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I don't think that's really a useful comment, no doubt just like every country there are brainless people and smart people. For example, the ruling family has b

I don't think that's really a useful comment, no doubt just like every country there are brainless people and smart people. For example, the ruling family has been very good at staying in power for years and years, MBS basically managed to trick the western media into thinking he was a progressive, and they've been able to be one of America's strongest allies despite funding extremist schools around the world, not things totally brainless people could pull off

op03 7y ago
What do you mean trick the western media? As if "tricking" the western media is such a complicated thing. Have you heard of WMDs, the subprime meltdown, election of Obama/Trump, Brexit? The Western media is a unrepairable fucked up system not worth bringing into focus here. Trump is on record saying the Saudi defense budget is whats keeping the US-Saudi relationship cozy. Its not complicated. But beyond that Saudi leadership is brain dead (from having no internal debate/competition/ allowing the propping up of MBS) and thats a most valid explanation for what will follow.