Olivia of Troye - The Saudi Favor That Endangers America
I’ve been in those rooms. I’ve watched career intelligence professionals present hard, uncomfortable truths in real time, only to have them dismissed because they got in the way of someone’s “relationship” with a foreign leader. This week’s Oval Office moment with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) wasn’t just déjà vu. It was a warning.
When Trump shrugged off U.S. intelligence about MBS’s awareness of Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder, “things happen,” he didn’t just minimize the assassination of a U.S. resident and Washington Post journalist. He told every autocrat watching:
If you’re good to him, financially, politically, or personally, your worst behavior will be forgiven.
This is not neutrality. This is impunity.
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