#realpolitik

#realpolitik

They couldn't have been more wrong. Money is money, oil is oil, and Saudi Arabia is a country that is large, influential, and powerful in the Middle East and the world. So Bin Salman or MBS, as he is popularly known only had to wait for the storm of controversy to subside so that the current of realpolitik could return things to normal.

Do not believe those who say they have voluntarily relinquished power and position for love of peace and quiet. Nearly always, their reason was either levity or necessity. Experience shows that, as soon as they are offered a chance to return to the former life, they leave behind their much vaunted peace and quiet, and seize it with the same fury that fire seizes dry or oily things.