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What money would they need to launder? Isn’t most oil money just regular revenue in Aramco? Just curious, it wouldn’t surprise me but wasn’t sure.

• red-iron-pine 3y ago
  my boss' guess was that it was to fund a nuclear weapons program but keep it hidden. or a climate change / fallout bunker for 1/3 of the kingdom. like it's big, elaborate build outs, nothing delivered, and some sort of under the table deal nuclear with Trump's brother in law that got him a Billion. the Iranians have, or can rapidly enrich, and Israel is popping off again (and may have ~100 nukes), so Saudi has means, motive, opportunity. infrastructure required to build silos, and infrastructure required to build the City Of The Future are going to look more or less the same for 3-4 years -- lots of big holes, running trenches, piping and power, etc. -- and after a few years they can call it a failure and quietly sweep it under the rug with the rationalization that it's been a failure and they're ashamed of it.
  • q1w2 3y ago
    Building a large building does not look anything like building a nuclear silo. This comment is 100% ridiculous speculation. That's not to say they don't have a nuclear weapons program - they probably do - but needing a mega-project to cover it up is just silly.