Also, we should not be surprised if the rest of the documents will be declassified when, for various reasons, there will be an acute need of war with Saudi Arabia.
Well if the US does go to war with Saudi Arabia, I hope it's an economic one. Stuff like funding electric cars and clean energy to cut off Saudi Arabia's oil money. But that's probably not going to happen.
As I said below, what if the leadership of Saudi Arabia is seized by some hostile factions which attack the US & EU interests in the area ? What if these factions denounce the US - Saudi alliance and switch sides demanding help from the Chinese ? You think US & EU would place sanctions and wait like they do with the Russians ? I think US & EU would pull out all the files (support for terrorism, human rights abuses, democracy, yada, yada) they have against "ex-Saudi" Arabia and punch their way in before the Chinese move an inch.
> Also, we should not be surprised if the rest of the documents will be declassified when, for various reasons, there will be an acute need of war with Saudi Arabia.
There will never be a war with KSA. This place is way too sensitive even the US wouldn't dare touch it. It would be an instant war with the Muslim world. The US has other ways to pressure KSA if needed. I don't think anybody in the US would be that foolish and attack the Mecca .
Maybe I'm naive, but I think there are contingency plans for (almost) everything. Imagine for example there is a coup in KSA and "the bad guys" end up in power and they do crazy things with "our fuel".
Place Mecca & Medina under international Muslim custodianship* , and then proceed with your war plans. You realize that those two cities constitute only a small geographic area of the Hijaz region let alone the whole Arabia?
*: BTW this is an actual demand of Iran and many other predominantly Muslim countries to have the Islamic holy sites under int'l custodianship and not be treated as part of House of Saud's possessions as it seems the case with time passing while these people in power.
A union of Muslim-majority countries. Let the Muslims decide who control and oversee their holy sites. These are not House of Saud's possessions and shouldn't be treated as such.
