I fucking love this clusterfuck lmao
News 11/22
Justin Lewis
Brody Ramirez
What do you think is the reason between the split between the CIA's and Trump's position of Saudi Arabia? Is it 4D chess or does Trump just like Salman for some reason?
Anthony Thomas
because CIA are ideology-driven while Trump is money-driven.
it's the same reason Priests and Kings had disagreements when it came to imperialism.
Austin Edwards
What even is the CIA's ideology? It obviously not liberal democracy like they would claim. Can maintaining American hegemony and imperialism itself be considered an ideology?
Robert Rivera
They're both money-driven
The CIA is just very good at getting returns in investment, while trump is a hapless idiot who can't even effectively landlord and casino, the two positions where you can do little more than own stuff to be profitable. Trump is a grifter in the showman sense, but he doesn't know the first thing about investment, diplomacy, or international affairs. The CIA does all of these things very well, it's just completely evil.
Protectionism is the neoliberal line.
Thatcher didn't want to see a unified Germany, for instance, and NATO balked at the prospect of a demilitarized unified Germany.
Open borders has always been anathema to the hegemon. Immigration is only embraced by capital when they can strictly dictate the terms.
Cameron Ramirez
how is it not liberalism?
Ryder James
Because they have no problem toppling democracies and only care about human rights when they can use them as a justification for war against other countries.
Henry Gutierrez
what do you think the government tells them they're doing?
trust me I've met CIAniggers. they're literal "centrist" retards who think they're making the world a better, more peaceful place
Nathaniel Foster
cianiggers don't actually realize they're destroying peaceful countries for oil. see
Grayson Martin
1. Saudi Arabia is one of the most powerful members of OPEC (maybe the most powerful? I don't remember), challenging them openly would instantly invite higher gasoline prices. When you punish a country economically you're punishing first and foremost its people, not its leadership, so such actions have to be used with discretion-especially with a powerful trading partner
2. Saudi Arabia's killing of a journalist is literally nothing compared to their other well known human rights abuses which have all historically been swept under the rug or otherwise ignored-and the media hasn't ever really pressured previous administrations to "do something" about it as far as I recall
3. Trump wants to put economic pressure on Iran to keep them from competing with US and Israeli hegemony in the middle east (such as in Syria) and needs Saudi oil for that.
4. We don't know what's going on behind the scenes. The Trump administration could have used this unpopular event to squeeze even more oil favors from the Saudis, as Trump himself had alluded to in a tweet a few days ago.