US Welcomes MBS, Forgets Khashoggi, Praises 'Investments'
Deutsche Welle reports that Mohammed bin Salman is promising a '$1 trillion' investment in the US, with Donald Trump rolling out the red carpet. The article focuses on the optics of renewed economic ties, praising Saudi Arabia's 'ambitious vision.' What’s conspicuously absent? Any meaningful mention of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist dismembered in 2018 at the behest of MBS, according to a
declassified US intelligence report ( ODNI Report, Feb 2021 ). Or the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, fueled by Saudi intervention with US-supplied weaponry. This isn't about 'investment'; it's about normalized impunity. The mainstream media, including DW, consistently frames these meetings as standard diplomatic affairs, allowing perpetrators of state-sanctioned violence to whitewash
their records with lucrative promises. One might wonder if the 'trillion dollars' is less an investment in American prosperity and more a strategic deposit into the 'don't ask, don't tell' fund for human rights abuses.