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This was fun: US Commerce Sec Lutnick justifies tariffs using Kuwait: "we spent $ 100 billion to free" them any they have super high tariffs, unfair.

The podcasters fawn over him.

Oooopsie, in reality, the Gulf War was mostly paid for by other countries (Kuwait, Germany, Japan, etc.), with the US putting up about $ 9 B out of a total of around $ 62 B (Wikipedia et al).

We were mercenaries.

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Despite this, workers welcome the new shelter with caution, as shelters are often seen as a precursor to detention rather than a safe haven. Existing shelter services are primarily focused on repatriating workers, rather than providing justice and support for reintegration. #Kuwait

Here #MBS openly bribes/pays #Trump / #MusKKK salaries along with their #Republican #DeathCult and somehow the #BrainTrust here in the #USA sells this as us being tough on #SaudiArabia / #GCC / #UAE / #Quatar / #Oman / #Kuwait / #Bahrain ☠️⚰️🪦
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Mastodon server hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark. Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸 (@Peter_Link@expressional.social)How Trump and Netanyahu forced #MohammedBinSalman to draw a line on #Palestine Statements by Washington and Tel Aviv endorsing ethnic cleansing have forced #Saudi foreign policy to revert back to the Arab nationalist days... from #MiddleEastEye #MEE by David Hearst 10 February 2025 11:03 GMT [Hopefully, #Trump and #Netanyahu’s arrogance is going to cost them in a big way.] https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/saudi-arabia-israel-trump-netanyahu-forced-bin-salman-draw-line-palestine “A covert relationship claimed by Benjamin Netanyahu with #SaudiArabia, ...has been unraveling in a matter of days.” "Trump also bragged that Saudi Arabia would normalise with #Israel without a #Palestinian state..." "It took Riyadh just 45 minutes to reply in what has become known as the dawn statement." [...] "“His Royal Highness emphasised that Saudi Arabia will continue its relentless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and will not establish relations with Israel without that.”" #media #news #press #US #USA #MBS @palestine@a.gup.pe