Friedman is a court jester. The fact that this clown is taken seriously is an indictment of the ruling idiocracy. Presumably, this Faustian agreement is intended to wreck the Chinese brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran to keep tensions in the region high. The Chinese reaction should be interesting.
Friedman doesn’t care about a few hundred thousand dead people in Yemen. It is bizarre how little basic morality actually matters to people like him. They act upset when one of our enemies does something bad, but only care about our atrocities or those of our allies if it is a PR problem. Yemen is forgotten, so it doesn’t matter. In fact, the only thing the average person is supposed to remember about Bonesaw is of course the murder that earned him that nickname. Khashoggi was known to people in DC, so his murder matters to some degree. He was in their social circle.
As long as Prince Bonesaw is loyal to the United States, sells oil for dollars and recycles the resulting surpluses into American weapons and dollar denominated investments, and makes nicey with Israel, nobody in the West cares how corrupt, brutal and incompetent he is.
If anything, his corruption, brutality and incompetence are a feature, not a bug, because they keep his rule dependent on his American sponsors.
I can't help but think MBS is just playing Blinken and Biden for the fools they are. He'll get what he wants as far nuclear technology and such and still move to BRIS in his hedge against the west.
Friedman is a court jester. The fact that this clown is taken seriously is an indictment of the ruling idiocracy. Presumably, this Faustian agreement is intended to wreck the Chinese brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran to keep tensions in the region high. The Chinese reaction should be interesting.
The Chinese and the Iranians are both civilized people. The Saudis and the Americans, well . . . they do have some things in common.
Friedman doesn’t care about a few hundred thousand dead people in Yemen. It is bizarre how little basic morality actually matters to people like him. They act upset when one of our enemies does something bad, but only care about our atrocities or those of our allies if it is a PR problem. Yemen is forgotten, so it doesn’t matter. In fact, the only thing the average person is supposed to remember about Bonesaw is of course the murder that earned him that nickname. Khashoggi was known to people in DC, so his murder matters to some degree. He was in their social circle.
As long as Prince Bonesaw is loyal to the United States, sells oil for dollars and recycles the resulting surpluses into American weapons and dollar denominated investments, and makes nicey with Israel, nobody in the West cares how corrupt, brutal and incompetent he is.
If anything, his corruption, brutality and incompetence are a feature, not a bug, because they keep his rule dependent on his American sponsors.
I can't help but think MBS is just playing Blinken and Biden for the fools they are. He'll get what he wants as far nuclear technology and such and still move to BRIS in his hedge against the west.
The question is still whether MBS will throw the Palestinians under the bus and recognize Israel.
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