30 July 2019

Bosom Buddies

Vanity Fair published a well reported and very disturbing article yesterday (link here) about how the theocratic Saudi government uses kidnapping and murder to silence dissidents and critics.

That news broke around the same time as word from Russia about how Vladimir Putin's best known critic, the jailed Alexey Navalny, has been hospitalized with a suspected poisoning (details here).

Given how much Donald Trump sucks up to both the Saudi royal family and to the Russian dictator, we can expect he'll say nothing about either of these and, if asked about them, will attack the questioner and then go on to praise the brutal thug.

Both Saudi Arabia and Russia are relentlessly anti-democratic. Dissent is punished as are LGBT residents. And sometimes people are even killed. It's telling that Trump has aligned himself with people like this.

It's likely, at the heart of this, Trump owes considerable sums to both Russian and Saudi lenders, to the tune of hundreds of millions. Why else is he fighting to hide his tax returns, which could reveal this. So he'll suck up to Russia and the Saudis, no matter what they do to people and how much they work against the interest of the United States.

This is one of the many reasons why Trump must be defeated in the election that's fifteen months away.

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