• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    This has been going on for awhile. I’ve said it a few times. Saudi Arabia has been quietly buying up a ton of companies along with various Trump allies and sometimes outrighting funding those Trump ally companies.

    They invest in many Trump related companies as well as partnering with Russia’s Soverign Weath Fund.

    Everyone is so worried about China, they are letting Saudia Arabia buy up everything behind the scenes.

    I would trust a government that kills reporters, hangs out with Epstein, or likely helped fund 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    There’s a list of PIF investments in Wikipedia. PIF

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    Isn’t there a contradiction between the Zionist interest behind the purchase of CBS and say Qatar? I know UAE and Saudi were in bed with Israel before the war but not so sure about today.

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    We’re putting AMERICA First by giving the ARCHITECTS OF 9/11 CONTROL OF OUR NEWS!

    -LITERALLY Republicans!

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        Team Bonesaws is definitely worse than the Ellisons, but they’re both in the Blight Against Humanity Hall of Fame.

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          The reporting you did last week on us was kind of poor, we require you to update your passport and come visit us so we can discuss it all in person…

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        They dislike everyone but their own, but they still get hard-ons for billionaires.

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      It’s like making billions of dollars changes your point of view. Weird.

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      Because there’s money to be made by looking the other way. The “revolving door” is open to high level government bureaucrats and they want their payday after their “public service”

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    Where is reuters on this? This is right up their alley, I have to think the omission is on purpose as this is news.

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      On the one hand we could imagine them clamping down on riske material and promote islamicism, but to be real having lived in the gulf for many years they care more about money than anything else. So prepare for more neoliberal enshittification.

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        Saudi Arabia and UAE are absolutely not going to be promoting Islamism (Qatar is more complicated). Islamists are the biggest enemies of entrenched authoritarian regimes in most of the Middle East, so even ones with a veneer of religion are trying hard to gain legitimacy as secular nationalist dictators. For example remember that one story about the UAE being like "Britain harbors dangerous islamists? The translation here is “this foreign liberal democracy is harboring enemies of my authoritarian regime.” If anything both of them (but probably not (Qatar) are already pushing for more bellicose US policy in the Middle East, because they’re vassal regimed whose survival depends on the continued interest of their imperial masters.

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        With a hefty dose of Israel support because if they went against Israel, 1, the US wouls get angry and 2, people would start questioning why the big rich Muslim countries aren’t doing anything to help their brothers and sisters in Gaza.

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          This particular topic has little to do with Israel to be real. Even as an anti-zionist i am not sure why you slipped this in.

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            Saudi Arabia and UAE are tight with Israel (because they get US military support for backing it), so it’s not unlikely that Israel would get some windfall out of this, though the other person has the cause all wrong and in any case I doubt either country is much more pro-Israel than US establishment media.