This is no longer about any sort of strategic repositioning of Saudi foreign policy.
MBS deliberately made it personal when he explicitly decided to cut production quotas drastically right before the U.S. midterm elections.
MBS is a dead man walking now.
The U.S. can allow Saudi to do all kinds of shit, but to directly threaten the sitting U.S. president's political future for something so petty as to not waiting a few weeks to do the production cuts after the mid-term elections, especially when they got assurances that the U.S. can keep crude oil prices propped up until then by refilling the strategic petroleum reserve when the spot WTI price goes below 75-80 USD.
So many international players are playing the current crisis so extremely poorly that it's kind of unbelievable.
Europeans committing economic suicide despite the U.S. not forcing them to other than on natural gas.
MBS doing literally the most retarded ploy possible.
Putin refusing to commit the needed level of troops to win decisively in Ukraine.
This is the most unrealistic timeline.
MBS deliberately made it personal when he explicitly decided to cut production quotas drastically right before the U.S. midterm elections.
MBS is a dead man walking now.
The U.S. can allow Saudi to do all kinds of shit, but to directly threaten the sitting U.S. president's political future for something so petty as to not waiting a few weeks to do the production cuts after the mid-term elections, especially when they got assurances that the U.S. can keep crude oil prices propped up until then by refilling the strategic petroleum reserve when the spot WTI price goes below 75-80 USD.
So many international players are playing the current crisis so extremely poorly that it's kind of unbelievable.
Europeans committing economic suicide despite the U.S. not forcing them to other than on natural gas.
MBS doing literally the most retarded ploy possible.
Putin refusing to commit the needed level of troops to win decisively in Ukraine.
This is the most unrealistic timeline.