With attention turning to the soaring purge in Saudi Arabia, with at least 10 princes and a number of other royals arrested, President Trump has gone on the record as supporting the effort, saying he has “great confidence” in the Saudi king and crown prince, and believes they “know exactly what they are doing.”
It’s unlikely that President Trump views himself as particularly committed to members of the Saudi royal family cracking down on other members of the Saudi royal family. Rather, he’s seen Saudi Arabia’s government as integral to his anti-Iran efforts.
The Trump Administration has long presented the Saudis as key to “neutralizing Iran” across the Middle East, and perennial Saudi hostility toward Iran has made the kingdom only too willing to back that idea.
To that end, it’s unsurprising that the Trump Administration is fine wit the Saudi crackdown, as anything that ensures the survival of the current government, with its bellicose position toward Iran, is doubtless to be fine with them.
I’m certain he does. It would appear that Jared Kushner played a role in this.
I bet, if someone from the Iranian government were to slip Kushner a note indicating that they would like the Trump Organization to build a very large hotel/convention complex in Tehran or perhaps along the Caspian coast that el Trumpo would flip in a heartbeat.
So the same guy who demands that Venezuela “restore freedom” openly praises a vicious, backwards, evil dictatorship. Now Washington doesn’t even bother to hide it’s hypocrisy. And as Jimmy Dore says, it’s the petrodollar, baby!
Trump is simply making the same mistake that was made in
Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Enlisting arming and supporting a proxy to engage the enemy.
In Afghanistan it resulted in Al-Qaeda, in Iraq they got
ISIS, and in Syria they have the Saudi Wahhabi.
Now Trump thinks that with Israel and Saudi together they can
solve something? He is wrong Israel simply wants to destabilize Syria and Iran
while Saudi wants to radicalize the Syria, Lebanon and Iraq with Wahhabism.
This does nothing for Mid-East peace.