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  Is that you Confucius?
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. >
  
  Let’s not forget SA funded 9/11, shall we? Get along as long as we have to. Renewables can’t come soon enough. >
  
  According to the committee on 9/11 and the FBI, the Saudi government had nothing to do with it.
  According to logic, its illogical that the government of Saudi Arabia while still being a little weak in 2001 would provoke and attack its protector state (the US).
  According to real life, Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda hate the guts of the Saudi government, one of the main goals of Al-Qaeda was to remove the Saudi monarchy because it allowed US troops and American military base in Saudi Arabia. Something very Haram in Osama's mind.
  According to nationality, Osama bin laden was banished from Saudi Arabia and stripped of his nationality in the 90s, years before 9/11 and he resided in Afghanistan at the time, later moved to Pakistan.
  According to Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is the more probable one, the US blames Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda claimed the Attack, how the fuck did Saudi Arabia turn out to be the preparators. >
  
  So much for our "ally". >
  
  They were never our ally. They're our drug dealer. I dream of the day that alternative energy sources will be viable and widely distributed enough that the world can tell Saudi Arabia to go pound sand. >
  
  I fear WMDs will "found" there soon. >
  
  About 10 years late for that joke. >
  
  stupid trick that works is not stupid.