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>that'd be geopolitical suicide Saudi Arabia seems to be doing fine last I checked.

131012 6y ago
That was my thought: Us foreign policy is such a mess that its territory is now open to international hitmen.
dkroy 6y ago
One interesting fact linked to this country is that he was born in Saudi Arabia as well. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body-houston-street-manhattan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body...
- alien_ 6y ago
  Operating mode sounds much like it happened with Jamal Khashoggi, could he be another victim of MBS or some other Saudi prince?
  - grugagag 6y ago
    Why would that be the case? Khashogi was clearly speaking up and was wanted killed, even he knew it
    - sushshshsh 6y ago
      Money and/or power tend to be the causes for these things, unless it's personal.
yardie 6y ago
Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.
- ithinkso 6y ago
  Turkey has the second largest military in NATO (after US) and by quite a margin
  - codebolt 6y ago
    Turkey leadership may well be sympathetic to the Saudis to some extent. Freedom of press doesn't exactly seem like their biggest concern, and they have an authoritarian Muslim ruler.
    - ithinkso 6y ago
      They might be, no doubt. I was mainly objecting (unrelated to the article) to the 'smallness' of the neighboring state and to the fact that if something could be considered an act of war doesn't mean it will be one. Bottomless oil well is a good counter to an unlimited war chest.
    - johnyzee 6y ago
      They 'may be', but they're not. They are on opposing sides of a huge regional political divide, and pretty much in cold war against eachother.
      - toyg 6y ago
        I would argue that in the ME everyone is and is not in cold war with everyone else, at any given time. Erdogan and the Saudis, for example, both helped ISIS... until they didn't. There isn't a fundamental ideological divide, everyone is just jockeying for a few more square-meters of this or that.
        puranjay 6y ago
        The jockeying isn't for some square meter of land. It's for influence over the muslim world.
        6y ago

That was my thought: Us foreign policy is such a mess that its territory is now open to international hitmen.

One interesting fact linked to this country is that he was born in Saudi Arabia as well. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body-houston-street-manhattan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body...

alien_ 6y ago
Operating mode sounds much like it happened with Jamal Khashoggi, could he be another victim of MBS or some other Saudi prince?
- grugagag 6y ago
  Why would that be the case? Khashogi was clearly speaking up and was wanted killed, even he knew it
  - sushshshsh 6y ago
    Money and/or power tend to be the causes for these things, unless it's personal.

yardie 6y ago

Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.

ithinkso 6y ago
Turkey has the second largest military in NATO (after US) and by quite a margin
- codebolt 6y ago
  Turkey leadership may well be sympathetic to the Saudis to some extent. Freedom of press doesn't exactly seem like their biggest concern, and they have an authoritarian Muslim ruler.
  - ithinkso 6y ago
    They might be, no doubt. I was mainly objecting (unrelated to the article) to the 'smallness' of the neighboring state and to the fact that if something could be considered an act of war doesn't mean it will be one. Bottomless oil well is a good counter to an unlimited war chest.
  - johnyzee 6y ago
    They 'may be', but they're not. They are on opposing sides of a huge regional political divide, and pretty much in cold war against eachother.
    - toyg 6y ago
      I would argue that in the ME everyone is and is not in cold war with everyone else, at any given time. Erdogan and the Saudis, for example, both helped ISIS... until they didn't. There isn't a fundamental ideological divide, everyone is just jockeying for a few more square-meters of this or that.
      - puranjay 6y ago
        The jockeying isn't for some square meter of land. It's for influence over the muslim world.
        6y ago