6/20/2023 0 Comments Blood and oil by bradley hopeThe decades-long US-Saudi alliance didn’t mean much to Trump and his deputies, and many of the old officials who kept that alliance going for both sides, men like Mohammed bin Nayef and former CIA director John Brennan, had been sent off to retirement, or worse. But as Trump showed Mohammed in that embarrassing White House visit, when the president displayed a poster board showing arms sales to the kingdom, this new White House was purely transactional. Mohammed had high hopes that Donald Trump, with his visit to the kingdom early in his presidency, would renew the kind of relationship Saudi Arabia had under previous presidents. Then Barack Obama made the nuclear deal with Iran, alienating Saudi leaders. Blood and Oil Mohammed Bin Salmans Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck. The American economy wasn’t dependent on Saudi oil anymore. Blood and Oil by Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck, 2020, Little, Brown Book Group Limited edition, in English. Buy Blood and Oil by Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. The spread of fracking turned the United States into the world’s biggest oil producer by 2013. “Things changed radically between the early 1990s and 2019.
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