The cold, hard realism of Saudi hedging

When the missiles began arcing across the Persian Gulf in late February, falling on Riyadh’s Eastern Province as well as on American bases in Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE, the editorial pages in Washington reached for a familiar refrain: now, surely, the Saudis would have to choose. The Iran war, we were told, would clarify […] The post The cold, hard realism of Saudi hedging appeared first on Asia Times .