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While Trump is orb fondling and curtsying to the Saudi king, watch this video to see what it is really like to live in that nation...
LeftInTX
(25,337 posts)Tells of our relationship with SA going back to the 1930s
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)After September 11th our nation should have given the entire region a collective middle finger and completely removed ourselves from involvement there. Instead of squandering trillions of dollars in our military adventures and propping up regimes such as the Saudi's, we should have invested that money in renewable energy here at home and left the region to sort its own mess out.
We could tell all the nations in the region "keep your damn oil, we don't need it and you aren't getting anymore support from us."
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)transportation with oil for a long time. It's the rich running Washington. We have not needed oil for years, but they just keep pushing it because it's how they make their money
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Dow Chemical, Chevron, ExxonMobil.
To say nothing of the private equity firms that rely on their capital.