Saudi Arabia is raising gasoline prices. President Biden flew to Saudi Arabia earlier this year to sweet-talk the Saudi leader, MBS. They famously fist-bumped.
Biden's reward? OPEC's actions raise gasoline prices at the pump in the U.S. Right before the U.S. midterm elections. This is not only a deliberate humiliation of the current U.S. President in preference to his predecessor. This is a planned attack on the elections in the United States, and not for the first time.
One of the actors that urged OPEC to do this was Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman or MBS. The second actor was OPEC's current co-chair, Russia.
The United States was successfully and infamously attacked by Russia beginning by 2016 at least.
Now it's Saudi Arabia. Again. Saudi Arabia is the country that spawned the vast majority of the terrorists of 911 who attacked the U.S. in 2001.
President Biden was humiliated by MBS. The U.S. has been attacked – for a second time – by Saudi Arabians, MBS in particular. We will get to see President Biden's response and what his response will be. Sweet-talking just does not produce positive results with MBS and the Saudis – nor the Russians.
There are things that the U.S. can do in response. Here are only some of them:
As to MBS:
- The evidence is pretty clear that he directed the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist employed by a U.S. newspaper. Indict MBS now. Put him on trial in the U.S., even if MBS never sets foot here personally again (which alone is a good result for the U.S.).
- If the Department of Justice does not think it has enough evidence to indict MBS for the horrible Khashoggi murder, then investigate MBS.
- At the time of the Khashoggi murder, Turkey reportedly had a tape and Khashoggi's screams were audible on it. Also, CIA agents reportedly heard that tape. Dollars to doughnuts, the CIA has a copy. Publish it. Link the Khashoggi murder to the person who ordered it from Saudi Arabia.
- MBS reportedly over-rode the rejection of Saudi Arabia's multi-billion dollar payment to the Grievance Boy's son-in-law. The press operation in the White House has enough experienced people in it, to make sure that this fact stays in the minds of the American public.
As to Saudi Arabia:
- Saudi Arabia buys a lot of weapons from the United States. There are almost certainly a lot of questions arising from those contracts including unexplained and unforeseen delays in delivering whatever the Saudis have already paid for. As to weapons that the Saudis have not yet paid for, saying that such contracts might need to be rescinded can be a good first step to possibly rescinding them if the U.S. chooses to rescind them in the future, depending on future Saudi and MBS actions.
- Reportedly, the U.S. is supporting the Saudi atrocities from its bombing campaign in Yemen on civilians. I do not know exactly how the U.S. is supporting that campaign, but it must stop.
- There are also reportedly some U.S. soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia. Female soldiers are wearing head-scarves in compliance with Sharia law in Saudi. The soldiers should wear the same uniforms that they wear in every other country for as long as they are stationed in Saudi Arabia. It would be even better if U.S. soldiers were withdrawn completely from Saudi Arabia.
As I said at the beginning, these are only some of the things that can be done now. These are some of the ways that the United States can respond to Saudi Arabians' second attack on the United States—and to Russia's continuing attack on the United States.
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