Again, these are fairy tales we have to tell ourselves because actually doing something about it is inconvenient. That's it. That's why we engage in these goofy stories about the guy who lived and worked in America and who was a big critic of Saudi Arabia actually had no ties to America. It's a fantasy. It's sick!
But that is where we find ourselves, because making moves to make us less dependent on foreign oil is hard, and people like cheap gas, and we built nearly everything in this country on the promise of cheap gas, and so when gas fluctuates, suddenly we have to beg and cry like Trump did and we want Biden to do to please help make the gas cheaper.
Yeah, not really. The reality is, we
need them so long as this is the current world order- where the whole world economy is run on and tied to oil, as is US dollar. When and until that changes, get back to me. Then we can ditch them. And the guy lived in America for like not even a year. That does not make him an American. Stop it. And he was a Saudi from an
extremely prominent Saudi family that had close ties to the royal family. The guys grandfather was the
personal physician of the
founder and first king of the Saudi Arabian kingdom. His fathers brother- his uncle- Adnan Khashoggi was a
billionaire arms dealer and purported to be the richest person in Saudi Arabia (outside the royals a'course). His first cousin was the Egyptian-Saudi billionaire Dodi Fayed who was Princess Diana's boyfriend who tragically died in a car accident with her back in the day. Yes,
that Princess Diana. He's not some run of the mill journalist. He was an
elite of the elite of his country.
He was a
Saudi national. Not an American. I don't much care that he went to college here. It means nothing. Less than nothing. Wealthy foreigners
often go to other countries for their college studies. Osama Bin Laden lived in the UK for 3-4 years when he went to Oxford. Is he British? Yeah, no. Speaking of Bin Laden, the guy was at one time very close personal friends with Osama Bin Laden. Which would make sense, they are both from billionaire
Saudi families with close ties to the royal family.
Anywhoo...the guy moved to America in June 2017. And he went to Turkey to try to divorce his current
SAUDI wife so he could marry a
Turkish one. And the reason why he moved to America is because he was
pissed off that he was getting banned/censored from writing and media appearances in the kingdom for criticizing Donald Trump's policy in Middle East. True story. He wasn't banned because he was critical of MbS or the devastation of Yemen, or the kingdoms support and exportation of Wahhabism around the Muslim world. It was all because in December of 2016 he mildly criticized…....Donald Trump. And roughly 6 months later, he moved to the US.
And Trump
never had to beg the Saudis for anything. They liked and respected the guy. In 2018 he told them you are't getting more fat arms deals and we aren't going to help you in Yemen if you don't do what I tell you and pump oil and drive the price down. In 2020 he told them if they didn't end the price war with Russia and cut back on production his hands would be tied and he'd be forced to pull all US military personnel out of the kingdom. Needless to say they complied both times.
You want to talk about beg? It was really pathetic seeing Biden going hat in hand to beg Venezuela for oil after US has been desperately trying to overthrow Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez for- oh years- and have been pretending for the last few years that some shitstain sock puppet named Juan Guaido is the "real president" of Venezuela.
