Unintended consequences?

Most of the Gulf Kingdoms could find themselves "regime changed" by their own people if Iran disrupts the governments and their defense capabilities.

Most people forget that most of them resemble medieval absolute monarchies where the majority are dirt poor holding on by simple virtue of having the most guns and perceived American protection.

If those perceptions are shattered and the majority see blood in the water groups like the Saudi regime might be looking at revolts in their own countries.

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sree251 · 41-45, M

The Gulf Kingdoms are artificial monarchies set up and propped up by the Brits. They are no different from the Sultanate of Brunei. The Sultan is given ownership of a strip of land with 1.8 billion barrels of oil reserves. Royal Dutch Shell runs the operation and pays him royalties forevermore. He splits his stash with his citizens by giving them jobs in the government. All they had to do is read newspaper and drink tea until lunchtime when they go home for lunch and don't come back. Any dissident will be fired. Foreign workers are hired on contract do the work keeping the public infrastructure running. Any complainant will be fired. It's the same deal in all the Gulf Kingdoms where the US keep military bases. Nation states that don't come to heel are pounded into submission. Iran is the latest in a long line of miscreants like Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen.

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@sree251 So called social justice is always a pretext. Nobody in the US power structures actually gives a shit about the plight of the people. But it makes a very politically effective excuse.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@sree251[@ sree251] If we are talking about Reagan's bombing of Libya, the excuse I remember was the alleged involvement of Libya in the terrorist placement of a bomb that downed an airliner over Scotland.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@dancingtongue

If we are talking about Reagan's bombing of Libya, the excuse I remember was the alleged involvement of Libya in the terrorist placement of a bomb that downed an airliner over Scotland.

You are referring to the Lockerbie bombing. Who made the allegation? Perhaps the allegation could have been different if there had been an entirely Scottish police investigation, with unrestricted access to all available information, without interference or manipulation from outside. Instead, from the beginning, the investigation and what were to become the most important aspects of the prosecution case against al-Megrahi were hijacked. Within hours, the countryside around Lockerbie was occupied: local people helping with the search under the supervision of Dumfries and Galloway police realised to their astonishment that the terrain was dotted with unidentified Americans not under the command of the local police.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

It's a possibility.

The Arab spring...in reverse !

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