{"id":1771,"date":"2016-05-06T00:28:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2016-05-06T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T00:28:15","slug":"no-more-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/no-more-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"No more Saudi Arabia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing this video barely hints at: the possibility that the western world may soon cut its ties with Saudi Arabia and the other hateful, Stone Age oil-producing countries of the Middle East that we now have to pretend we&#8217;re friends with. We can leave it all to ISIS or Al Qaeda. The Israelis can take care of themselves. We can finally stop going to war over there. When their oil becomes as valueless as their sand, we can rejoice. 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