Peter Zeihan

I'm not going to say they're unimportant because that would just be rude.

But the idea that Saudi Arabia is an ally is a real stretch.

And I'm not just saying that because Mohammed bin Salman ordered the dismemberment and cooking of a journalist and then used the same barbecue pit for a diplomatic party for 300 people later that day.

Jamal Khashoggi as well.

They, I mean, they didn't eat him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Cooked him.

They dismembered him.

They put him in a giant barbecue pit.

They burned all the evidence.

And then later that day...

they held a diplomatic barbecue event using that barbecue pit to make sure they could destroy all the forensic evidence.

Uh,

The rulers of Saudi Arabia are literally the house of Saud.

It's a family.

And MBS is a member of that family.

And King Abdullah of old was part of that family.

And it is this family that created the global jihadist movement that the world has had so much heartburn with.

It is this family who their support created things like Al Qaeda and ISIS and

And is indirectly, at worst, responsible for things like the 9-11 attacks.