17-04-2016, 11:16 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:Why is the NY Times, of all US newspapers running this story? What's the underlying deep story? A few years ago the NYT and WP wouldn't have even considered running this.
If in doubt, or merely confused, as most of us are most of the time, I find it helps to reverse engineer the problem. Looked at from a very different angle, it would appear to be about the US putting pressure on the Saudis.
To what ends (there are always more than one) though?
Take your pick. But given the nature to the threat to the Saudis, and its timing, I think Washington is offering Riyadh a choice - commit certain suicide by release of the report or take your chances by doing as we want on a broad range of policies utterly disastrous for the House of S.
The timing would suggest a warning about the imminent launch of the gold-backed yuan.
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