{"id":308298,"date":"2017-05-15T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-trump-cozies-up-to-saudi-arabia-war-with-iran-becomes-more-likely\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:16:41","slug":"as-trump-cozies-up-to-saudi-arabia-war-with-iran-becomes-more-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-trump-cozies-up-to-saudi-arabia-war-with-iran-becomes-more-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump Cozies Up to Saudi Arabia, War With Iran Becomes More Likely"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many people view Donald Trump<\/a> as the most dangerous man on the planet, but next week he flies to Saudi Arabia<\/a> for a three-day visit during which he will meet a man who surely runs him a close second as a source of instability. This is deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman<\/a>, 31 \u2013 the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia since his father King Salman, 81, is incapacitated by old age \u2013 who has won a reputation for impulsiveness, aggression and poor judgement in the two-and-half years he has held power. Early on he escalated the Saudi role in Syria, thereby helping to precipitate Russian military intervention, and initiated a war in Yemen that is still going on and has reduced 17 million people to the brink of famine. Combine his failings with those of Trump, a man equally careless or ignorant about the consequence of his actions, and you have an explosive mixture threatening the most volatile region on earth.<\/p>\n

Prince Mohammed, who is also defence minister, is not a man who learns from his mistakes or even notices that he has made them. Less than a year after his father became king in January 2015, the BND German intelligence agency issued a warning that Saudi Arabia had adopted \u201can impulsive policy of intervention\u201d abroad and blamed this on the deputy crown prince whom it portrayed as a na\u00efve political gambler. The degree of alarm within the BND about his impact on the region must have been high for them to release such a document which was…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Walter | CC BY 2.0 Many people view Donald Trump as the most dangerous man on the planet, but next week he flies to Saudi Arabia for a three-day visit during which he will meet a man who surely runs him a close second as a source of instability. This is deputy crown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}