Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says

Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by ethbr0 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:55PM (#27256512)

Anything involving the Saudis is in fact an adjustment of the world economic petro-dollar system.

The US and Saudis both have a very large gun to each other's heads... so that's a pretty constrained situation.

It will be curious to see what happens in the next 10+ years as oil-as-energy demand begins to wane.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by sthnblllII on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:14PM (#27256684)

>The US and Saudis both have a very large gun to each other's heads

Thats just not true. Saudi family rule over Arabia is predicated on US support. If all SA oil production stopped it would not topple the US government. If the US decided to back a political opposition like it did in Syria the Saudi regime would implode in days.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by jessaustin on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:54PM (#27257019)

Saud family have a lot in the bank, so they could hire someone else if USA politics got rid of their lobbyists who control much of Congress. Are they so weak that they would simply collapse without USA support? I would think they could just hire e.g. some ex-Pakistani military to keep the populace cowed.

Or do you mean to say that USA could easily replace the regime with a different, more-favored one? How did that work in Syria? We're withdrawing from Afghanistan now, and at this time Taliban control more territory than they held in 2001. USA military is a bit of a paper tiger, when it comes to achieving results via military action.

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