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Doesn’t the CDS blowing up contradict your assertion that watchers were expecting this and this is not out of the ordinary?
well for one thing, CDS does not blow “up”, it blows “out.”
but beyond that, pull up a three-year chart of Saudi CDS and look at where we were in January 2016 after Riyadh had just reported a record deficit and after the execution of Nimr al-Nimr led directly to the actual torching of the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
that should answer your question.
also, you are grossly misconstruing my argument.
finally, this isn’t something I am going to discuss with you any further here or anywhere else for that matter, because I already know what you’re inclined to do. you’re inclined to take every, single piece of incremental information and believe it’s evidence to support a theory you have that is based not on real academic research, but on things you’ve read on conspiracy threads and conspiracy websites which you mistakenly think are “news” sources. and here’s the thing: you are not unique in that regard. people like you are all over the place. there’s an entire economy built around the voracious American appetite for that kind of spin.
I can do that too. I can, for instance, go out into my front yard and discover that there are considerably more acorns in it than there were yesterday on the way to concluding that the squirrels are up to something. they probably are up to something, assuming there’s some connection to the acorns and the squirrels, but the thing is, whatever it is they’re up to is in all likelihood readily explainable by the way squirrels behave. it is not a squirrel conspiracy any more than anything else squirrels do is a conspiracy. maybe they are agitated because sometimes squirrels get agitated. maybe that’s what they do when they are hoarding food for the winter (i.e. shake the acorns onto the ground and then go pick them up). maybe November is a time when squirrels fight and their tree battles dislodged the acorns. so yes, there is a sense in which it is true that “something is up” with the squirrels and the acorns, but that needs to be put in the context of how squirrels normally act and what generally happens to acorns around those actions.
here’s a great resource for you: https://scholar.google.com/
note the “scholar” prefix. that’s Google’s search tool for peer-reviewed, academic journal articles. as in: actual, real research conducted by actual real academics.
click there, enter the search terms for the geopolitical topics you are interested in, and read to your heart’s content. if you find information there to support your theories, well then *now* you have something.
here are two quotes from WaPo which demonstrate what I’m talking about:
“Viewing Lebanon as an ideological battleground for Saudi-Iranian rivalry is neither new nor unprecedented”
“Although Hariri’s self-orchestrated departure caught the world by surprise, there is nothing shocking about the move.”
see what I mean? that underscores my main point, which is this: “consequential” and “sudden” are *not* the same thing as “new” and “unprecedented.”
in the case of the purge, “unprecedented” in terms of *scope* and *brazenness* does not equate to “inexplicable”