Liberals Grow Impatient With President Biden s Foreign Policy Decisions nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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In spring 2018, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Wall Street, and major universities rolled out a red carpet for nearly three weeks to welcome Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to the United States.
During his trip, MBS met with Oprah Winfrey, Rupert Murdoch, Sergey Brin, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates, among many others. The New York Times described the US tour as seeking to change the perception of Saudi Arabia from an opaque and conservative kingdom, where mosques promote extremist ideology and women are relegated to second-class status, to a modernist desert oasis.
But while MBS was the face of that effort, an enormous sovereign wealth fund the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, or PIF with about $400 billion in assets and expected to grow to $2 trillion, was the real draw for many of the tech, finance, and entertainment elites seeking photos and meetings with the 32-year-old heir to the Saudi throne.
President Joe Biden’s decision not to punish Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite the Friday release of a declassified intelligence report concluding that the Saudi leader approved the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi outraged human rights and press freedom advocates within and beyond the United States.
One MBS is 7 feet tall, the other is 4 feet tall…EXPLAIN?
The British papers (UK Daily Mail below) reported Kushner’s deal to target Khashoggi and others but this story was totally censored in the US and VT investigated for reporting it. (At orders of William Barr)
The ODNI has released its report on the killing of Khashoggi.
The Yemen Civil War Arms Bonanza
The Yemen Civil War Arms Bonanza
“Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen is both immoral and incoherent.” So thundered Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director, Muhsin Siddiquey after consulting figures from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showing that members of the G20 have exported over $17 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Kingdom entered the conflict in Yemen. “The world’s wealthiest nations cannot continue to put profits above the Yemeni people.”
They do, and will continue to do so, despite the cholera outbreak, coronavirus, poorly functioning hospitals, and 10 million hungry mouths. The latest illustration of this is the Trump administration’s hurried $23 billon sale of 50 F-35 fighter aircraft, 18 MQ-9B Reaper drones, air-to-air missiles and various other munitions to the United Arab Emirates. The UAE used to be a more enthus