05 September 2018

Quote of the Day

Unless you are like Saudi Arabia sitting on the bulk of the world reserve of ‘spice’, you cannot really afford being crazy asshole and still remain in long durable alliances.
From a comment posted by Shafiq R at September 5, 2018 at 3:21 am (the literary reference is to Frank Herbert's "Dune" series).

2 comments:

Dave Barnes said...

You do realize that Dune is an allegorical reference to Saudi Arabia?

andrew said...

Yes. Well, at least, to Middle Eastern/North African oil monarchies, I wouldn't necessarily say Saudi Arabia in particular.