https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-libya/russia-libya-seal-debt-accord-eye-arms-deals-idUSSHC61895920080417 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-lib

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-libya/russia-libya-seal-debt-accord-eye-arms-deals-idUSSHC61895920080417 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-libya/russia-libya... (2008) "Russia agreed to cancel $4.5 billion of Libyan debt on Thursday, unlocking big military and civilian export orders in the face of fierce Western competition for the former outcast state’s booming market." https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/world/europe/03iht-03russia.17460465.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/world/europe/03iht-03russ... > "Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the leader of Libya, visited Moscow over the weekend for talks on oil and natural gas deals, just two months after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was his guest in Libya. The visit here suggested that Qaddafi, a onetime pariah, is maneuvering to play Russia and the United States against each other for commercial and political favors." There's plenty of similar stories, if you care to look up the historical record. If the House of Saud tried (for whatever unlikely reason) to pull all its oil money out of the US banking system and play similar games with Russia and China, a CIA-run regime change operation would be a real possiblility, right?