Odessa Dawn
Key Member
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2012
- Location
- Saudi Arabia
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Arabic
- Home Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Current Location
- Saudi Arabia
"But it’s not just the survival of the Khalifa regime that is at stake. It’s the entire US-backed order of Arab monarchies which has been in place for over six decades, and which is now showing cracks in the dam. This order has historically guaranteed the West a reliable source of oil; and more recently it is crucial to shoring up the bankrupt petrodollar system that Anglo-American global capitalism depends on."
More: PressTV - Bahrain uprising threatens US hegemony
Is the closet in meaning to the underlined part; starting to lose power, control is being relinquished, things are getting worse, no more hegemony, or no more united front?
More: PressTV - Bahrain uprising threatens US hegemony
Is the closet in meaning to the underlined part; starting to lose power, control is being relinquished, things are getting worse, no more hegemony, or no more united front?