Why We Should Worry About Saudi’s Game of Thrones

If he can't fix the economy and generate more jobs for his young supporters, at least he can blame Iran for their predicament. It might buy him time, if nothing else.

And it's this strategy that makes Vision 2030 so risky -- both for bin Salman and the wider region.

His vision is bigger and bolder than the last king's, but only a fool would buy into it without some skepticism.

Bin Salman may be a modern-day Machiavelli. He certainly knows how to play the crowd. But if his gamble is to be any more than a cultural Ponzi that collapses at the first quake of dissent, he must deliver on some of the dreams he is promising.

If he doesn't, the risk of an all-out Saudi-Iran war could be much closer -- regardless of whether or not he has replaced his father.

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