Reply #2: bet the House of Saud won't last

[McKenzie]

can't find my links just now but the consensus is that the House of Saud is in terminal decline. The issue for the west is what replaces it. I suppose the US could use geopolitical strategy to plant a friendly regime to ensure continued access to the strategic oil reserve. However, there is, apparently, growing unrest amongst younger men over there...methinks this could, as bemildred says, get mighty interesting.