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About-Face! Saudi Arabia inks new deals with Russia








In Riyadh, there’s a new king in town; and he is a very different man than his brother before him. After shaking up the government and replacing the heads of Saudi Arabia’s two corporate behemoths (SABIC & Saudi Aramco), his new majesty seems to have the right people in place to carry out what seems to be an entirely new set of policies. Case in point was this past Thursday’s meeting in St. Petersburg where President Putin received the Deputy Crown Prince and Saudi Defense Minister Muhammad bin Salman (son of the king), along with Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and the all-powerful Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi. The two sides signed a total of six new cooperation agreements that included the nuclear and military spheres. June 20








The current New Moon at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is placed in the mundane 7th house of “enemies” [1]. In his commentary   “Creative Initiative & the Horns of the Bull” on the New Moon, Nick Fiorenza writes:

The Mars-New Moon, on the cusp of sidereal Taurus-Gemini, conjoins  Al Hecka of Taurus.
Al Hecka, Zeta Taurus, the south horn, is of stalemates, standoffs, and brick walls—fighting old and antiquated crusades—particularly of a religious-political nature—and blindly or automatically continuing the fight out of habitual pattern even though the original purpose behind what we were fighting for is long gone. Al Hecka can express as beating one’s head against the wall, a relentless and futile pursuit. Al Hecka brings attention to when the accomplishment pursued is of a time no longer applicable—the time to surrender the physical struggle and move onward into a field of mutual cooperation.

This elegantly summarizes the change taking place in Saudi Arabia’s attitude towards Russia.



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