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Why? It's one thing to dismember journalists (The despots running that country don't want them anywhere around them), but when you start doing that to businessm
by vkou 3y ago
Why? It's one thing to dismember journalists (The despots running that country don't want them anywhere around them), but when you start doing that to businessmen, nobody is going to do business with you.
The only message it will send is that they are roughly on the level of El Chapo, or some other cartel leader, when it comes to 'Should I work with these guys?'
- ksherlock 3y agoDude, in 2017 King MBS turned the Ryadh Ritz-Carlton into a torture chamber for ~400 of the wealthiest and most powerful Saudis. Maybe you don't remember, maybe you don't care. Either way, that should tell you something.
- vkou 3y agoThat was a local political purge, not a business one. They also use slave labour to build stadiums, and nobody gives a shit, but the second some visiting CEO gets impressed into a worksite is a red-line they aren't going to be crossing. Local businesses and politicians have no choice when it comes to working with those animals, foreign businesses absolutely have a choice. That's the difference.
- rurp 3y agoIt's a country run by people who are happy to murder and torture people they don't like. The chance that someone like Neumann gets dismembered is incredibly low, but it's certainly higher than the chance of it happening in, say, Sweden.