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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: June 02, 2022, 04:15:28 PM »

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President Biden is planning to visit Saudi Arabia, a remarkable departure from his vow as a presidential candidate to treat the country as a “pariah” state, according to three administration officials who requested anonymity to share details of a trip not yet announced.

The president’s trip to Riyadh follows broader efforts by his administration to build ties with the oil-rich nation to reduce the price of gas in the United States, which has skyrocketed in recent months.

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Biden is expected to meet with bin Salman during his trip, the people said.

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Absolutely pathetic and disgusting.
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« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2022, 10:47:46 PM »


Iran wants nuclear weapons as an insurance policy against regime change efforts from noted nuclear powers the United States and Israel.  But they’re not going to use them the first chance they get. I mean, f—king Pakistan sponsors at least as much Islamist terrorism as Iran, and they actually have nukes, as does their mortal enemy next door—and it’s been, what, three decades that that’s been the case? It would suck but we could live with it.

Iran getting nukes makes it harder to topple the regime and could create a dangerous nuclear arms race in the region, but in terms of actual threats to Israel or the US or other countries, they’re not the problem. The problem is—has been—Iran’s sponsorship of terrorist and insurgent groups, especially in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories but also Yemen and Afghanistan, which of course goes back to the early days of the Revolutionary Guards and the Qods Force (ie., the 1980s). Again: not new.

But if we were to condemn countries for sponsoring or turning a blind eye to Islamist terrorism, we might want to take a look some of our so-called allies (and indirectly, ourselves…), like the inbred royal morons in Riyadh or the paranoid deep state in Islamabad. I don’t care if the groups they support also want to hang the al-Saud and all the other existing Islamic governments from lamp-posts; if anything, that makes their support of Salafi jihadists even more insane low IQ behavior. At least Hezbollah effectively and loyally serves the Islamic Republic’s interests, lol…
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2022, 11:46:17 PM »

Yeah Averroes is right. Honestly it makes sense that extraction of raw materials would be where the most obvious brutality took place within the context of global markets. This has been true since the Bad Old Days of colonialism and chattel slavery, if not before. I don’t see a realistic way to solve this, sadly.
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« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2022, 12:35:17 PM »

we do not depend on Saudi Arabia for oil ffs
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« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2022, 12:47:12 PM »

To be clear, “we” do depend on Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth to help prop up the US arms industry, the stock market, venture capital firms, top lobbying firms and think tanks…
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2022, 01:34:22 PM »

Regardless of muh oil or Iran, it’s abundantly clear that the US-Saudi alliance is of mutual benefit to elites in both countries.

The benefits for ordinary people in both countries? Dubious.
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« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2022, 09:58:40 PM »


But muh “alliance…”

Their Ambassador to the US was nicknamed “Bandar Bush.” They buy our weapons. How could they hate us Sad
 
 
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