Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "President Donald Trump Weighs In On Saudi Cover Up Of Jamal Khashoggi Murder | NBC Nightly News" video.

  1. This is why you don't support such regimes with American made weapons. End the killings in Yemen and end all sales of spare parts for those F-16's and any other military hardware to Saudi Arabia. We don't need their oil. Let them drink it with their favorite morning paper.
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  2. Hardly we don't import that much Saudi oil to begin with. Making Saudi Arabia a pariah country like South Africa is certainly an option has the rest of the world has. How many foreign workers do you have in Saudi Arabia? Do you think they're is going to be supporters of the regime? The American working people value free speech and free press. That is why Trump is walking a tightrope on this issue. Most of us want to throw up after hearing this.
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  3. US Dollars and Treasury bonds are mere paper or electrons in a computer. The tiny ruling classes in the US and Saudi Arabia are only powerful as long as the workers allow them to be. For the Saudi Arabia ruling class to create a currency crisis in dollars would be the same thing as cutting your own throats.
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  4. Go ahead and open a Russian base. Then you will be under Russian control. Good Luck keeping those F-16E's and C-135 flying gas stations in the air with metric parts along with other US military hardware. The US ruling class wasn't and isn't afraid of Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khomeini, or Nicolás Maduro. Why should they fear the Saudi Prince? Pulling out investment? You don't really think they are going to let you actually remove any physical capital do you? That like causing a currency would only hasten your and their demise.
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  5. They aren't going to attack with a war right now because the Saudi Arabia rulers provide one of the masks behind US power in the region. However they will have no problem with cutting their losses if necessary. That's why they have sent in the CIA Director to help them decide what to do. They had no problem with Saddam attacking the Iranian revolution but once he decide he was a power unto himself and took Kuwait his days were numbered. They told him in very real words surrender or die.
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  6. They are not going to let you commit suicide and destroy everything like you threaten.
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