Yeah as awful as what happened to Kashoggi is, Saudi Arabia was been savagely murdering people for decades and nobody blinked.
It’s not just the Turks— this whole thing is an internal power struggle over dynastic succession with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.
Nobody making a stink about this in Congress gives a solitary shit about press freedom in Saudi Arabia. I guarantee there is some money being funneled to all those guys from some interest in Saudi Arabia opposed to the crown prince.
Very good question. I heard that a Saudi consulate in DC asked him to go to Turkey. Khashoggi should not have gone to any Saudi consulate at all--of course, this is something one learns after the fact. But he should have known better that Saudi is not some random Western country.
Given that he was a journalist and had his Iwatch recording, maybe he underestimated the severity of the situation, and simply expected to get a story about unfairness he would survive to tell.
Have you seen President Trump's vehement support of Saudi Arabia and the crown prince MbS? If I were Kashoggi, i wouldnt go anywhere near the Saudi embassy in Washington DC.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 28.9 ms ] threadIt’s not just the Turks— this whole thing is an internal power struggle over dynastic succession with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake.
Nobody making a stink about this in Congress gives a solitary shit about press freedom in Saudi Arabia. I guarantee there is some money being funneled to all those guys from some interest in Saudi Arabia opposed to the crown prince.
Can definitely empathize.
Homicides in the general population happen regularly and are taken seriously, but if a cop is murdered? That's next-level enforcement.
Humans naturally band together to protect a tribe they're a part of. Modern tribes revolve around work.
Thanks for answering my question. Seems like he fell into a trap.