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Originally posted by tantalus View Postsomeone give me a brief run down on the potential significance please, with the assumption of full ignorance.
sounds like it could be a straight forward change of hands...
Saudi king just died. There's a new king. We don't know what he will do. Maybe continue with the old policies? Maybe something new. We just don't know.
Financial world is very sensitive to anything unexpected. A bunch of fund managers might sell tomorrow to protect their gains from today. Or they might not. I hope there's a big selloff tomorrow."Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.
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Originally posted by tantalus View Postsomeone give me a brief run down on the potential significance please, with the assumption of full ignorance.
sounds like it could be a straight forward change of hands...
But you're having a change in power for one of the major regional powerbrokers when they have three civil wars going on at states surrounding them.
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I would expect an orderly transition of power to Salman as the process had started some time ago. He's 79 years old, so I don't expect a lot of radical reforms. Allowing women to drive would be nice.
He's inheriting a lot of problems to be sure, tumbling oil prices and anarchy in Yemen not the least among them.
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Originally posted by tantalus View Postsomeone give me a brief run down on the potential significance please, with the assumption of full ignorance.
sounds like it could be a straight forward change of hands...sigpic
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There is an opportunity here.For the Caliphate to take Mecca,Medina and plenty of oil.Because the Saudi armed forces aren't much better than Iraqis or Syrians.While the population of KSA is psychologically closer to the Caliphate than the rest.Wahhabism has been their bread and water and it's the sort of Islam the Caliphate preaches and practices.Those who know don't speak
He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. Luke 22:36
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There are two successors, both old. In ten to fifteen years they are going to have to move to the next generation. That's when things will get VERY interesting.In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.
Leibniz
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From what I read of the new chappie Salman, thinks are probably oing to move backwards from whatever "reforms" Abdullah had initiated.
But this bit, from UK, confused the heck out of me.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e3af79c-a...#axzz3PnyL53U6
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The British government’s decision to fly flags at half mast to mark the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has been widely criticised, with one MP calling it “an extraordinary misjudgment”."Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" ~ Epicurus
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