The Saudi Problem

Saudi Arabia is a terrible country that invades its neighbors, represses human rights, and spreads an extremist ideology, known as Wahhabism, that helps drive the majority of Sunni Jihadism today. Yet the United States and our European allies continue to moderately support this outright criminal state and out economy is still reliant on Saudi Arabian oil which has recently flooded the market and has caused many American oil companies to go bankrupt which are causing oil boom states such as North Dakota and Oklahoma to head towards recession.

Arm Sales to Saudi Arabia

Other concerns arise from Saudi Arabia from their proxy war with Iran which could lead to even more widespread conflict in the Middle East, that would likely drag America back into a new ground war, to their alleged role in the 9/11 attacks, which may be revealed in the coming weeks.

There are more reasons why Saudi Arabia is a terrible place such as this:

World's Leader in Incest!

There seems to be some minimal progress from the Obama administration in reducing our ties with the Saudis, and most of the 2016 candidates seem to be anti-Saudi. Unfortunately that doesn't mean the candidate most likely to win doesn't support the Saudis though, quite the opposite.

The Saudis will reap what they sow in one form or another. Their thing for incest already has them near the top in the rates for birth defects for one thing. Their war in Yemen against the Houthis has been a failure so far by all measure. The Saudi state itself is at an increasing risk of upheaval and political strife, such as seen in Egypt and Syria could be around the corner. Even their flooding of the oil market to kill competition has made their own economy both non-diverse and unstable which could lead to their own economy collapsing. Their oil profits might also come back to bite in the form of increased temperatures over 140 degrees Fahrenheit due to anthropogenic climate change in the region which would be pretty intolerable for human life. 

Why wait for the inevitable though? So do we end arm sales, embargo Saudi oil, end all military assistance, or even cut ties altogether? Cutting ties goes too far in my opinion as American foreign relations need to be bilateral with all nations, even with nations that don't see eye-to-eye, especially with nations that don't see eye-to-eye. However I do believe the end of arm sales and military cooperation with the Saudis can and should end without major consequences. The harder thing to do for America is to embargo Saudi oil as the American economy is still somewhat reliant on oil prices. Yet it is probably the best thing for America in the longterm, not only by strengthening America's energy independence and cutting funds to the Wahhabi fundamentalists (aka terrorists), but by giving America bargaining chips if Saudi Arabia reforms out of the backwards totalitarian petro-state that it is currently into something that is at least not despicable.