BREAKING: Cold War-era Wahhabism used as tool against Soviets. Saudi Arabia Admits

[Brian37]

OP: If you'd (your nation/state) give up religion all together then you couldn't be manipulated and used as a tool.

The religious have always been manipulated

BINGO, and every religion in every nation has powers that even pit sect against sect. 

Which is why our founders, especially Jefferson insisted on a "wall" between church and state.

[The Grand Nudger]

What changed is that he can wage economical war on western countries like Canada, publicly.
In other words; this act was impossible in the previous months. Matter in fact, without the U.S's current protection of MBS, he wouldn't had commit this insane act of aggression against Canada.

Economic skullfuckery and preening is always an option between countries.  Don't be so naive.

Wake up, Trump is destroying the west and one day trash like MBS will fly planes into your cities. That's what changed.

The world changed. That's what happened in the previous months.

Neither of those things suddenly became true in the last three months, Atlas.  The first has been true since day one of a presidency, and the latter has always been true.

[ReptilianPeon]

Also, isn't MBS just trying to "make Saudi Arabia great again"?

[WinterHold]

Aren't these the same group of people that had King Faisal murdered because he thought that the Saudi Kingdom could benefit from having a television station? The royalty of today make King Feisal sound reasonable, perhaps? Arabia used to be so much more secular!

No. The assassin is Saudi, but the minds that made the plan for him are not.
Just like 9/11 and how almost 50% blame Israel or the U.S government for it by now; question is when are people going to learn? when nukes begin to hit??



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_po...y_theories

Faisal was a Saudi king; corrupted just like the other Saudi kings. But a little bit smarter and more cunning. He wasn't a reformer or a hero, rather another monster from the family of monsters and freaks. He just knew how to play ball with the international community.