Trump Rolls Out Red Carpet for Known Murderer, Touted as 'Strategic Partner'
Mainstream media frames this as a 'reset' in US-Saudi ties. They'd prefer you forget that 'strategic partner' MBS was directly implicated by US intelligence in the brutal 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2021). The article boasts a potential '$1T Saudi investment,' while conveniently glossing over the humanitarian disaster fueled in Yemen
by Saudi-led coalition forces, often with US-made weapons (Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch). So, the red carpet is rolled out not for human rights or regional stability, but for arms sales and investment pledges. It appears the price of ethics is inversely proportional to the size of the defense contract. How many more atrocities are we willing to forget for another F-35?