This has been going on for awhile. I’ve said it a few times. Saudi Arabia has been quietly buying up a ton of companies along with various Trump allies and sometimes outrighting funding those Trump ally companies.
They invest in many Trump related companies as well as partnering with Russia’s Soverign Weath Fund.
Everyone is so worried about China, they are letting Saudia Arabia buy up everything behind the scenes.
It is honestly pretty funny that they are currently incapable at protecting themselves even with top of the line equipment. They’ve also spent way too much money on completely useless megaprojects, failed to buy up large swaths of Arizona land for alfalfa, and haven’t built any large internal industries to transition them away from their status as a petrostate aside from a few luxury electric car manufacturing plants.
Recommend Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) by Pollack
There are many reasons; one of them is that Arab forces often lie to their commanders so that they have very poor situational awareness, leading to a cascade of further poor decisions in war.
This is because you can and will be executed for failure.
Unfortunately, you can also be executed for being too competent, which can be seen as threatening to your superiors.
Also, maintenance. And sand. I hate sand.
There are many other factors and exceptions, depending on when and where.
and thier influence on trump is very limited compared to israel, and russia. they though they were getting a deal, but they dont seem to directly interact with politics, such as funding the actual campaigns or superpacs.
I disagree, please look at Trump’s son in law Kushner’s business dealings in Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere in middle east). The many billions of dollars are “officially” in his private equity firm (and accompanying shell companies).
Russian oligarchs are small change and have nothing near as much influence (due to less money)
Saudi Arabia can’t beat Israel for influence, but you know, we formed Israel and they’re like our colony/military base in the middle east; so I don’t think any nation can match that influence, we’re connected as allies, Israel could not exist without the USA.
I am not saying that Trump doesn’t accept money from Russia or anybody else, though, and exert influence for them. He’ll take money from everywhere and make “deals” with anyone who has billions of dollars.
Who bailed Elon out and helped him buy Twitter? Who do you think Trump was selling those fucking cases full of classified Intel to? It’s so sad watching this all play out with nothing to do about it.
This has been going on for awhile. I’ve said it a few times. Saudi Arabia has been quietly buying up a ton of companies along with various Trump allies and sometimes outrighting funding those Trump ally companies.
They invest in many Trump related companies as well as partnering with Russia’s Soverign Weath Fund.
Everyone is so worried about China, they are letting Saudia Arabia buy up everything behind the scenes.
I would trust a government that kills reporters, hangs out with Epstein, or likely helped fund 9/11 terrorist attacks.
There’s a list of PIF investments in Wikipedia. PIF
Saudi Arabia is capitalist so why should we worry about them? /s
Yeah, the invisible handjob of the market will sort it all out, right?
I’m using this.
It is honestly pretty funny that they are currently incapable at protecting themselves even with top of the line equipment. They’ve also spent way too much money on completely useless megaprojects, failed to buy up large swaths of Arizona land for alfalfa, and haven’t built any large internal industries to transition them away from their status as a petrostate aside from a few luxury electric car manufacturing plants.
Recommend Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) by Pollack
There are many reasons; one of them is that Arab forces often lie to their commanders so that they have very poor situational awareness, leading to a cascade of further poor decisions in war.
This is because you can and will be executed for failure.
Unfortunately, you can also be executed for being too competent, which can be seen as threatening to your superiors.
Also, maintenance. And sand. I hate sand.
There are many other factors and exceptions, depending on when and where.
and thier influence on trump is very limited compared to israel, and russia. they though they were getting a deal, but they dont seem to directly interact with politics, such as funding the actual campaigns or superpacs.
I disagree, please look at Trump’s son in law Kushner’s business dealings in Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere in middle east). The many billions of dollars are “officially” in his private equity firm (and accompanying shell companies).
Russian oligarchs are small change and have nothing near as much influence (due to less money)
Saudi Arabia can’t beat Israel for influence, but you know, we formed Israel and they’re like our colony/military base in the middle east; so I don’t think any nation can match that influence, we’re connected as allies, Israel could not exist without the USA.
I am not saying that Trump doesn’t accept money from Russia or anybody else, though, and exert influence for them. He’ll take money from everywhere and make “deals” with anyone who has billions of dollars.
Who bailed Elon out and helped him buy Twitter? Who do you think Trump was selling those fucking cases full of classified Intel to? It’s so sad watching this all play out with nothing to do about it.