Voor het door de VS geen actie ondernemen op de moord die de Saoedische terreurstaat liet
plegen op journalist Khashoggi, in opdracht van kroonprins Mohammad
bin Salman (MBS), moet Saoedi-Arabië snel een eerder met het fascistische beest
Trump overeengekomen contract tekenen, een contract voor het
achterlijk hoge bedrag van $ 450,000,000,000 ofwel 450 miljard
dollar…….
Trump
weet dat een groot deel van de EU sancties wenst tegen
Saoedi-Arabië, maar dat dit niet zal gebeuren als de VS dit niet ook
doet……. Trump stelt doodleuk dat de belangen van de VS groter zijn dan de misdaden die deze reli-fascistische dictatuur pleegt……. Hij stelde het zo hard dat de echo werd gevoeld in Duitsland en men zich achter de oren begon te krabben over eerder gedane uitspraken…..
Zo kondigde Duitsland in eerste instantie aan dat het net
getekende contract voor wapenleveringen aan Saoedi-Arabië te verscheuren,
echter daar werd na de uitlatingen van Trump bijzonder snel een ‘koelkast-contract’ van gemaakt,
m.a.w.: als de storm over Khashoggi gaat liggen zal Duitsland alsnog gaan
leveren…… (dat dezelfde dictatuur een genocide uitvoert in Jemen is al een paar jaar lang geen probleem voor de hypocriete Duitse Merkel regering; wat dat betreft kan je nog ‘enig begrip’ hebben voor de openlijke uitspraken van het beest Trump….)
Groot-Brittannië heeft als de VS al helemaal lak aan
zware mensenrechtenschendingen, misdaden tegen de menselijkheid en
uiteraard aan de zojuist genoemde door Saoedi-Arabië in gang gezette genocide in buurland Jemen……….
Hoe is dit allemaal mogelijk anno 2018??!!!
Trump’s
Price Tag for Saving Mohammed bin Salman: $450,000,000,000
November
23, 2018 at 11:47 pm
Written
by Middle
East Eye
(MEE) — US
President Donald Trump’s latest statement on
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder is an extraordinary
example of political sincerity – although backed by a completely
wrong analysis.
Trump
departed from the usual empty and generic rhetoric made by former
American presidents about Saudi Arabia. He made it very clear
that the US will condone what Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
did, i.e ordering the
killing of Khashoggi, because the kingdom is containing Iran,
purchasing American weapons and is helping to control oil prices in
line with American interests.
In
other words, when American values, such as defending human rights and
the rule of law, collide with American interests, Trump will opt for
the latter. In fact, Trump statement confirms indirectly Middle
East Eye’s report on
the US intention to offer a way out to the Saudi crown prince from
the Khashoggi quagmire.
A
dangerous place
The
first sentence of the statement: “The world is a very dangerous
place!” is probably the only one that reflects a correct reading of
the current international situation. Of course, the president of the
United States skips, or does not care about, the fact that his
country carries a significant degree of responsibility for this
situation.
In a statement stunning &cold-hearted, #Trump gave #saudiarabia a pass on murder of #JamalKhasoggi. He sounded more like #Saudi lobbyist or defense lawyer than protector of US values. So much for American justice. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Trump’s Utter Denial About Saudi Arabia and Its Crown Prince
The President has ignored U.S. intelligence findings and given Saudi Arabia a pass on the grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The support provided
– so far – to Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, the bias shown
on the Israeli-Palestinian question, the never-ending war in
Afghanistan and before that the US’s toxic
legacy in
Iraq, are just a few examples.
The
reasons provided to explain why the world is dangerous follow the
usual American position, reductive and oversimplified to say the
least: all roads lead to Tehran.
The
reference to the Yemen conflict is quite puzzling, as well as the
proposed solution: “Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen
if the Iranians would agree to leave.” Even more puzzling is
the president’s vision about the responsibilities for terrorism.
He
considers Iran “the world’s leading sponsor of terror” and then
he makes a reference to Saudi kingdom’s efforts in this field:
“Saudi Arabia has agreed to spend billions of dollars in leading
the fight against Radical Islamic Terrorism.” Unfortunately, the
historical and circumstantial evidence, as far as Saudi Arabia is
concerned, point in just the
opposite direction.
$450bn
price tag
Apart
from the flawed analysis, Trump’s statement is an extraordinary
demonstration of realpolitik. Because the world is a very
dangerous place, the United States will continue to support Saudi
Arabia, no matter what. But the real purpose of Trump’s statement
on Saudi last night is actually to fix a price for this support.
The
hidden message that the statement was sending to the Saudi royal
court is that to save himself the Saudi crown prince will be
expected to disburse
$450bn in investments.
(voor vergroting van het volgende document >> klik op de vergrotingsfunctie van jouw browser, meestal rechtsboven in het menu te vinden, of zie het origineel)
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. @SenBobCorker & I are triggering Magnitsky Act AGAIN to defend human rights & free press. Now Pres. Trump must SPECIFICALLY determine if Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman himself is responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
The
astronomical sums discussed during Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia
last year and Saudi crown prince’s subsequent visit to the US, that
so far had remained at the level of a declaration of intent, have to
be transformed into binding contracts very soon.
And
in case the message coming from Washington was not clear enough for
the Saudis, Trump is even perfidious enough to mention possible
initiatives by the US Congress going in different directions, hinting
at the possibility of examine them: “I will consider whatever ideas
are presented to me.”
Translate:
hurry up in drafting and signing the contracts!
Saving
bin Salman
Trump
is aware that the CIA has probably reached different conclusions on
the responsibility of MBS in Khashoggi’s murder: “Our
intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it
could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic
event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!”
Certain
sectors of the CIA still regret losing
the excellent cooperation they had with the former crown prince,
Mohammed bin Nayef, and they could complicate Trump’s plan to save
the current crown prince.
There
is a risk that this affair will also turn into another struggle
between the White House and the intelligence agencies as happened
with the Russiagate. Trump has questioned the analysis of US
intelligence agencies according to which Russian intelligence hacked
the Democratic
party and voting systems during
the US presidential elections in 2016.
To
make matters worse, on Wednesday, a bipartisan group of senators
sent a letter to Trump, triggering an investigation into Khashoggi’s
disappearance.
The
letter, written by Republican Senators Bob Corker and Lindsey Graham,
and Democratic Senators Bob Menendez and Patrick Leahy, called
for Trump to
investigate Khashoggi’s disappearance under the Global Magnitsky
Human Rights Accountability Act (GMHRAA).
The
Magnitsky Act allows the president to impose sanctions on a person or
country that has engaged in a human rights violation. “It is a
delicate situation when we have a longtime ally that we’ve had for
decades, but we have a crown prince that I believe ordered the
killing of a journalist,” Corker said in
an interview.
In
other words, saving Mohammed bin Salman will not be an easy
undertaking, especially if further leaks from Turkey on
Khashoggi’s murder should emerge with the smoking gun trail leading
directly to the Saudi crown prince.
Hence,
the Khashoggi saga is likely to go on.
By Marco
Carnelos / Republished
with permission / Middle
East Eye / Report
a typo
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Zie ook:
‘Khashoggi: 5 mannen ter door veroordeeld in Saoedi-Arabië‘
‘Trump weet het zeker, de top van de Saoedische dictatuur wist niet van de moord op Khashoggi….‘
‘Tony Blair weigert na de moord op Khashoggi een lucratieve deal met Saoedi-Arabië op te zeggen‘
‘Jamal Khashoggi was geen groot criticus van de Saoedische dictatuur en bepaald geen held‘
‘Khashoggi waarschijnlijk vermoord vanwege kennis over de 9/11 aanslagen‘
‘Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post‘
‘Saoedi-Arabië heeft 15 ‘psychopathische macho’s nodig om één journalist te vermoorden‘
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