Friday, August 10, 2018

Saudi Arabia Is Now Weaponizing Its Wealth When It Comes To Foreign Policy

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gestures during a military parade. (photo credit:SAUDI PRESS AGENCY/REUTERS)

Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia Starts to Weaponize Its Wealth

Here’s a subject that Elon Musk might think twice before tweeting about.

Resource-rich Saudi Arabia, which in recent months amassed a $2 billion stake in the Twitter-mad billionaire’s electric-car company Tesla Inc., has declared economic war on Canada. The cause was a tweet by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, whose call for the release of social activists arrested by the Gulf monarchy earned a stunningly disproportionate response this week.

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Update: Combative Saudi foreign policy stirs international ire (France 24)

WNU Editor: Canada is having problems finding allies in its dispute with Saudi Arabia .... Canada asks for help in Saudi dispute (AFP).
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10 comments:

  1. Americanadian soldierAugust 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM

    Wouldn’t it have been nice to use that 4 plus billion dollars spent on a pipeline to build a couple of upgraders in our own country. nope we gotta ship our oil to China and buy oil back from the Saudis. Yeah that makes so much sense. Way to go Canada

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  2. AnonymousAugust 10, 2018 at 6:23 PM

    Funny how Trudeau/Freeland can speak of human rights while we trade happily with China. Oh... the HYPOCRISY!!!!!!!

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  3. jacAugust 10, 2018 at 9:11 PM

    I have a huge, huge respect of Canada, but how is it possible the people make Trudeau prime minister?

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    1. Americanadian soldierAugust 10, 2018 at 10:47 PM

      Problem is if there’s ever a conflict that curtailed our oil supply (and it’s only a matter of time) our country will grind to a halt. We have oil but not the means to refine it. Point is we will be in a very bad situation in the not too distant future that would have been 100 percent avoidable. Our enemy has us by the chestnuts and it’s all our fault.

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  8. fredAugust 11, 2018 at 10:17 AM

    The left the left
    Why did god create the left
    So smith could have a reason to exist

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