<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/10/20/saudi-oil-production-cut/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter">https://theintercept.com/2022/10/20/saudi-oil-production-cut/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SwiftNeueLTW01,Georgia,serif;font-size:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px">"...MBS is even more Putinian than Putin?"</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">The implications of this deceptively simple wording are vast!  For example:</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/15/a-fist-bump-at-the-palace-biden-squares-off-with-mbs-00046106">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/15/a-fist-bump-at-the-palace-biden-squares-off-with-mbs-00046106</a><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><h2 class="gmail-headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:-0.05rem;line-height:1;font-family:din-2014,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">"Biden fist bump with MBS triggers backlash"</font></h2></div><div><font size="4">----------------------------</font></div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SwiftNeueLTW01,Georgia,serif;font-size:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px"><br></span></div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SwiftNeueLTW01,Georgia,serif;font-size:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Short excerpt from the Intercept article:</span></div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SwiftNeueLTW01,Georgia,serif;font-size:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px"><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:SwiftNeueLTW01,Georgia,serif;font-size:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px"><br></span></div>Saudi Arabia, a putative ally, pushed for even deeper cuts than what Russia, a U.S. adversary, even believed they could get away with, the sources said. “People in D.C. think MBS is siding with Putin, but I think <b><i>MBS is even more Putinian than Putin,” </i></b>one of the sources, a Saudi close to the royal family, said, referring to Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.</span><br></div>