Iraq just hit Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline. From Riyadh's angle, this is the closing bracket on a catastrophe entirely manufactured by American foreign policy. The Strait of Hormuz, their main export route north: sealed off by an Iran war the US and Israel started. Their pipeline south to Iraq: destroyed by a country the US already broke with another war. Yemen: they're losing to the Houthis, and that insurgency reignited because of the US-Israel conflict with Iran. The US won't even defend them there anymore, just watches them bleed. They're hemorrhaging money covering losses from wars they didn't start. Soon they might have to sell US Treasuries instead of buying them, the dollar recycling scheme that used to bankroll American dominance. The US calls it "economic outcast" on Iran. The Saudis are learning they got outcasted too, except they're not built to survive it like Iran is. Saudi Arabia bet everything on America. That bet is visibly collapsing.