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originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: pavil
Watch his Rally tonight if you doubt that
I've watched all his rallies but now that he keeps repeating the same tired talking points at each one they have gotten boring.
But I'm sure I'll watch this one.
You probably think he went after the POOT 4 just by a spur of the moment tweet.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: pavil
The World has changed vis a vis Saudi Arabia after Las Vegas. The Purge that followed was not coincidental, IMO. Are they perfect allies? Not yet but our interests align and that is what geopolitics is all about. You play with the cards dealt the best you can.
That's a fair point.
But I don't trust them. Those weapons will end up in the hands of people that do us harm. We don't have to sell them weapons to work with them in the middle east. If they are telling us that if we don't sell them weapons they wont help , then that's even more of a reason to not deal with them.
It's my opinion but I don't think this deal had anything to do with diplomacy or aligning interests. It is not in our interests to help arm terrorist.
This was about money.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: pavil
You probably think he went after the POOT 4 just by a spur of the moment tweet.
I am not interested in any of that. At all.
Haven't even read what it was that got them so upset.
Haven't watch or read anything about what they are saying ether.
Trump having twitter feuds is childish nonsense. That goes for trump and anyone that engages him in them.
Unfortunately I will hear trump waste time crying about it tonight at his rally.
And i'll hear the dems running for potus cry about it during their debates.
Waste of time.
originally posted by: pavil
a reply to: crankyoldman
How do you think that will turn out for the US in the region, let alone Saudi/US relations?
Former vice president Joe Biden and his wife Jill stepped down from the board of the Biden Cancer Initiative in April to focus on the 2020 presidential campaign.
Three months later, both Biden’s campaign and his namesake nonprofit are sputtering to a stall, with the latter suspending operations indefinitely.
The Biden Cancer Initiative, started just two years ago, promised $400 million to boost cancer treatment, but after Biden and his wife left in April, “the nonprofit had trouble maintaining momentum without their involvement,” KYW-TV reports.
Perhaps this was Biden's wanna-be Clinton Foundation?
“There is a crisis in Queens, and it’s called AOC,” Murray told Fox News. “And instead of focusing on us, she’s focusing on being famous. Mainly rolling back progress and authoring the job-killing Green New Deal and killing the Amazon New York deal.”
and honestly there were so many “fears” that Trump would be that impulsive clown who went rogue and nuked the world, that haven’t come to fruition, I am just of the mindset that perhaps we’ve read the man completely wrong.
Fernando Scherrer appeared in federal court in Puerto Rico on Tuesday to finalize bail procedures as part of a group of six people arrested on July 10 for their roles in a wide-reaching corruption scandal on the island. Mr. Scherrer, who resigned from BDO last Wednesday as president/managing director, faces six criminal charges for electronic fraud, conspiracy to steal, and conspiracy to launder money.
Meanwhile in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Mr. Scherrer headed the USVI operations with John Engerman being his immediate subordinate, questions linger about the legality of BDO PR/USVI operations in the U.S. Virgin Islands...
Meanwhile, the scandal has caused Washington to take a closer look at the territory, and has bolstered the Trump administration’s position that Puerto Rico is rife with corruption. “The unfortunate events of the past week in Puerto Rico prove the president’s concerns about mismanagement, politicization and corruption have been valid,” said White House spokesman Judd Deere.
The Department of Justice accused those involved of unlawfully steering about $15.5 million in federal contracts to politically connected consultants.
Benta told the publication that Mr. Epstein ran a massive influence operation to get powerful politicians, nonprofit organizations, law enforcement, and government agencies charged with stopping such corruption and criminal activity from focusing on him. “He [Mr. Epstein] has people on his payroll,” Mr. Benta alleged, according to Breitbart. “He has campaign contributions. He has donated to a lot of agencies and nonprofits. Maybe part of the reason why they’re not vocal is a lot of the nonprofit organizations have been recipients of contributions from Jeffrey Epstein and a lot of surrounding programs with children.”
Qatar wanted to build an underground natural gas pipeline from the country's North Field to Turkey, traversing Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria to Mediterranean and then to Europe. Turkey too was in favor of this 'Islamic Pipeline', as it would have made the country a key player in the transit, not to mention profits. However, the Assad regime wasn't interested as the proposed pipeline would have negated Russia off the equation.
What about Saudi Arabia? After all, it too has been a vocal supporter of the rebels ? Hegemony of Saudi Arabia over oil again. Into this scene comes in Russia, alongside. Saudi Arabia has been pressing Russia to discard the Syrian President in favor of a lucrative arms deal worth more than $15 billion and further investments in the country to boot.