Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
by jtms on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:31AM
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“Only a little bit murdery” - op
Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
by joe_the_user on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:37PM
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No matter how I try to balance: "these are people who are killers and venally evil in nearly every sense of the word"
and "But they are still intelligent and because they aim to maintain their significant power, they have to act in a measured, limited way that still involved logic and allows most 'little people' to go about their business AND we need to understand logic of these things BECAUSE these people influence so much.".
No matter how much I couch and balance my words, there's always someone ready to jump in with the crude simplification. Frick-off, jeesh.
And to further clarify, the Saudis don't murder exiles, in particular, wholesale. They do murder the Houthas and several other groups wholesale.
Khashoggi is was not simply a journalist but a member of an influential family with Saudi Arabia [1]. MBS has dealt quite brutally with a variety of his internal opponents without Saudi Arabia. Murdering Khashoggi was something of a statement that MBS wouldn't let his direct opponents escape to other countries to oppose him.
To be clear, the murder was a horrific act by a brutal theocratic regime, I'm not noting these factor to condone it in any way but merely to give background.
[1] For example, this Khashoggi was a relative of Adnan Khashoggi, once know as the world's largest arms dealer.