Vocal International, out of Brussels, Belgium, has brought me in as a writer and a member of the board of trustees.
They focus on news as it is related to European lives and have mainly been assigning me pieces concerning the Middle East and its relationships to Europe, the West, and Israel.
My most recent article, entitled, Saudi Arabia to Go Nuclear, is 700 words and is concerned with the recent Russian-Saudi nuclear agreement wherein Russia will build, and help maintain, up to sixteen nuclear reactors in the Saudi Peninsula.
Here is a tid-bit:
My suspicion – and it is only a suspicion – is that the Russian-Saudi deal is, at least in part, a reaction to the nuclear deal that United States President Barack Obama hopes to shortly conclude with Iran. Analysts are predicting that Obama’s Iran nuke deal will fuel a nuclear arms race throughout the Middle East and, in all likelihood, this is what we are looking at. It could be that the primary motivation of the Saudis is simple economics. By building nuclear facilities for domestic energy consumption they can sell more oil on the international market. What is also quite likely, however, is that Saudi Arabia, like Iran, has cast its eye on the potential for a nuclear weapon. It seems highly unlikely that Sunni-controlled Saudi Arabia, not to mention Sunni-controlled Egypt, is going to look kindly upon a Shia bomb in the neighborhood.You can read the piece in its entirety here.
