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Why don’t they all kill ach other. Colt happen to a more deserving family.
Shut down oil production and screw Europe and China...
Game of thrones.
Do we know if the Crown Prince leans toward crazy jihadist Wahhabism? Or might he lean toward the “Let’s stop being insane” concept?
They are not monolithic in their beliefs or in alignment with our cause.
MBS is an ally to President Trump and America.
Notice we have not heard from the ‘dopey’ Prince as President Trump called him? He was an advocate and ally to Khashgoi.
Moves and counter moves.
I became of age with the Munich games, constant terrorist attacks on Israel, gas lines caused by OPEC, and Iran taking Americans hostage. So my earliest memories have been negative towards Muslims. But also academically/thoughtfully I was taught history before it was rewritten. I had a clear image of the Ottoman Empire as a teen. I knew about the Barbary Wars. I just don't get it. Why are there people in our government willing to deal with Muslims for any reason? This goes back prior to my birth and continues until today.
Every family has its little problems.
There are rumors that the Saudi king died and that Salman is here securing his succession.
Modern Plantagenets without the Christian overtones.
Good times in Saudi.
Right in that sentence above I detect a serious problem.
Saudi royals are sexually profligate, 4 wives at any given time, but there is a constant stream of new ones so there can be hundreds over the course of one man's life. AND birth control is illegal in the country, so there are many, many children.
Yet Crown Prince Mohammed is 34 while his father is 84. What happened to the older children his father must have had? Those from the ages between 18 and 50?
Somehow I am smelling a rat in here.
Bedouin camel jockeys all.
Now we will find out how many (pieces of) Saudi princes it takes to fill a suitcase. The “journalist” required three suitcases, but he was pretty fat.
King Fahd had his three most powerful sons at the head of the National Guard, MODA (Ministry of Defense and Aviation), and the State Police to keep any one of them from becoming too powerful to take over.