC is in deep shit.
Your Strategic partnership with US sunk deep in the Arabian Sea , when US not only signed a pact with your persian enemies but also refused to join your coalition in Yemen. Turkey also refused to be your partner in the yemeni war and directly supported MB in Egypt .That leaves Israel as your only ally in the region . Thousands of your youths have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq many have joined ISIS and when these radicalized citizens come back they will cause more than just headaches. Infact, the series of Mosque bombings this year is also alarming. Iran uses its oil revenue to boast its various manufacturing industries . Sheiks use their oil revenue to build sand castles and luxury hotels.
Nobody outside of Saddam Hussein has ever attacked the GCC (Kuwait only) nor is anyone in the neighborhood able to harm the GCC or suicidal enough to attack it. Our only enemy in the region are the fake-wannabe Arab Mullah's that have ruled Mullahstan since 1979.
Yes, if having the by far biggest economy in the MENA region and Muslim world (almost a 2 trillion dollar GDP (nominal), highest GDP per capita (nominal), having cordial relations with all powers and all Muslim countries with the exception of Mullahstan, being one of the most resource rich areas of the planet, one of the most strategically located, being a religious and cultural power in the Muslim world means being "in deep shit" then I am happy about that.
Let alone the fact that the non-oil/gas sector in the GCC is booming and the populations are getting highly educated at a rapid speed. For instance KSA has the highest number of students at US universities in the world per capita and only fourth in terms of sheer numbers after 1.3 billion big China, 1.2 billion big India and 50 million big South Korea.
More Saudi Arabians studying in the U.S. - latimes
Moreover the GCC is home to the highest ranked universities in the MENA region.
The US-GCC relations will remain close and cordial like they have been for 70 years despite certain differences with the Obama administration. The relations are too important economically, geo-politically and military wise.
The US is supporting the Arab coalition in Yemen and the Arab coalition (mostly made up by KSA and UAE) are advancing all the time and have suffered less than 100 casualties in 5 months of war. The Houthi terrorist cult has had 20-30 as many casualties and its foot soldiers + branches of the Yemeni army loyal to the Ali Abdullah Saleh crook.
Are you drunk? The GCC has the entire Arab world outside of the Iraqi and Algerian regimes as brotherly allies. That's almost 400 million people. Excluding the close/trusted relations with several important Muslim nations and world powers.
Less than 2500 youths have joined Daesh out of a population in the GCC of over 50 million. Many of those youths have ancestral ties to nearby Iraq and Syria and most of them hail from the border regions. Daesh has only managed to kill 40 people in KSA in the past 2.5 years.
You are really ignorant about this topic.
The Land of the Two Holy Mosques has been blessed with wealth, beauty and stability and if the stability will be challenged Muslims all across the world will answer the calls. House of Saud or no House of Saud. They are irrelevant here and are 1 ruling family out of 100's that have ruled Arabia and they won't rule forever either.
I have read about those doomsday predictions dating all the way back to the late 1950's. Just give it up. The development has only moved in the right direction since then although not always fast enough or without trouble but that's the case with every nation.
