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  Let’s not forget SA funded 9/11, shall we? Get along as long as we have to. Renewables can’t come soon enough.
context: I’m open to flying without wings, but it isn’t going to happen. >
  
  It definitely can happen if Saudi Arabia completely lost hope in the west led by the US.
  Yes its difficult to replace the dollar with the Yuan or the Ruble, but its possible to replace the dollar with a currency basket. Actually, it might benefit Saudi Arabia more financially than the dollar, but we (Saudis) will lose the American favor, which is still worth something even though its not what it used to be. >
  
  You know people love to moralize about how the US or the West should stand up to the Saudis, it’s almost always comically misguided, betraying a total lack of understanding of just how pivotal KSA is in the current world order. Certainly Saudi Arabia has a lot of power and influence. 
  But. The US could reach out and crush them. It would take a lot of provocation, a real attack on the bottom line, like say… undermining the US as the world’s reserve currency.