RE: Saudi Arabia:Activists appeal to Mariah Carey to cancel Saudi Arabia performance
January 30, 2019 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2019 at 11:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's not like our intelligence agencies don't know that Prince Bonesaw is a dick (and you don;t even need an intelligence agency to figure that out, lol), or how the house of saud has maintained control for these last few centuries.
Our interests, as I indicated to you previously, simply aren't -your- interests. This is realpolitik. We have an interest in maintaining a relationship with a stable authority in the region. For better and for worse, the house of saud is that authority. It may be chock full of assholes and helmed by a brutal dictator, but this doesn't make them less stable. MBS eradicated any competition to his claims and in the process extracted the wealth of those who may have made a bid in future - thus depriving them of the most direct means to do so. He demonstrated that he can kill on foreign soil with impunity..like a common american warlord..and he didn't even need drones to do it. He's shown that he can play the role of charismatic middle eastern progressive and that he has an understanding of a pr blitz. He's shown that he can make impactful private and public alliances with other world leaders and in so doing insulate himself from consequence by unacceptable complicity.
I don't know what to tell you other than that the US isn't likely to lend you a revolutionary hand, and not because we've failed to calculated our own interests..but because we have done so. It is more conducive to our interests that this brutal but competent dictator remain in office than to engage in or promote regime change....that we roll the dice with some saudi muslim brotherhood or another arab spring or..really... any of a grab bag of random islamists like yourself.
The wise decision from this end of the pond simply isn't in your favor.
There's actually a great example of an unwise decision going on right now, in this vein, in how the Trump Admin has handled the Maduro issue closer to home.
Our interests, as I indicated to you previously, simply aren't -your- interests. This is realpolitik. We have an interest in maintaining a relationship with a stable authority in the region. For better and for worse, the house of saud is that authority. It may be chock full of assholes and helmed by a brutal dictator, but this doesn't make them less stable. MBS eradicated any competition to his claims and in the process extracted the wealth of those who may have made a bid in future - thus depriving them of the most direct means to do so. He demonstrated that he can kill on foreign soil with impunity..like a common american warlord..and he didn't even need drones to do it. He's shown that he can play the role of charismatic middle eastern progressive and that he has an understanding of a pr blitz. He's shown that he can make impactful private and public alliances with other world leaders and in so doing insulate himself from consequence by unacceptable complicity.
I don't know what to tell you other than that the US isn't likely to lend you a revolutionary hand, and not because we've failed to calculated our own interests..but because we have done so. It is more conducive to our interests that this brutal but competent dictator remain in office than to engage in or promote regime change....that we roll the dice with some saudi muslim brotherhood or another arab spring or..really... any of a grab bag of random islamists like yourself.
The wise decision from this end of the pond simply isn't in your favor.
There's actually a great example of an unwise decision going on right now, in this vein, in how the Trump Admin has handled the Maduro issue closer to home.
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