Saudi Arabia and Israel Want a US Security Deal || Peter Zeihan
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- Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, has seen the ongoing engagement and security guarantee that the US has with Japan, and he wants a similar deal for Saudi Arabia.
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He's finally made it home! This guy's been lost in the mountains for months
Yes, was a bit shocked what happened 😅
Lol you beat me to it.
I just recently started watching him. First time I’ve seen him indoors. Lol
He is probably at a hotel.
Yeah remember a couple months back when he was stuck in the airport? He had to get home somehow.
Can we believe that he's the real Zeihan? I mean, look at it, HE'S INDOORS!
Could it be Ai generated?
Yeah: obviously an AI. Very realistic though!
The chairman of the World Bank dressed up in a bear suit and chased him out of the hills. Or maybe I heard wrong, I dunno.
Looks like a CIA operative has his hand up a puppets' bunghole.
@@brianbrown3328 Impossible. We would know, Zeihan would have uploaded a video about it while running.
"Peter Zeihan here. It seems that the bear market is approaching a lot faster than I previously thought!"
Peter, you forgot to mention that the Saudis also went the Chinese for a same deal and failed miserably.
They are pretty desperate to become the downside partner in that hegemony. Sell your soul comes to mind. Suspect the regions potential leaves them looking over their shoulders.
But since Biden spent our SPR trying to prop down gas prices so he could brag about "ending inflation" after causing it in the first place, the Saudis have a pretty big bargaining chip. No deal = no oil exports = high gas prices = Biden loses an election.
As it stands, China is getting free access to Saudi oil while it's the Americans who are footing the bill for security. Why would the Chinese go for an offer that would cost them money when they were getting it for free before?
The Chinese (PRC) are becoming less and less of an economic and therefore less militarily of a superpower, if they ever were. MBS would be wise to recognize Taiwan(ROC) if he wants international prestige. Of course, MBS would never do this as they(Saudis) do not respect human rights.
@@charleswomack2166 Nobody wants international prestige and nobody respects human rights.
After all these decades I think it would be an honor to let these people settle their own problems.
As an Isreal let me tell you that will never happen because of the fanatics who rule us today
Like that one time the saudis blew up your twin towers
@@EIyssiumall the more reason to tell them to get fucked and stay fucked.
Edit to clarify. I would tell the Saudi Arabia that without 9/11. They’re just bad actors I wouldn’t agree supporting with our troops to begin with.
@@EIyssiumyup and we should have ended both Israel and Saudi Arabia on that day, allying with Sadam, that would have been the smart policy.
@@EIyssiumThat was Al-Qaeda, which is completely different. They literally declared war on the Saudis too
I don’t recognize that mountain range.
Mount Drywall right behind him.
We need to get out of that region completely.
The only acceptable deal would be handing over final decision on everything oil to the United States in exchange for protection.
Exactly. And it may take a lot of Saudi refineries being destroyed by Iran for the Saudis to accept a deal that satisfies the USA. So it's in the US's interests to not make a deal now, rather someone should behind the scenes give Iran the green light for hostilities. 😉
After WW2 we had a 3000 ship navy and atomic bombs.We determined who sold what to whom and at what price in Americannbdollars
I don’t want to be any more involved in the Middle East
No deal is acceptable. No deal. We pump our own oil right here in the United States. Saudi Arabia has plenty of money and plenty of weapons. Now they can grow a backbone and defend their own turf.
@@ivancho5854Sorry, Iran, Saudi made up.
Dont look in the saudi ambassadors suitcase
4 heads in a duffel bag???
A defense pact with saudi arabia would be am imcredibly stupid thing to do
Truth. It;'s just to save Isreal money as Isreal and the Prince are already chummy.
Hence why I find it to be likely.
Well based on the U.S. history, it will be likely unfortunately. @@gorkyd7912
Wait what? This isn't a travel channel?😢
Saudis are offering the US a knife in the back.
As an American, I would simply say thanks, but no thanks to the Saudis.
same with the Israeli's ... due to their treatment of Palestinians..
As Saudi I said for you:🖕
@GaryRine what? Israel treats Arabs better than Arabs treat Arabs. If it was them murdering Americans or anyone else they would be dronned by now. Israel is waaayy to tolerant
@@GaryRine The palestine israel conflict will never be resolved as both sides want the other exterminated. I dont mean to defend Israel (awful nation), but knowing the history neither people wants to work with the other, both want the other exterminated. One just happens to be stronger and militarily competent.
To learn more lookup the first day of Israels creation and how many neighbours declared war on it, if you want to say Israel shouldnt have been there in the first place then you can blame the Brits (and French) who controlled the area and promised both Palestine and Israel their own nation in the same place. The Brits ended up just giving it to Israel and then ran away. Ive butchered the summary as a lot more things happen but in essence the palestine israel conflict will never be resolved as both sides want the other exterminated.
Exactly. Those who do not remember the Past are condemned to repeat it. MBwhatever is not to be trusted, look what he did to that journalist.
Maybe they should just make an air conditioned battlefield
That can be arranged, but the temps would be even higher....
Already in the works. It's a LINE.
The NERVE to ask for that type of security wtf
Esp since they are heavily responsible for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
@@AEvans36977 n responsible for 9/11. They scared af of Iran and the rest of them tribes they forced out into the desert. They see US leave n now Taliban controls a neighboring country they scared af
@@AEvans36977thats more of iran taking a shit in the saudis back yard.
Thanks for making videos everyday here lately Peter. I appreciate a daily dose of your input, and the fact that they're relatively short.
Israael is an apartheiid state that must be dismantled and scattered.
Well... Long is good also. Really, any length
You can’t trust any of them period !
It would be hard to trust MBS or Netanyahu in any deal, but a deal with BOTH MBS AND Netanyahu? Pass.
Let me expand on your sentiment…. Hard Pass!
The rumor amongst some of Israel's detractors is that most of Saudi is intended to be annexed to "Greater Israel." I dismissed the notion 20 years ago when it was first proposed to me. But, darned if events don't just trend in that very direction.
@@Jroc834 I notice you don't use your name. Got something to hide? Nice cartoon, though.
U mean the snake USA is better? 🤣
@@IA100KPDTi think the snake does not give a f
Yeah. I really don't see the US wanting to get dragged back into the Middle Eastern imbroglioafter finally detaching themselves from it. With the U.S. actively backing Ukraine in a hot war and trying to manage the China/N. Korea scenario at the other end of the planet, I don't see an upside for them.
"imbroglio". You'd trounce me in scrabble.
we fracked our way out of that cesspool; why go back?
And they are breaking from the petrol dollar and driving up the price of gas. Why should the U.S. provide that?
The last time the US staged forces in Saudi Arabia, the Saudis hijacked our airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center. Why on earth would we cut a deal with these people?
It’s looking like a tough situation for the Saudis. They Have to have US support, but the only thing they have to trade for it is oil, and America doesn’t need their oil, anymore.
In a practical world, what they’d be doing is entering talks with Israel and the Emirates and places like Egypt and Jordan to build a coalition against Iran… but there’s too much history, there. Israeli jets staged from northern Saudi fields could do a lot to knock back Iran by itself, but could you imagine the uproar that would cause?
Thank you Peter for your basically moderate and forthright observations. I always feel healthy when I hear things which haven't been sugar coated.
"Listen Mr. Saud, we had a good time with your dad and uncles, but the party's over. Let us know if you need any guns."
I would like to remind everyone that the last time we had American troops deployed to Saudi Arabia, it led to 9/11 possibly with Saudi support.
What?😂
9/11 - 15 out of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, members of a terrorist group led by a Saudi, and created, funded, trained and equipped by the Saudi and US governments.
US government: "Let's invade Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Iran!"
@@yonatanran659 Bin Laden committed to 9/11 because he hated that there were Americans in Saudi Arabia.
Yep bin laden wanted us out of arabia
@@yonatanran659why are you laughing? Half of the terrorist that were a part of 911 were Saudi’s. Read a history book you dunce.
Saving this to rewatch 1) as things unfold and 2) if anything comes of it.
Ha! I've been doing that with his vids for like a year. You know what? I've never gone back! 🙂
I would like you to comment on Hwawei making a 7 nanometer chip. Thanks
@@h1o1t2 I'm about as far removed of an expert on chip tech as you can get. But, as far as I can recall, the top end chips are less than 4 nanometers. So, if, according to you, Huawei is making 7 nanometer chips, I wouldn't know how that would be a concern. I don't think chip size has been as relevent in the discussions I have heard as much as sub-routines and devices. But, hey, I am no expert. Hope that helps.
No deal for cocky Saudi Arabia. Let’s leave and have them speak Farsi in riyadh. Let’s see if China can protect them. We need to reinstate the ban on oil export so that we don’t have to care about what happens to them.
Fusion will be the coffin nail on their arrogance
Oil is still an essential energy source, and the Saudis are still some of the biggest exporters. Letting them build a relationship with China means China will have a lot more clout with them. It may not mean that much to us, but we a lot of allies who are oil importers.
Perhaps our allies should be talking to the Saudis then. Can’t they speak for themselves?
There’s also the fact that switching away from oil won’t happen all at once. Trucks, tractors, and gears, all run on or are greased by petroleum products. Not that we should rely on theirs considering how much oil the US has under the ground.
The whole reason the west, not just the US was making deals in the middle east was to keep the excess oil out of other hands. If you quash your deal countries like China and India can build up reserves to project their military power and back others to keep prolonged wars going. It really does help keep some of these manpower heavy countries from aggression they know they can't sustain. Russia is only fielding so many troops fighting a war right next door because they can afford the fuel to move and keep supplied only a limited number of vehicles at a time. If they had a huge reserve like the US and multiple nations backing them they'd have been far stronger in number. It's really about blocking some of the best refined oil in the world from other buyers.
First line of the deal: No dismembering journalists
House of Saudi: Yeah that's just a non-starter
He was objectively a spy "journalist" and we knew exactly who the Saudis were all along. Our dumb regime just wants to switch to Iran instead of Saudi and is shooting us in the foot in doing so. People pretending to care about Khashogi is such a joke
Our government doesn’t care that a king murdered a journalist, and neither should most Americans. Only reason that story got so much run is because journalists cared for obvious reasons.
Then they'll just subcontract the hits to Putin.
not even a little dismemberment?
I endorse the policy vs. "journalists", especially one 's who are not journalists. Stop reading MSM caca.
The only way to make this kind of deal somewhat interesting would be a commitment from the Saudis about oil prices and who they sell oil to.
I doubt the Biden admin wants super cheap oil. Great for the economy by up ends the whole farfetched plan to electrify everything w/ solar and wind.
Something like that. It would certainly take way more than they're offering.
We should tell him to call President Putin
He's indoors?! Very correct information as always, the Middle East isn't worth the trouble. Not that it was ever really going all that well.
Thx to you, horrible beings 💩
Neither is Ukraine
@@mermadone6465Ukraine is very productive and European, something the US can't ignore.
@gikigill788 I've been to Luhansk, in 2011, before the war. I've been to Mykolaiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kyiv. I've seen the great wheat fields. I've lived there. Ukraine is not worth the US dollars being spent on it, and it provides no strategic value for the US. This whole thing is just a kickback to the military industrial complex.
Then gtfo from there you rats
Sure, SA tries to get others to bite the bullet for them.
Informative, thank you!
With friends like SA, and an increasingly intractable, disturbingly far-right Israel, maybe we should be more careful about whom we choose to associate with, starting right now. As someone who is old enough to remember the Arab oil embargo, 9/11, and the atrocities committed against anyone who raises descent in that barbaric fiefdom, I've got nothing for them. Ever. And as someone who remembers when Israel acted more like an actual democracy and less like a ham-fisted theocracy, hell-bent on expansion at any cost, I want to see our old friend return to the democratic side of things a bit before considering any new "commitments." This is one area in which putting American interests first is a no-brainer. Let them both do their own clean-up/fence mending for once.
Your observation of the region and your viewpoint of what should happen mirrors mine. I too remember the oil embargoes of the 70’s and having served in Desert Storm, has only shaped my viewpoint.
Having been to Israel since the mid 90s, I think you should try to see it from their vantage point too - especially with Hamas rockets.
All my pro-peace friends from the 90s have shifted to the right - there is no faith in a peace plan, so what Israel wants is to get rid of the Palestinians and get on with building their lives free from stabbings and rockets.
It’s hard to argue against that when you see what has happened there.
Israel is very much a democracy and the vast majority of people simply don’t feel that peace is possible.
There was a deal done AFTER the 70s making them an ally. Cheap Oil and UN Vote and backing in the Mid-East. Sounds like a plan.
Israel IS a democracy, get a clue.
@@existentialvoid "so what Israel wants is to get rid of the Palestinians" now there's a red flag if I've ever seen one.
@@josephmarr4711 don't read into it too much, it means to stop providing them with food, electricity and security on Israeli taxpayers money and just let them fall into a shithole Hamas is cooking for them, very much like a chaos Hizballa put poor Lebaneese people through.
I would much rather have Saudi Arabia as an enemy than as a close ally.
You feel that because all world gave you middle finger lol
As Saudi I wanna said that : we don’t care about you .😊
No to US security guarantees to Saudi Arabia and further US entrenchment into Middle East.
Funny to think you have a say in it. It's not a democracy.
SA and Israel are not our friends. Make them take care of their own affairs.
Oh God please no. Let's just get out of that region
HELL NO.
And along with that let yhem free to persue their own interests instead of dictating to them how to live
I believe the time for a reinvigorated US/Saudi/Israeli relationship has long passed for various reasons, namely Saudi Arrogance toward the US and allies for approximately the last 20 years. Without us they dont exist like they do. They need our navy much more than we need either of them.
Then we don't really need them, now do we?
As Saudi I said for you :you are liar 😂
No one in our country and all Middle East need you😂
It’s still strange to refer to a nation as if they were all Saudi family, or rather Saudi property. It should be just Arabs from Arabia where Saudis happen to be the rulers. Or what do you think?
@@ZlobitkoRostak-hp1enthat not your business
Wait, I thought Saudi wanted to stay away from US? 😂😂
Only when it suits them. When they need something, they'll come running back.
Dear Americans please please stop lying and leave us now .no one in my country or all Middle East need you 😂.
That’s when they thought the Russians will win in Ukraine and they can for some new oil alliance
You know when the wife acts up, flirting a bit with this dude and that, trying to make her husband jealous just so he would "return" to her? Yeah, it's the same thing.
More that Biden wanted to stay away from the Saudis.
Peter finally made it indoors 🎉
Thanks for the update.
Thank you Peter !
17 years? We’ve had forces in Kuwait and KSA since 1991 after the first Gulf War.
70 years
Bahrain
Beautiful Scenery!
Couldn't agree more...👍👍
Thanx for the vid.
I don’t trust either of those countries.
You shouldn't.
Very wise.
Also don't trust Vietnam
They don't trust themselves! Mind you, most of us don't trust the US either!
And no one trust usa lol😂
Let them try to do it on there own - OR - get them to really pay heavily for it...
Get some of the money we spent on protecting and guarding oils flows so we and our Allie’s could BUY oil from a nation state that hates us and sends religious killers to harm us back
Maybe if we just took the guar oil fields that would be enough to get American troops on the grouns
Exactly. SA needs to make oil production guarantees. They cut production then we start to pull troops.
Most countries would love to do it on their own. But Americans are up everyone's a... we want all yhose countries to do what is good for American policy and in return they give money and protection. Ever herd of saudis joining BRICS? we asked them not to join and keep the petro dollar, in return they asked for security guarantees... so which one is it? Cheap gas at the pump or?
Always Fascinating!!!
Thank you 🙏🏻
We would be idiots to give Saudi that deal
Israael is an apartheiid state that must be dismantled and scattered.
We do have senile Biden as president.
Look at the administration, it’s not too far fetched
@@dingus6317 Trump would be way more likely to do it given he already has a ton of business with Saudis
@@playea123 Doubt it. If Biden wasn't senile he would be taking bribes from everyone. He's already taken bribes from China and Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia has very advanced western weapons, they dont need us forces inside their country, they need to actually train their forces better
Truth and if they need jets, let them get them from Isreal their buddy.
Nice, you finally upgraded your video camera 👍
If the Saudis agree to a guaranteed amount of oil output per year, I'm interested.
This is almost certainly the reason they have cut production recently. It is another carrot to hang in front of Biden in the lead up to an election year. $100 a barrel oil would kill the Democrats next year, and everyone knows it.
Yup, no go without it.
Rember how Biden called Saudi Arabia a pariah state and pissed MBS off and how Biden made the trip to Saudia Arabia to kiss the Saudis ass for more oil and got the big F-U from them. Now the Saudis are scared of Iran and want the U,S, to protect it . I say piss off . Biden will now feel he has MBS over a barrel and negotiate for lower oil and claim his prowess over the middle east for the upcoming elections
We don't really import Saudi oil anymore, that's more of an Asia/Europe thing. So again, where's our upside?
@@evancourtney7746 then why are we paying out the ass for power in the US? both electric, oil and natural gas are all still really high since COVID, and theyre predicting a really bad shortage this winter.. and its supposed to be a real nasty winter too
Very nice analysis. I always wonder if I really understand Saudi Arabia.
The Palestinians don't need to be involved with an agreement between the Saudis and the Israelis.
The Iranians are the Palestinians primary backers, and neither want the US there.
Glad to see you finally found a home, Mr. Zeihan.
Suddenly the Hamas move makes more sense, they felt left out and tried to veto any deal.
General Sherman said that war is cruel. And so is reality. Time it is the Arabs told the Palestinians that they lost. They are defeated. But this raises the issue of where should they be settled and suddenly all Arab countries go quiet.
He also realized that you can’t oppress people forever. He was the General who visited my tribe in captivity and treated us with dignity when other US generals did not. General William TECUMSEH Sherman advocated the release of the Diné people from Fort Sumner
If Jordan didn’t have a monarchy Palestinians would already possess an internationally recognized country in which they are the majority of the population. But according to Arab leaders democracy isn’t for arabs.🤷♂️
The muslims haven’t lost yet
Muslims? Most Muslims don't give a damn about the Palestinians.
So weird to see him indoors
I know, where are the mountains?
You know we all love you. I enjoy hearing comments about you lost in the woods. It is very affectionate
The description of the Israeli government is hilarious
And largely inaccurate. When it comes to Israeli politics, Zeihan always makes big mistakes.
One of those nationalistic wack-a-doodles I presume? Or populist? Not sure, but in either case his description was pretty spot on.
“It would be great if USA/west had a good place to launch nukes from in the east somewhere;;right in the middle would be best imho” Abraham Lincoln
This is the same Saudi Arabia who just last year screwed the U.S regarding oil and out sanctions against Russia? The ones who relabeled Russian oil and sold it to the West at astronomically high prices? Now they want our help keeping Iran at bay? Maybe if they literally hand over the keys to the kingdom, i.e. all their oil production, maybe we should then take the call, otherwise forget them.
I’d say he’s spot on for both countries. And yes, the Israelis AND Saudis would like nothing more than to have Americans fight their war..
I have a question. Does this mean Saudi is still terrified of Iran?
They are without American protection.
Ofcourse. The Suni-Shiia rival in Islam is not going anywhere
You can't trust them. They had close secret relations with Isreal for over 22 years but only made it seem like it started during Trumps term 4 years back. They want jets and our modern arms because Isreal has given them little without a return.
No, they have made peace.
Truth. A few months back, they were talking. @@reshchak
Man really brought a background billboard to some mountain top somewhere
so interesting. may u plz add sources?
Jeez, that was a quick turn around. Wasn't everyone up in arms about recent Chinese overtures to Saudi Arabia and MBS?....
I dont think the United States or Zeihan ever take it seriously. Neither side has enough of what the other wants for a long term partnership to happen.
I guess any negotiation must start somewhere, but the Saudis started at "Sure, I'll buy that car, for 0 dollars, but you will have to pay for the parking space it takes in my driveway. Also you will be doing maintenance for free and every time it breaks you will lose one finger.
No hike today? Must be raining.
Not sure how I got un subscribed from your channel but just subscribed again 👍
MBS “edged them out”? That’s a very euphemistic way of putting it. 😏
You mean the are at the cutting edge of these issues, right? 😂😂😂
You can slice the concept in so many different ways,you have to stay sharp.
The matter is so serious that he cannot speak from the mountains 😂
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The middle easts game of " lets you and him fight " has gotten old .
You the best.
Time to cut ties with saudi arabia. To be honest I'm fine with less ties to israel as well.
Everyone's a populist but when the guy in the suit talks on NBC everyone wants to pretend they agree.
yup let them sort out their own shit and stop sending our soldiers to play police force in foreign lands where poeple hate them
It seems the rest of the world are looking to cut ties with the USA. Gotta love it!!
If they showed respect for a decade to make up for the all the disrespect and backstabbing- then maybe deal.
Those are funny looking trees and mountains in the background... 😂😅
It's hard to take any analyst seriously if there's no background mountain ranges.
No Saudi deal they wouldn't be good partners
Thank you
It must be raining (snowing?) in the mountains, as Peak Pete is in the studio, LOL.
I’m unconvinced the U.S. will step back in due to it being unpopular but it is nice to hear Zeihan talk because it gives me a read on the perspective of the US establishment bureaucracy.
The U.S. Government is not populist. In fact it's anti-populist. Whatever is popular, count on the U.S. to do the opposite and then use their state media to try to convince you otherwise.
Actually, I think it's more likely the US works out a deal with Israel/SA because of China encroachment.
Sound quality is getting better 👍
Big upvote for that. Interesting to see where he has been but the audio quality, or lack of it previously is distracting to me.
@@MasterMalrubius I listen on my headphones in a noisy factory while operating machinery. I usually wait until I'm on a quieter job to listen but this one was loud and clear.
Maybe now we can get back to airline flyover during his podcasts
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS!! THANK YOU FOR MAKING SHORT N DECISIVE N SIMPLE 😸👍🏽💕😃
Hey Peter - on your stylised background map - how about adding New Zealand!!!
Let us move to a place that allows us to reserve our right to be free of both.
Israael is an apartheiid state that must be dismantled and scattered.
Free? lol the minute the Saudis ditch the petro dollar the US this is done 😂
@@TS-zp7pe 😂😂😂
@@TS-zp7pe the minute the Saudis ditch the petro dollar it becomes Iran. 🤕🤕🤕
I hope we don’t take any deal unless it’s irresistible… I fucking hate that part of the world.
More importantly, they hate us
Where are you getting this info from?
That's an interesting vista behind you.
Lest We Forget: "The hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with Islamist jihadist organization al-Qaeda. They hailed from four countries; 15 of them were citizens of SAUDI ARABIA, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt, and one from Lebanon.'
High-level actors in the Saudi "government" (if you can even call what they have a government) _absolutely_ knew about the 9/11 attacks and provided material support to al Qaeda. They have never been held accountable and apparently never will be. These people are not our friends.
Yeah and Irak had WMDs.....
@@sebastiandc1392 Snarkiness doesn't make the facts as stated less factual, much less make you sound less stupid. They did come largely from SA. And if you studied history you would know Sadam INTENTIONALLY wanted the world (well mostly Iran) to suspect (and thus fear) he did have WMDs.
Couldn't agree more emphatically. SA has zero interest in USA security.
Dude israel did 911 go look up Christopher bollyn or dr Alan sabrosky
Normalisation, isn't that a very optimistic view considering that they can change their view whenever they can strike a new deal with a different defence force when it suits them, on the whim of "we'll normalise relations with this country we will very happily become hostile against when it suits us again?"
Let those feckless idiots have at each other. Last country standing wins. 🤕
Not at all. Everyone is opportunistic, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the US.
If one day China eclipsed The United States, I guarantee that Israel and Saudi Arabia, as well as some of European countries will switch sides.
On the other hand, if befriending Iran bring more benefit to the US, American govt will throw Israel and Saudi under the bus. That's how geopolitics works, there's no eternal friend, and no permanent enemy.
The saudis will kill you in your own house or when theres a sleep over. Example: 9/11, Khobar tower bombing. With friends like them who needs terrorists!
Well that's geopolitics
Sound is a lot better in this setting
I see Peter!! Where are the mountains??
I love your channel, by the way.
Haha most of the comments are about him being inside instead of being on a hike. When comments should really be what he was actually telling us. I love this guy he is like a free university.
I like his map, but I still can't find New Zealand...
U are on spot
Peter, could you give us any kind of updates regarding Venezuela?
MBS is also trying to build a playground for the rich to park money and themselves in. US troops stationed close to "The Line" city would make a lot of those people feel a lot safer in that part of the world. I imagine money from Israel flowing into that city would be welcomed, if they felt safe being there.
Having done a decade and a half in the Middle East... NEVER invite the Palestinians to any negotiation.
LOL Well, the Palestinians are the “WSHTF hot mess” in all of this
Ty
I'm in Colorado, didn't find you in the mountains
As someone living in israel what they are trying to do is different then israel was initially trying to make a deal with other muslim countries because the palastians are not making any deal with us
You 2 are both adults, figure it out.
Almost always need to pay attention to pick up on the little things you say. Thank you for doing this stuff!
Nice to see you indoors but you spoiled us with those views! 😊❤
Where did he find a studio in the middle of the woods?
In today's world, post-Afghanistan conflict, post-Covid; it's hard to see what the US policy in the Middle East would even look like. I didn't think Saudi Arabia was very happy with foreigners near holy sites either. Without a compelling motivation for all parties, it would create more instability.
G’day Peter, how do you see the long term effects of the Panama Canal reducing trade due to the drought not providing enough water to operate at full capacity?
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