When prominent far right extreme figures party, the public notices.
Kushner, who negotiated with MbS on secret nuclear projects that were realized once daddy in law was in power getting 50 nuclear reactors full of weapons grade uranium to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt.
Part of that deal resulted in Trump blockading Qatar, a small slightly more Western friendly middle eastern country with a key US military base after they wouldn’t loan Kushner hefty loans for his NY real estate. What ensued still disgusts me, not only because untrustworthy allies gained nuclear secrets and a weapons program rivaling Iran, they accelerated the War in Yemen exterminating the Houthis through combined war and starvation that the US government assisted in. 80K Houthi kids at least died thanks to Kushner, Trump and MbS. That genocide was only part of the horrific interplaying disasters Kushner was responsible for facilitating.
According to one of my contacts, Kushner gave MbS the green light for imprisoning royals and other political threats that effectively facilitated a mostly bloodless coup, in what I dubbed the Ritz Carlton shakedown. In that coup, MbS grew enormously wealthy, weaponizing his corruption police to beat, torture and intimidate relatives, leaders, and reporters until ransom had been paid. Only one secondary royal died with the rest imprisoned for months leaving behind their wealth to lives less powerful.
One notable, a WaPo reporter, was able to get out of the country unmolested before later losing his head, being dismembered with a bone saw and dissolved after visiting the embassy in Turkey, Jamal Khashoggi whom the Saudi royal tracked and found via his phone. The newly ascendent crown Prince also hacked Jeff Bezos, doing so directly via a WhatsApp message the WaPo owner opened with his iPhone.
Qatar during MbS’s flexing was hit heavily by the tag team of authoritarian strongmen, Trump and MBS. Allegations were made that Qatar funded terrorists. The truth was complicated with a royal Qatari hunting group dispatched to Iraq, kidnapped and held for ransom until the blackmail was paid. When it was, the royals were handed over not by terrorists, but by the Iraqi military themselves which has a certain degree of alignment with Saudi Arabia, with the Iraqi government pocketing the ransom and MbS/Trump using that to claim falsely Qatar supported terrorists and thus needed to also shut down Al-Jazeera, the only media outlet in the Middle East that covers stories MbS doesn’t want known.
So yeah.
Kushner, Elon, Qatar, futbol.