The people standing up now to melodramatically and boldly sever their ties with the Saudi regime are, in fact, making clear that they've had long-standing, deep ties to that regime as it murdered dissidents and destroyed Yemen - stopping now because the PR costs became too high:https://twitter.com/freedomrideblog/status/1050552714046922753 …
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Replying to @ggreenwald
NYT was literally sponsoring an investment conference in Saudi Arabia, then today it was all like, no more!
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I predict things will all go back to normal within 3-6 months. MBS will spin some tale about how rogue elements did this, they'll punish a scapegoat, and then the spigots will flow again. He'll be back in DC & Silicon Valley in no time, and they'll b back in Riyadh.
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Bernardo Jurema 🌹 Retweeted Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi thinks this could well be a critical juncturehttps://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1050744397015523328?s=21 …
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