Posted on 02/26/2021 6:49:04 AM PST by kiryandil
MBS, the prince in waiting has been the heir apparent and the de facto ruler for the aging King.
MBS knew of the plot, at a minimum, certainly was naive enough to think it wouldn’t get traced to him. The Turks blew his cover.
MBS has to get the blessings of the Senior Ulema Commission who issue a fatwa of approval before a new king is crowned.
Kashoggi was a devout Muslim and his body was not correctly buried or given religious rites. That is a severe violation of Muslim “fiqh” and MBS is blamed.
So it doesn’t look like MBS can be named the future King and is being shunned by us, diplomatically. Currently a very unstable regime and needs to get fixed before the old King dies or there could be a palace coup.
I'm more concerned with why the Washington Post had a known terrorist on their payroll.
Who does the deep state want instead? How would public policies change?
Cuddling up to Iran.
You bring up some interesting points that might be relevant if the Crown Prince doesn't just have them all whacked.
I'd put some money on the latter.
Personally, I think the Crown Prince is a Gordian Knot kind of guy.
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I wonder how much money pro-Iran Qatari nationals sent to liberal coffers?
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/columns/end-of-orb-alliance-a-change-in-turkey-gulf-ties
02/24/2021
A new status quo has since emerged, as Joe Biden replaced Donald Trump as U.S. president. The Biden administration and, more broadly, the Democrats have a different view of the Middle East than the country’s previous leader.
Biden actively seeks to relaunch nuclear talks with Iran, which currently negotiates the framework for dialogue with Washington. That bargain, without a doubt, hurts the Gulf’s interests.
Indeed, the U.S. has already halted its military assistance to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen.
Moreover, Biden waited a whole month before speaking with Netanyahu – which, experts say, suggests that the U.S. administration will give Israel the cold shoulder.
Finally, the White House issued an interesting statement, saying that Biden’s counterpart in Riyadh was King Salman, as opposed to MBS. Those remarks are widely believed to suggest that Washington intends to sideline the princes.
The Gulf states, accurately interpreting the changing status quo, are slowly revising their regional policy. In response to Biden’s victory, they immediately moved to de-escalate tensions with Qatar and lift the blockade.
There is every reason to believe that similar steps will follow.
Their next move will presumably involve normalization with Turkey. As a matter of fact, certain signs are already there.
In recent days, the Turkish and Emirati ministers of science mentioned each other on Twitter as a token of goodwill. It was the first contact between the two countries after a long time – and, possibly, a discreet gesture intended to lay the groundwork for normalization.
For the record, it would have been possible to claim, even in the absence of the aforementioned tweets, that the bilateral relationship was on the brink of improvement.
At the end of the day, states are rational actors and their actions are informed by their interests. The new status quo encourages Turkey and the Gulf states to normalize their relations.
What that means for the region – and what geopolitical developments it may entail – will be the subject of my next column.
20 posted on 2/25/2021, 10:55:28 PM by Fedora
There was a report yearago that Fayed was involved in uranium smuggling.
You are right. Perhaps, we will get info on the next step in KSA from https://twitter.com/Mujtahidd
President [sic] Biden is doing a pivot to Turkey, has always hated Israel, and like Demagogic Party a-holes in general, doesn't work for us, that is the US.
Well put.
What is a prime cover for an intelligence operative?
Oh yeah, “Journalist.”
There were lots of articles on this here when it happened. My conclusion: An operative for an opposing faction was taken out clumsily, from the standpoint of Western optics. It’s the Middle East, it is how they do things. Erdogan has done much worse (since this went down in Turkey) yet somehow he is still in NATO.
Thank you. See my previous.
That’s a great 2-line summary of this situation.
Ping to the replied-to post.
Someone back then had the balls to do some research on this guy. He was NOT a US citizen, he was involved with arms dealing, was basically planting pro-Qatari govt slant pieces in the media ( whether he even wrote them was questionable)...and yeah, a guy in that world would have plenty of “contacts”
Whoever he crossed was mighty pizzed. Whoever he was serving is mighty vengeful against MBS and the Saudis.
White liberal ‘Elites’ don’t care about Ashli Babbitt and we don’t care about Khashoggi.
The guy’s dead - dead for a long time. Move on Washington Post and New York Times boys... It’s O-VAR!
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