I’d the moral of this story that Russia needs to get better at playing ball with the USA? Cause I mean- if you don’t realize why a major global power player lets one country get away with things they won’t let another get away with… I’ll make it simple for you. Personal gain. The same reason your kids or spouse or family or best friends can get away with things you wouldn’t let a stranger do. Not a lot of parents have their own kids arrested for stealing little things or sue them for scratching the car etc. if a stranger took your expensive camera without asking and sold it you’d probably call the cops but how many parents have had similar stories with their own kids?
When I put it like that it seems a bit too obvious doesn’t it? “Duh” you might say. Well yeah. Duh. This isn’t really a foreign concept or something you need to be an international diplomat or poli-sci major to grasp. Most people are more likely to forgive things from people who benefit them more than people who benefit them less or are actively working against their interests. You speed and it’s ok. Maybe your friend speeds and it’s ok. A stranger speeds and they are a menace. You can hate XYZ behaviors but when a friend or someone you rely on for support is guilty you’ll justify why they are different or how what they are doing isn’t the same or is ok circumstantially. Russia and China have expressed the same global ambitions as the US and Saudi Arabia has not.
The Royal elite that control the resources we want in that region are largely content to stay in their backyard and reap the benefits of their wealth and resources. They mostly limit their meddling in global affairs to manipulations to maximize their profitability and safeguard their continued ability to exploit the resources in the area to live it up. If they keep fuel flowing and prices to where our economy can bear them, there isn’t a threat to American ambition. China and Russia do not want to stay in their backyard and they are not able or content to rely primarily on economic manipulation to safeguard them against foreign aggression or see their will done. They want to set standards and guide the global culture. They want to actively expand and they want to gain the advantage economically to leverage it against the USA and others. That is counter to American ambitions and so of course there is a problem there.
Put simply, Saudi Arabia is like a vampire that drinks a little blood here and there from many people to keep its strength. It had a castle and riches and is content to live there in opulence and in exchange provide its gifts to those who facilitate this. Russia is a vampire that sucks every victim dry or turns them into powerless thralls and wants to conquer the world with these puppet husks. Its hunger can never be filled. And that’s a problem because America is a Lazy warlock that sits in its fortress of solitude with wine and da ding women crafting new illusions and clockwork machines to amuse itself. Content to do so as long as all the surrounding peoples let it do whatever it feels like and provide the tribute to sustain its lazy opulent lifestyle. If the vampires take over the world the warlock won’t have people to provide the tributes of food and materials or needs to craft its spells and fill its belly.
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