some way he can blame someone and gain some of his popularity back. Otherwise there is an extreme risk that he will start a war and that could be with any of our allies, I doubt very much that he will start it directly with one of us, more like an intensifying of a proxy war in Syria, or Iraq, but you never know.
King of Saudi Arabia- Wow I had not quite expected such a radical approach but do agree on the need for extreme action. I was thinking of exciting international tensions but indeed they are already high and that would be dangerous with The President of Americain this position.
Starting a war against a popular enemy would almost ensure him election victory as normally only a good US economy does. I am sure he knows that, and he will be in great danger of not having a good economy by November if we try to solve the Oil price. He could easily use Iran for example as it has been many years considered as troublesome and terrorist by the Americans. They are already in quite stressed relations and I’m sure he could easily turn that into a war which would devastate the rest of the Middle East, killing millions by it’s terrible consequences and leaving millions homeless, in any case as indeed Syria has, as well as Iraq but that didn’t stop them.
President of Russia- How well this will pay-out is exceedingly difficult to say. It’s going to be a long and difficult road and we will lose billions if not trillions in the short term but I think that there is no alternative but to go into a form of commercial war rather than any form of actual war. In actual war not only would we lose many trillions of dollars but also thousands of millions of people would die both in the actual war, the aftermath and all the effects of it.
To illustrate what I mean it is not a coincidence that the Spanish flu that we talk about so much each possible pandemic, occurred after the First World War and affected one third of the world population at that time killing twenty to fifty million people, out of one point five billion world population. If a similar thing was to occur after a war now, because the world population is 6.9 billion then it’s easy to see it around 2 1/2 billion people would be affected out of which we can expect up to 250 million dead. I think because of population density and other effects more like 4 billion would be affected and the death toll could be 400 million.
Of course, during the war and after many millions will also die of hunger and exposure.
This would make the first and Second World wars and the Spanish Flue Pandemic seem like a little tryst, the death toll would also be high as the health systems would not be in good shape either after a physical war.
Obviously even the economic effects of what we’re doing would also have tragic effects on many countries, meaning many millions of dead but we’re talking about millions of dead rather than 10s hundreds or thousands of millions of dead. I therefore think we are doing a really good thing. I hope I can count on your support by discreetly, absolutely discreetly, formulating the plans with your allies I will keep you informed and agree with you some wording of statements and actions over the coming months so that you can best prepare yourself, muster your resources and lose as little as possible.
King of Saudi Arabia- I have on many occasions enjoyed the support of Russia much better than the continued and enduring support that I get from America, as the American support always seems to come with conditions that makes it extremely beneficial for America and not extremely beneficial to me. If it were not absolutely necessary for me, I would not take the American help.
I trust you also as an ally and will do my absolute best to make this form of economic conflict finally decisive I could never do anything like the scale of this on my own.
I realise that Saudi will always require powerful allies as the entire GDP of the Middle East is only the size of the GDP of one European country alone. I therefore understand that I could not have any long-term resistance or effective resistance to the world powers even in economic terms alone never mind military. It seems to me like a very modern mode of war and in fact has parallels with the European Union ruling Europe, with a few key countries and all the rest must follow because of finance and Laws. Perhaps at some point in the future we can come to a (more equal) version of a similar thing.
Although we have always been small in economy and military strength, I remember in the days before a diversified Oil industry. Oil was the worlds soft underbelly and many great countries were vulnerable without Oil supply from the middle east. In 1973 for example when indeed OPEC had enough market share to have effective control over the Oil price and could indeed bring countries to their knees with the help of other wider Arab relationships.
Even though the Europeans and Americans ensured continued turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, with the installation of rulers like the shah of Iran and Saddam Hussein to mention but two, who were Westernised and Militarised by them. The ensuing war with Iran and Iraq lasting 10 years and supplies for it being bought by both sides from the same suppliers, meaning among others the Western powers. This crippled 2 of the strongest Arab nations for many years and constant interference has certainly meant that the Middle East could never be unified or become a cohesive entity by ensuring that the religious and political poles that exist were not ever resolved and that conflict has been an almost constant situation in the Middle East and North Africa.
These facts not to mention the effect the (mainly American) constant support to the state of Israel has on the region and conflicts. If one looks now to the war in Syria and the constant suffering of the refugees and misplaced people. The constant bombing and ruining of most of the country’s infrastructure along with the polarised population who after years like this will probably never reunite and reweld. Many of the best and most capable will have left the country and most of the infrastructure will have gone. The education level will be much lower and any trust in government and the military will have gone too.
I do therefore think that this could be the start of a way to move away from conflicts with the dominant countries. Manipulating world economies using a more economic method of war if you like, that does much less overall damage to people. I think your vision might work but we need to work at it so if you keep in contact and we agree actions. I will do my upmost inshallah to meet the targets as a start to this brave new future. Goodbye.
President of Russia – Goodbye. I will call you again in 4 weeks’ time, I probably do not need to say this but please do not breathe a word of this to the West, we need the element of surprise. That should not be hard with Europe who view the Middle East as unimportant and far away except where refugees are concerned or of America as the President is generally too busy watching himself (in the mirror or on TV), playing at being big and tough, and looking for praise whilst declaring himself a Genius, to do any serious work. He does not look in detail at issues with cause and effect analysis of future consequence provisions. We should also use the fact that he never listens to his Advisors but just does what he thinks would be popular with his supporters with a direct view to getting re-elected. He could not abide, not getting his second term and he will do anything to get it.
I believe we should therefore give him the opportunity to do that and have also a weak president for a further four years which by the end of that time should mean we have made major progress.
BIGGEST EVER LOCK DOWN AND LOCK DOWN CONFUSION
After the initial discussions between three key players the situation developed at a rapid pace. Shortly after the first conversation in December, by the end of December China who had been saying
