October 7, 2015
THE RUSSO-ARAB WAR:
Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Prices Amid OPEC Price War (BENOIT FAUCON, Oct. 4, 2015, WSJ)
Saudi Arabia on Sunday made deep reductions to the prices it charges for its oil, hard on the heels of cuts last month by rival producers in the Gulf.With U.S. production still increasing despite lower oil prices, members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries are battling to keep their share of the last growing markets in Asia.
Déjà vu? Saudi clerics declare jihad on Russia (Bruce Riedel, October 7, 2015, Brookings)
In a statement harkening back to the war against the Soviet Union 36 years ago in Afghanistan, fifty-five Saudi Wahhabi clerics have signed a call for jihad against Russia for its military intervention in Syria. America and the West are accused of colluding with Moscow by only pretending to support the Syrian opposition since 2011. The statement is not an official document of the Kingdom, but it undoubtedly has much support in the House of Saud.
Could Putin's Syria folly be working any better for us?
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 7, 2015 1:35 PM
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