BETWEEN THE WORLD OF MEN AND MAKE-BELIVE

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“According to the Washington Post, Trump launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran posed no imminent threat to America, and wouldn’t for at least another decade. But Netanyahu has been trying to get an American president to attack Iran for decades and failed every time, until finally both Trump and Jared decided they wanted more billions from Saudi Arabia, who wanted us to strike Iran, too. Why would Trump do what every other past American president has refused to do? It might have something to do with the Saudi Public Investment Fund controlled by MBS investing $2 billion in the private equity firm of his son-in-law Jared Kushner before the war started, and that Kushner has collected more than $110 million from the Saudi government since 2021, according to a bipartisan Senate and House report released March 19th. He’s also in the process of rustling up another five or $6 billion from the region. And the New York Times reported that Saudi dictator MBS saw an “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East with himself in charge, and he has been actively pushing Trump to do his dirty work and use American troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive out the Iranian government entirely. He’s even reportedly assured Trump the spike in oil prices will be temporary, a claim most economists flatly reject and is now absurd given that the Straight Hormuz is shut.”