According to Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, said in an interview with Paul Jay on "the Real News" network that the United States and Saudi Arabia have sparked an economic warfare against Russia and Iran by manipulating the oil price. The US Empire does not only cooperate with the most evil Muslim dictatorship the world has ever seen in order to topple Bashar al-Assad in Syria but both also try to create turmoil in Russia and Iran, throwing their economies into turmoil and opening their doors to sovereign raiders. Listen what Wilkerson has to say.