Ben Shapiro

Saudi is trying to split the baby, being half American, half Chinese.

It's not going to work.

UAE already broke from OPEC.

People missed what a huge development this is.

OPEC

which, again, was a gigantic cartel designed to restrict oil supply coming from the Middle East.

UAE, Saudi, they were all a part of it.

UAE said, no, we're not doing that anymore.

We're now going to produce oil how we want to produce oil.

And they're going to take those oil winnings and they're going to invest them in tech, in military, industrial, in cooperation with Israel rather than opposition to Israel.

If Saudi goes the way of China, they will be on the wrong side of this particular battle.

Now, a lot has changed.

Democrats today even concede that China is a geopolitical opponent of the United States.

This has become a pretty bipartisan issue.

And the effect on China has been, again, very, very, very bad.

Their nominal GDP is $15,000 per capita.

That is way behind the United States, way, way, way behind the United States.

They've even been having to abandon some of their biggest initiatives.

So you remember a dozen years ago, they were talking about this thing called Belt and Road.

This is their big thing, Belt and Road.