Pepe Escobar — The inside story of the Saudi night of long knives

Summary:
War breaks out within the House of Saud, as Asia Times had anticipated back in July. Rumors have been swirling for months about a coup against MBS in the making. Instead, what just happened is yet another MBS pre-emptive coup.... Meanwhile, a pile-up of purges, coups and countercoups shall be the norm.... In a nutshell: a state that happens to be the private property of a royal family inimical to all principles of freedom of expression and religion, as well as the ideological matrix of all forms of Salafi-jihadism simply cannot metastasize into a “moderate” state just because MBS says so. Asia TimesThe inside story of the Saudi night of long knives Pepe Escobar

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