I thought oil was worthless nowadays due to clean energy.America has Israel and Saudi and Egypt, that's some fairly big allies. So don't expect them to ever conflict with each other as they report to and receive either aid or military supply from the states and won't ever jepordize that by attacking each other. The last thing these states want is to be in a volatile region where proxy wars is basically the lingua franca and with no big brother looking after them, when the other threatening states clearly have a big brother 'russia'.
So it's funny when you hear people wanting Saudi and the gulf states to fight Israel, don't ever dream of that. How can the gulfies fight Israel who is a friend of America when the gulfies themselves are friends of America? don't you think that's a little bit of a conflict of interest and could lead to them losing military supplies and protection from the states. I am certain if it came down to choosing between Israel and Saudi, America would choose Israel!!!!
What suprised the most is the position of Qatar who literally fought back to end this gulf alliance which all report to Saudi Arabia for foreign policy guidance, Qatar also reports to the same big brother the US, absolutely strange indeed and very unusual how and why they broke from Saudi and the impact this could lead too?
Maybe they realized the states needed them more with those military bases and huge investments they already put into it and wouldn't want to leave it and therefore remain neutral about Qatar breaking the chain of command in the region which is Saudi arabia, because for the US to be without bases in the region, it's empty talk and America has no access to backup it's word or defend any state there in the event of an attack.
Sure Americans can move to the UAE or somewhere else for a base, but is it location wise near the big states that could threaten Saudi arabia such as Iran and Iraq? I bet Qatar is gateway of sort and probably has borders with the big states Iraq and Iran, so in the event of an attack, America has access to stop the militaries from those sides gaining access to Saudi arabia precious oil-fields which is what it's all about, who-ever controls the oil fields can change policies around the world in their favor because the last thing any country wants is the black oil being embargoed like it was in the 70s and the eventual global shortage disaster that resulted.