By contrast, a country like Saudi Arabia has one foot on both sides of the line and will go with wherever the wind is blowing.
lol . Saudi set the direction and than other countries need to act upon it. even the old dead horse Japan they want to resurrect by engaging it in new projects. Saudis are at the center of Hispanic world, Arabic (Mideast, Africa, Central Asia) and Indian subcontinent. All these will have substantial population growth and alot of it will take over Europe and North America due to demographic changes.
you can already see how many widebody planes line up on Iraqi airspace and i would even think it has some thing to do with keeping Iran airspace open for up and down traffic that is not on radar. This cannot happen without Saudi.
