Top 3 reasons why Saudi Arabia will see instability and a possible coup soon:

 Trying to Reverse Islamic Radicalism

 Saudi prince MbS is trying to abruptly change the religious norms. After 40 years of Wahhabi extremism, you can’t just go “moderate” with a flip of a switch

 Disastrous foreign policy failures

 couldn’t overthrow Assad in Syria after spending tens of billions of dollars since 2011

 couldn’t defeat Houthis in Yemen

 meddling in Lebanon was a big flop (remember holding the Lebanese president hostage in Saudi Arabia and forcing him to resign on Saudi TV?)

 couldn’t defeat Hezbollah

 being a total puppet of Israel

 needless conflict with Qatar. The blockade and the ultimatums failed and now Qatar is more dependent on Iran than ever before.

 Mistreatment of Powerful Saudi Elites

 arresting billionaires, torturing and humiliating them and extorting billions of dollars from them will earn a lot of enemies

 MbS (Mohammad bin Salman)  violated the rule of consensus and got rid of the real successor to the throne. There are now lots of unhappy Royal family members in Saudi Arabia

 

Author: Chris Kanthan    Please check out my book “Deconstructing the Syrian War”