RE: Saudi journalist killed and hacked inside Saudi embassy in Istanbul
October 24, 2018 at 7:08 am
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2018 at 7:25 am by WinterHold.)
(October 23, 2018 at 6:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Here you go, Atlas.
Rich motherfuckers don't care who you murder as long as you are rich enough.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/busin...ctionfront
Quote:Standing Ovation for Saudi Crown Prince Thrusts Conference Attendees Into Limelight
If he chopped a few heads off of bankers I might forgive him but money talks with these fucks and nothing else.
The boycott of this conference is really pathetic and not enough..still the Sauds made billions despite the crisis of the murder.
There's even a 30 billion $ deal with ARAMCO !
(October 24, 2018 at 6:13 am)Wololo Wrote:(October 23, 2018 at 2:48 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I can only reiterate the fact that the US has no interest in supporting your enemies. We support reliable actors who wield institutional authority, our government isn't cutting billion dollar deals with your neighbor up the street (even though he's a superswell guy!).
A good look at the course of US foreign policy in the Middle East puts the lie to that idea. There is no consistent US position at all, just individuals looking at short term desires and acting on them (often without the knowledge or approval of Washington, or alternatively with the approval of one section of Washington against the hostility of another section).
Take Iran/Persia, in the 50's the US was willing to work with Mossadegh until the UK lead coup, afterwards they were friendly with the Shah (most of the time) for no good reason, going so far as to support him during the revolution, before (too late) throwing support behind tye reactionary ayatollahs. And after 1980 the policy has been all over the place often with the ambassador or oil interests sabotaging then current official policy for personal gain.
And Iraq is even worse when you look at it, Saddam went from enemy no.1 to best friend so often and so quick your head would spin.
This is very logical because there are rumors about the "different wings" rivaling each other in the White House; and the different presidents belong to either of the wings.
In other words; you can own the U.S if you had enough cash to buy its current president and current administration. Trump is the proof of that, with his "rude" demand for payment in return of his country's services to the Sauds and other countries.
What you say is kinda logical.
(October 24, 2018 at 6:21 am)Khemikal Wrote: We consistently pursue our own interests. The things people do without the knowledge or approval of washington are not our foreign policy. Even in that short list of politically unstable relationships the value of the saudi regime becomes apparent.
They don't have to be decent people to be useful, and short of regime change or revolution, they're the people in a position to cut deals.
Everybody thought that until Trump came, to remind us that "George Bush" and Trump are examples of presidents who saw their own personal interest, so many before them did the same.
How many politicians in the White House are like that?
