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Nah. Us used to be their biggest buyer, but now it's china, and with usa also falling out due to Biden not respecting MBS, Saudi is obviously turning more to china as china keeps rising. It's not just happening in Saudi but the whole world. China is replacing usa in importance and influence for most of the world, and as more time passes, this becomes more and more true. Saudi isn't losing all international support, what you on about? They are gonna join Brics+ soon, and their influence on global politics will only grow as a result.
This sounds like they are removing freedom from their oil. Some people don't like that. >

The US wouldn’t dare attack Saudi Arabia. The last time the US was there—as friends to launch an invasion against Iraq it got a lot of Islamic fundamentalists angry because a bunch of non-Muslims were too close to Mecca. They considered it an affront and one of them got a bunch of other fundamentalists to fly airplanes into buildings.
Attacking KSA is a good way to enrage a billion Muslims world wide. They’d see it as a neo crusade. >

The US doesn't need to attack with weapons. Arab culture is so flammable & passionate about everything and nothing. All it takes is a spark of internal debate about basic human rights and the whole country would implode. See Iran for reference.
Why do you think freedom of speech is so illegal in these places? >

Ahhh yes USA is such a bastion of freedom OMG. 
Basically two corrupt parties that have same policy towards everything and both controlled by corporations. Such freedom, much democracy. >

Yo, the US has deep, deep problems, but comparing our freedom and their freedom is fair. We have an archaic and somewhat broken democracy that still functions, and they have an autocratic monarchy. We both function, but SA doesn't even have something as basic as the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments. Seriously, the number of new Americans I meet in my city, most would rather be here by far. Saudi's among them. >

US Politicians: Is anyone else smelling Weapons of Mass Destruction in Saudi Arabia? >

I wish this meme would die.
At any point during the occupation of Iraq the US never took oil. IIRC, the French actually had the most oil contracts with Iraq. >

Those Sadam gold bars were much easier to move >

That's what colonel Gaddafi tried to do >

And Saddam. And Iran. And Chavez. Only Iran is functioning (and not so much since they killed an innocent girl for not covering her hair) >

They can threaten it, but there really isn’t any other currency that makes sense. Perhaps selling to China directly in Yuan does but that doesn’t really hurt the US. No one outside China trusts trusts the Yuan more than the dollar, especially given the delay in releasing financial reports last year.  Everyone else depends on a currency with enough liquidity, so the only other reasonable choice is the Euro. Considering how strong the dollar is and will likely remain for the next few years, I’m not sure why the Euro would be preferable. If the Euro or Yuan don’t make sense, I don’t see how any other currency other than the dollar makes sense.
Sadly for Britain, Brexit has killed the pound. What a mistake that was. >

Well, it could mean two things…
Euros - like Venezuela, Iran and a bunch of other countries tried doing (the US didn’t like it), or it could mean rubles, which is what Russia wants right now, because to buy something in rubles, you need to buy rubles first, and this creates demand for an otherwise worthless currency and saves Russia having to spend their precious and limited foreign cash on buybacks to maintain the rubles value. >


Of course the US is going to apply pressure. It’s still going to protect its interests. 
The price cap really affects Russias income. Russia was doing really well when gas and oil were through the roof last summer. Now that oil and gas are low Russia is running a deficit. 
I think the US and Venezuela are in a dance at the moment. I am hoping that relationship is moving in a more positive direction
The Euro hasn’t faired really well either. It’s really a different world in 2023. The dollar is strong and the US now has regular LNG deliveries to Europe, so there is even more incentive to trade in dollars. >

Does this mean USA will export freedom to Saudi Arabia too?
If not, MBS will be the first Arab leader to not be assassinated for doing this. >

Makes sense. The 3 biggest markets (China, US, and Europe) for oil exports are all pushing for energy independence hard the last few years. The US already outproduces oil compared to Saudi Arabia by 50% for example. Oil exporting nations will lose a large amoint of their power over the next decade as alternate power sources replace the need for importing oil, while regional or domestic sources produce all the oil needed for non-power related uses. 
This is more of a last desperate attempt to make enough money to build the line before Saudi Arabia loses all international support.